Category: BUSINESS

Positive economic data and new year’s spirit lifted both the Hong Kong and mainland markets as the first trading day of 2017 closed, but analysts warned more uncertainties lie ahead in the new year than in 2016. The Hang Seng Index (HSI) opened slightly ... ( read original story ...)

In 2012 he apologised for separate allegations that he accepted inappropriate gifts from business friends in the form of trips on luxury yachts and private jets. The trial comes at a time when residents are losing faith in Hong Kong's leaders, as a string ... ( read original story ...)

... they loathe in Hong Kong Chinese is their complete lack of empathy for the world outside of Hong Kong. The serial inability of government and business leaders to make decisive policy changes to arrest a downward spiralling economy is a laughable ... ( read original story ...)

Wildlife campaigners have urged Hong Kong authorities to fast-track the phasing out of the city’s ivory trade, warning of a surge in illegal business after the mainland announced a total ban within a year. WWF Hong Kong yesterday contrasted Beijing’s ... ( read original story ...)

The consultancy McKinsey & Co. is reportedly tracking more than 2,000 ... similar to the United Kingdom, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. ( read original story ...)

SHANGHAI: Hong Kong shares rose around 1 percent on Friday, but the main indexes ended 2016 near where they started after a volatile 12 months, punctuated by Britain's vote to leave the European Union and Donald Trump's triumph in the U.S. presidential ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong and mainland stocks opened slightly higher on Friday, the final trading session of 2016, shrugging off the declines in US equity markets. The Hang Seng Index opened up 0.13 per cent or 28 points at 21,818.91, and the Hang Seng China Enterprises ... ( read original story ...)

If you'd like to see how the 1 per cent fly, then business class on Cathay's new A350 is the way to go. THE AIRLINE Cathay Pacific THE ROUTE Hong Kong to Auckland, New Zealand. THE PLANE Airbus A350-900, the world's newest aircraft. The aircraft carries ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG From her 49th-floor office at Central Plaza, Hong Kong's third-tallest building, Gigi Chao juggles three roles as a business executive, philanthropist and one of Asia's most prominent gay rights activists. Although her billionaire father ... ( read original story ...)

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REUTERS/Tyrone Siu BEIJING (Reuters) - Quoting a poem by the founder of Communist China Mao Zedong, China's government said on Wednesday that the efforts by Hong Kong and Taiwan independence supporters to link up were doomed to fail, as they would be ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and The Stock Exchange ... The Board has been actively exploring other business opportunities in order to diversify the existing business of the Group and to explore new markets with growth potentials. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong startup Ampd Energy has launched an energy storage system called Ampd Silo uses that can store electricity when power is available and use it when there's an outage. The company's system aims to function by connecting with the power grid ... ( read original story ...)

Among the new tenants in one nondescript industrial building is Hong Kong X-Tech Startup Platform, which Shen created earlier in 2016 to kick-start innovation in the city, partnering with a group of Hong Kong-based professors and the heads of its top three ... ( read original story ...)