Albert Wong urges start-ups to focus on pitching practical applications of products, amid Sino-US tensions and rivalry over AI.
Beijing AI firm to establish global headquarters in Hong Kong, hold IPO in city
A Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider is preparing to list in Hong Kong and set up its international headquarters in the city, a minister has said, while vowing to attract ...
HK Investment Corp chips in with strategic deal
Financial Secretary Paul Chan said on Friday a strategic partnership between the government-backed investment firm and a mainland chipmaker will ...
Hong Kong investment arm backs Chinese RISC-V start-up StarFive in tech push
Shanghai-based semiconductor start-up StarFive aims to boost adoption of its chips with the financial backing of the Hong Kong government, according to its founder, as China bets on the open-source ...
Stanford, Harvard grads seek jobs with China’s DeepSeek, founder says
That’s a sea change from years past, when it was challenging to hire engineers even from Chinese universities, said Victor Huang.
Ascendis’ China joint venture, Visen Pharmaceuticals, prices $86M Hong Kong IPO
Visen Pharmaceuticals, a biotech developing much of Ascendis Pharma’s endocrine-related disease pipeline for the China market, will go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Friday.
Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, is in hot water
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s business empire is in the crosshairs after CK Hutchison Holdings chose to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a consortium that includes U.S. investment firm BlackRock ...
Starlink in the Pacific and Baidu’s PR headache
Since the emergence of DeepSeek, Chinese AI has grabbed headlines and been the talk of tech bosses around the globe. However, venture investors in China seem to be in no hurry to ink deals as the ...
Hong Kong’s richest man, Li Ka-shing, is in hot water over his company’s Panama Ports deal
Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s business empire is in the crosshairs after CK Hutchison Holdings chose to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a consortium that includes U.S. investment firm BlackRock ...
Hong Kong draws Chinese AI companies from CloudWalk to iFlyTek as city pivots to tech
Executives from several companies expressed confidence in Hong Kong's growing role in supporting China's AI development Hong Kong is an attractive regional hub for mainland Chinese artificial ...
Hong Kong bids farewell to Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong’s second-richest billionaire who ‘knew how to spend’
Property tycoon Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong’s second-richest billionaire with a US$30 billion fortune and a legacy of philanthropy, has passed away at age 97, drawing tributes from across the city.
Hong Kong’s second-richest billionaire Lee Shau Kee revealed the burdens of extreme wealth
Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong’s second richest billionaire, once shared in his biography that extreme wealth had brought him many troubles.
Hong Kong’s leader swipes at Trump but avoids criticism of tycoon’s deal to sell Panama Port assets
Hong Kong’s leader says his government opposes coercion by foreign governments, an allusion to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, but stopped short of criticizing a prominent local ...
Hong Kong property tycoon Lee Shau Kee dies at 97
Hong Kong property magnate Lee Shau Kee, one of the city’s richest men, died on Monday at the age of 97, Henderson Land, the group that he founded, said in a statement.