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 ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong delivery workers in short supply as logistic firms, online retailers face mounting pressure amid panic buying spree
E-commerce platform HKTVmall struggles to make deliveries as workers test positive for coronavirus, placed in quarantine. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong cuts interval for Sinovac jabs for care home residents as another 52,523 new cases are confirmed across city
Hong Kong has cut the recommended interval between the first and second dose of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine for care home residents from four weeks to three, as the city battles a worsening ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s elderly vaccine refuseniks unmoved by soaring Covid deaths
Covid-19 may be running rampant through Hong Kong, where fatality rates are among the highest in the developed world, but 80-year-old Ho Yau-lin is in no hurry to get vaccinated. Ho is scared of ... ( read original story ...)
Mainland expert highlights Hong Kong’s priorities in fighting COVID-19 epidemic
A team of mainland health experts led by Liang Wannian, head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under China's National Health Commission, agreed that reducing the mortality in severe cases is the ... ( read original story ...)