Pork processor WH Group and BOC Hong Kong Holdings led the index losers, each falling by at least 4.6 per cent. The CSI 300 Index of biggest stocks in Shanghai and Shenzhen slipped 0.9 per cent. The ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong court convicts media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other activists over peaceful protest
Hong Kong (CNN Business)A Hong Kong court has convicted pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai and eight other prominent opposition activists over their roles in an unauthorized assembly at the height ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese consumer tech firm Energy Monster goes public
Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited are the lead underwriters. Energy Monster’s pre-IPO backers include SoftBank Ventures ... ( read original story ...)
Singapore closes in on Hong Kong as arbitration centre
But Singapore has more recently stepped up efforts to present itself as an alternative financial centre to Hong Kong. These include launching a corporate structure designed to lure funds from areas ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong election reforms: overhaul to start with hefty powers for committee that picks city’s leader
Beijing’s plans for a drastic overhaul of Hong Kong’s electoral system will start with the Election Committee that selects the chief executive being given considerable powers to nominate all ... ( read original story ...)
Barron’s
Hong Kong is too important a market to ignore. But so are the city’s emerging business risks. I expect to witness steady erosion of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s political ... ( read original story ...)
Dozens of Hong Kong-listed companies suspend trading on earnings delay
Shares of around 50 Hong Kong-listed companies were suspended from trading on Thursday, according to stock exchange filings. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders, one of them 82, face possible 5-year sentences for organizing a march
Hong Kong activist on China's latest move 02:08 Hong Kong — Seven of Hong Kong's leading pro-democracy advocates, including a media tycoon and an 82-year-old veteran of the movement, were convicted ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong account haunts defence minister
FRESH revelations linking minister of defence and veterans affairs Peter Vilho to an offshore bank account in Hong Kong have brought to the fore a decade-old corruption case, which has haunted the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong and China test cross-border digital yuan, says PBoC official
China has completed its first cross-border pilots of the digital yuan with Hong Kong. Wang Xin, director of the People’s Bank of China research bureau, said that the Hong Kong Monetary Authority ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong court convicts veteran activists over 2019 protests
A Hong Kong court has convicted some of the city’s most senior pro-democracy figures, including media mogul Jimmy Lai, of unauthorised assembly during protests in 2019, in the latest indication of the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Tycoons Emerge as Losers From Xi’s Election Revamp
Hong Kong’s top 19 wealthiest people have a combined net worth ... Most of them made money starting out in the property business. In an interview this week, Leung Chun-ying, who served as the chief ... ( read original story ...)
The Latest: Hong Kong to resume use of BioNTech-Pfizer shots
Hong Kong will resume administering the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday following a 12-day suspension over packaging defects detected in one batch ... ( read original story ...)
Veteran Hong Kong democracy leaders convicted over 2019 protests in landmark case
A Hong Kong court found seven prominent democrats guilty of unauthorized assembly charges, including 82-year-old barrister Martin Lee and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, 72, the latest blow to the city's ... ( read original story ...)