HONG KONG (CNN) - Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong school children will be getting an early start to their Lunar New Year holiday as the city's education authorities ordered the closure of all kindergartens and primary schools to fight an outbreak of flu. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Regulators Send Warnings to Non-Compliant Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Regulators in Hong Kong have issued a strict warning to exchanges doing business with Chinese customers about trading tokens deemed as securities. In an announcement today, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said it has sent letters to ... ( read original story ...)
British banker Rurik Jutting fails to overturn double murder conviction in Hong Kong court
Rurik Jutting, the British banker jailed for life in Hong Kong for brutally murdering two Indonesian women ... was refused,” Lunn said in a brief court hearing as he broke the news to Jutting. Despite initially pledging not to appeal against his ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC: One rate adjustment enough for BSP
Hong Kong-based Frederic Neumann, managing director and cohead of Asian economic research at HSBC, said in a press chat on Friday that despite heightened jitters in the past few weeks, inflation rate in the Philippines could average at 3.7 percent this ... ( read original story ...)
Asylum seekers who housed Edward Snowden in Hong Kong claim police illegally targeted them but force denies doing so
Lawyers representing asylum seekers who helped American whistle-blower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong on Thursday claimed local police targeted them instead of looking into their concerns that Sri Lankan authorities were hunting them down in the city. ( read original story ...)
From Coca-Cola to Cathay Pacific, Swire Pacific’s five major businesses in Hong Kong
one would find it almost impossible to escape the influence of this Hong Kong conglomerate whose sprawling business empire spans five sectors. Butterfield and Swire, a trading company then headquartered in Liverpool, founded its Hong Kong branch in 1870. ( read original story ...)
Global Markets Summer Analyst – Hong Kong – November/2017 – HSBC
For those on WSO with some entrepreneurial spirit- this is a guest post/syndication from Dan Andrews of tropicalmba.com- an entrepreneur who I have a lot of respect for and have a learned a ton from over the last few years from via his blog/podcasts. ( read original story ...)
Tencent-backed We Doctor scales up to prepare for planned Hong Kong IPO
We Doctor, the Tencent-backed Chinese online healthcare services firm, has completed internal business integration (in Chinese) and scaled up its four verticals—medical cloud, healthcare, medicine, and insurance. The company is also raising $500 million ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong ex-cardinal warns against Vatican-China deal
HONG KONG – Hong Kong's retired archbishop has warned that a deal between the Vatican and China that cedes too much power to Beijing would place the country's Catholic followers in a big "birdcage." Cardinal Joseph Zen said Friday that the Holy See ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong court rejects UK banker’s double murder appeal
HONG KONG (AP) — A Hong Kong court on Friday rejected a British banker's appeal of his conviction in the gruesome murders of two Indonesian women. Three Court of Appeal judges said in their decision that Rurik Jutting's appeal had no merit. Jutting is ... ( read original story ...)
Deadly outbreak: Hong Kong schools shut down amid flu outbreak
Some 203 adults and 12 children developed severe complications after becoming infected, The South China Morning Post reported Australian expat Alexis Galloway, 33, who lives in Hong Kong with her husband and three young children, told news.com.au she had ... ( read original story ...)
Wilting sales for Hong Kong florists ahead of Lunar New Year as interest in festive blooms fades
While Lunar New Year decorations typically include plants and flowers that symbolise luck and good fortune, florists in Hong Kong expect overall sales to droop compared to last year, with some estimating earnings to fall by up to 30 per cent. Those who ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police search for masked man who abandoned young boy in Kowloon Park
A young boy believed to be disabled was found abandoned in a Hong Kong park on Tuesday, prompting police to investigate whether he was brought from mainland China and dumped in the city. Police were searching for a masked man who was captured by security ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong regulator says to crack down on cryptocurrency exchanges for rule violations
HONG KONG (REUTERS) - Hong Kong regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said on Friday (Feb 9) it would crack down on cryptocurrency exchanges that operate in the Asian financial hub without a licence or violate local securities laws. ( read original story ...)