Here's the industry's opinion, as told to Business Insider Intelligence: "With Hong Kong being the eminent financial center in Asia, and highly profitable for banks here, the virtual banking licenses ... ( read original story ...)
Investors pile into Viva Biotech’s Hong Kong IPO as they are confident of the R&D services provider’s business model
Not only is the firm profit-making, but its investment in potential drug candidates has made it attractive to investors, says Louis Tse Ming Kwong of VC Asset Management Viva’s business model of ... ( read original story ...)
Havoc in Hong Kong Legislature Over Extradition Bill
But opposition lawmakers, rights groups, lawyers’ associations, foreign governments and prominent voices in Hong Kong’s powerful business community have expressed concern that the extradition bill ... ( read original story ...)
Lawmaker taken to hospital after brawl in Hong Kong legislature
HONG KONG — Scuffles broke out in Hong Kong‘s legislature on Saturday between pro-democracy lawmakers and those loyal to Beijing over a proposed extradition law that will extend Beijing’s ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Says Pigs Must Be Culled Before China Supply Resumes
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong must cull all pigs in a slaughterhouse where one was found infected with the African Swine virus before supply from China can be resumed, the city’s authorities said on Sunday ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Property Prices to Rise for a Decade, Says UBS
Prices are set to rise for another decade in the world’s least affordable property market, Hong Kong, according to UBS Group AG. Inflows of residents will be key as the Greater Bay Area project ... ( read original story ...)
Unstoppable Hong Kong property tipped for decade more of gains
HONG KONG (May 10): Prices are set to rise for another decade in the world’s least affordable property market, Hong Kong, according to UBS Group AG. Inflows of residents will be key as the Greater Bay ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong lawmakers fight over extradition law
Fighting erupted in Hong Kong's legislature on Saturday over planned changes to the law allowing suspects to be sent to mainland China for trial. Several lawmakers were injured and one was taken to ... ( read original story ...)
Life insurers: Where to play for value in Asia–Pacific
McKinsey has performed thorough analyses of countries across ... For years, visitors from mainland China have flocked to Hong Kong to buy life and health insurance. This segment accounts for more than ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong legislators brawl over contentious extradition law
Even Hong Kong’s normally conservative business community has expressed opposition. The International Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, said the bill had “gross inadequacies” and would put ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s hidden youth: societal pressure driving city’s young into apathy and reclusiveness
Nearly half of youngsters feel ‘despair’ if they can’t post on social media: study Tung, who preferred not to give her full name, is among 140,000 young people in Hong Kong in similar situations, ... ( read original story ...)
Chaotic scenes at Hong Kong legislature over extradition law
HONG KONG - There have been chaotic scenes at Hong Kong’s legislative assembly as lawmakers for and against controversial amendments to the territory’s extradition law clashed over access to the ... ( read original story ...)
AB InBev’s Asia business files for Hong Kong IPO of at least $5 billion: sources
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Asia business of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, filed on Friday a draft prospectus for an initial public offering (IPO), which two sources with ... ( read original story ...)
Hang Seng Bank to be prudent
Chairman Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung expects Hong Kong's GDP to fall 0.6 percentage point to 2... Hang Seng Bank (0011) said it will be more prudent amid the Sino-US trade war and maintain a progressive ... ( read original story ...)