While another round of consumption vouchers is welcome, there are concerns money is being wasted on emigrants and not leveraged in the fight against Covid-19 The vouchers should be a financial ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Dollar’s Slide to Two-Year Low Is About to Get Worse
The Hong Kong dollar is poised for steeper losses as impending Federal Reserve rate hikes exacerbate capital outflows triggered by the deadliest Covid outbreak in the city.Most Read from ... ( read original story ...)
UPDATE 1-Hong Kong’s tough COVID curbs hobble its green finance ambitions
Hong Kong's ambition to become a hub for green and sustainable business is under threat as its persistent tough border controls against COVID-19 make the task of attracting senior specialists harder ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bet on zero-Covid. Now it’s facing a ‘preventable disaster’
By Julia Hollingsworth, Wayne Chang, Elizabeth Yee, Ivan Watson and Teele Rebane, CNN Morgues are nearly at capacity, hospitals overwhelmed and, as fears ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of East Asia to sell non-life insurance businesses to AIA for $278 mln
HONG KONG — Bank of East Asia (BEA) said late on Friday it has agreed to sell its non-life insurance and healthcare services businesses to a unit of AIA Group Ltd for an aggregate HK$2.168 billion ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Infection Rate; Bali Set to Reopen: Virus Update
About 15% of Hong Kong’s population may have been infected by Covid-19, local media reported, citing estimates by a professor advising the government on the pandemic. ( read original story ...)
What are Hong Kong’s priorities in fighting latest COVID-19 wave?
Provided by Xinhua Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region HKSAR Carrie Lam said that the current priority for the governmen ... ( read original story ...)
Leaving Hong Kong: UK’s property boom is turbocharged by influx of city’s BN(O) migrants
London, Manchester and Birmingham among preferred destinations for Hongkongers moving to UK; property prices up as much as 11.5 per cent in hottest locations Nearly 104,000 eligible Hongkongers ... ( read original story ...)
PwC says IPOs in mainland, HK active
Technology, media and telecommunications firms on the Chinese mainland remained active in the domestic capital market in the second half of last year, a report from global accounting firm PwC stated. ( read original story ...)
HSBC Securities reprimanded by HK exchange for BCAN errors
HSBC Securities engages in Northbound Trading of China Connect Securities. The exchange has advised all participants to review their current set up and adopt appropriate measures to strengthen their ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Distress Signals Are Rising
With some kind of lockdown and grim isolation centers looming, the city shows signs of trauma. Two years into the pandemic and counting, the biggest toll may be psychological. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong retail chains ration staples
Two of Hong Kong’s largest consumer retail chains started rationing some food and drug items to curb panic buying that has plagued the city over the past week amid fears of a citywide lockdown as ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong now has the world’s highest Covid-19 death rate. What happened, and how can this be fixed?
Focus falls on elderly population, with calls for government to streamline procedures and channel resource to vulnerable, undervaccinated demographic. ( read original story ...)
Jackie Chan does his part to help Hong Kong in COVID-19 fight
International star Jackie Chan does his part for Hong Kong by donating medical supplies as the city battles a fifth wave of COVID-19. According to reports, the 67-year-old star donated 100,000 boxes ... ( read original story ...)