Category: BUSINESS

Huge security operation Much of Wan Chai, a bustling business district in the city center where Xi will stay, is on partial lockdown, with 300, 2-ton barricades erected on roads around the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The venue will host ... ( read original story ...)

While in Hong Kong, Xi will spend little time near the public. Much of Wan Chai, a bustling business district in the city center where Xi is staying, is on partial lockdown, with 300, 2-ton barricades erected on roads around the Hong Kong Convention and ... ( read original story ...)

But the city has paid a price for embracing more democracy. The Hong Kong government has become less efficient and more divided than in the colonial era. An anti-business, anti-development and anti-mainland China ideology permeates debates in the ... ( read original story ...)

Huge security operation Much of Wan Chai, a bustling business district in the city center where Xi will stay, is on partial lockdown, with 300, 2-ton barricades erected on roads around the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The venue will host ... ( read original story ...)

The world’s second-largest economy no longer needs Hong Kong’s business acumen or its money. China’s economy was just five times larger than the territory’s before the handover. Now it’s more than 35 times bigger. "On the express train of a ... ( read original story ...)

Huge security operation Much of Wan Chai, a bustling business district in the city center where Xi will stay, is on partial lockdown, with 300, 2-ton barricades erected on roads around the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The venue will host ... ( read original story ...)

Number two in flows of goods, services, and finance, says the McKinsey Global Institute. Our students are among the highest performers in the world. Hong Kong students ranked second in mathematics and reading, and ninth in science, in the widely regarded ... ( read original story ...)

Privately owned vehicles are often blamed for chronic traffic congestion, especially in the prime business and retail centres. To curb the growth of private car numbers, some people have called for the introduction of electronic road pricing in Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

His wife has already secured citizenship there through an investment visa scheme and Tam plans to cash out his Hong Kong pension pot and start a business selling Hong Kong snacks. Tam is one of a growing number of people in the city looking for an exit. ( read original story ...)

Lerado said in a June 7 filing that the company is carrying on with its business and doesn’t expect the share suspension to have a material adverse effect on its daily operations. The broader Hong Kong market was resilient to the declines on Tuesday ... ( read original story ...)

Chinese Vice-President Li Yuanchao said on Tuesday that Hong Kong had an irreplaceable role to play in national development, urging the city to divert energy from political controversies to economic issues. In a meeting with a delegation of Hong Kong ... ( read original story ...)

Since its official launch in July last year, incubator Hong Kong X-Tech Startup Platform, is already working on 20 projects, according to Professor Chen Guanhua of the University of Hong Kong, a co-founder of the incubator. The platform, which offers ... ( read original story ...)

Andrew Burns, Britain’s first consul general to Hong Kong after the 1997 handover, spoke to a business audience in the days before he retired in 2000. Erudite and amusing in equal measure, he asked himself what he would say in summary about Hong Kong’s ... ( read original story ...)

Lancaster has been based in Hong Kong working for CLP for the past 25 years. “Hong Kong is a fantastic hub for doing business ... within five hours from Hong Kong one can access almost half the world’s population,” said the Australian industry ... ( read original story ...)