Category: BUSINESS

Hong Kong’s residential market continues to be red hot as rents for private flats hit another new high in the second quarter this year. Average cost for renting a second-hand flat rose as much as 2.9 per cent on quarter to HK$35.10 per square foot during ... ( read original story ...)

A popular Hong Kong-based dim sum restaurant, Tim Ho Wan, decided to shut down its business in Malaysia on July 4 after entering the Malaysian market three years ago. When explaining the decision to Hong Kong media outlets, the founder of the Michelin ... ( read original story ...)

He shared photos and thoughts about his time in Kowloon Walled City with Business Insider. Though Hong Kong had been under British rule for decades by the time construction began, a clause in an 1842 treaty meant China still owned the property that would ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong media giant Next Digital Group Limited announced on Monday ... “This deal has marked the accomplishment of the transformation for Next Digital Group’s media business from print to digital,” group chief executive Cheung Ka-shing wrote ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong digital marketer Priyanka Gothi watched her mother struggle with forced retirement after decades working as a school teacher in India. “She is one of the most active people that I know; you can’t pin her down in one place, you literally have ... ( read original story ...)

Reading books about history how he likes to relax, he said, despite his formal training in chemical engineering in the US, and a relentless focus on Hong Kong’s business future. Chow, born and raised in Hong Kong, has spent the past 25 years working in ... ( read original story ...)

Since leaving investment banking six years ago, I set up and invested in a number of businesses, and was always frustrated by the lack of fundraising options available to SMEs. Banks would say they have SME lending schemes but usually wouldn’t even ... ( read original story ...)

In a digital era when you can easily store and delete pictures by just pressing a few buttons on your computer, smartphone or digital camera, a photography enthusiasthas opted for a rather old-fashioned method of documenting his life, and those of others. ( read original story ...)

This is the third year that the RISE conference has been in Hong Kong and I can say with confidence that it is now the largest and most exciting startup conference in Asia. RISE is produced by the same team behind Web Summit (Paddy Cosgrave and co.) and ... ( read original story ...)

There’s surely not many places that Gianluca Vialli can go without being accosted by fans. He won almost every trophy there is to win as a football star with Sampdoria, Juventus and Chelsea. But at the Rise tech conference in Hong Kong, he’s just one ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG - Around 14,000 startup founders, investors and media figures from about 90 countries gathered at the RISE 2017 event in Hong Kong on Tuesday to discuss ways to build Asia's "new economy" with new technologies. Being held in Hong Kong for the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG -- On a small green stage dubbed “PITCH,” one of three judges posed a sharp question to Sunny Choi, chief operations officer of Yana Trip, a travel startup from South Korea, after Choi’s presentation about her company at the RISE 2017 event ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong-based startup CompareAsiaGroup has secured $50 million in funding from investors led by the World Bank's commercial lending arm, as the personal finance management platform looks to develop its technology and launch more ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG ─ The trendiest startups and most successful companies have gathered in this Asian city to inspire the world at the RISE 2017 conference from Tuesday through Thursday. "For the next three days, there'll be more than 250 speakers, not just here ... ( read original story ...)