Dongchun worked for McKinsey and Company for over eight years, providing counsel to financial institutions and industrial conglomerates. He brings with him a background in investment banking and private equity from Salomon Smith Barney in Hong Kong and ... ( read original story ...)
Ex-McKinsey Strategy Consultant Highlights Role of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to Counter Cyber Security Threats in Real Time
He has presented his workshops in Singapore, Hong Kong, Sao Paulo, Seoul ... and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in ... ( read original story ...)
Resistance to AI is futile, so let’s enjoy being useless, controversial author Feng Tang says
So from medicine he moved into business, spending nine years at consulting firm McKinsey and several more at Chinese state-owned giants like China Resource Group and Citic. He now lives in Hong Kong, where he divides his time being writing and investing. ( read original story ...)
amaBhungane & Scorpio #GuptaLeaks: How Anoj Singh sang for his supper
Instead, Regiments effectively elbowed McKinsey out of the way and took over the job ... According to this, the CSR kickbacks would be diverted from JJ Trading to an Essa company in Hong Kong. Singh declined to explain. Not two weeks after Singh returned ... ( read original story ...)
AIS keen to handle cloud services for local firms
AIS resells Microsoft's cloud-based services, Azure and Office 365, and provides a direct internet link with Microsoft's data centres in Singapore and Hong Kong. It also offers ... and thus has lots of room to grow. McKinsey & Co associate partner Harry ... ( read original story ...)
A bloated civil service and naked civil servants
Now you could protest that Singapore and Hong Kong are small city states but what about Taiwan ... we still had to spend thousands contracting McKinsey to write our Education Blueprint! Were there no Malaysians capable of writing our own Education Blueprint? ( read original story ...)
The bloated civil service
Now you could protest that Singapore and Hong Kong are small city states ... we still had to spend thousands contracting consulting firm McKinsey to write our Education Blueprint! Were there no Malaysians capable of writing our own Education Blueprint? ( read original story ...)
Alphabet Inc (GOOGL) Is Hiring Artificial Intelligence Specialists in China
according to McKinsey. Google’s run in China has not been smooth. The U.S. firm departed the mainland in 2010, redirecting mainland users to an unfiltered Hong Kong site. Google’s search engine and other services such as Gmail were blocked in the ... ( read original story ...)
Asean-HK trade pact agreed
HONG KONG: Hong Kong and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations announced on Saturday that they had concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement and related investment pact. Asean and mainland China have had a free trade agreement in ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong student leaders take defiant stand on poster taunting education official over son’s death
Hong Kong student leaders on Friday refused to condemn a poster taunting the city’s education undersecretary, whose son committed suicide, saying the people behind the message were exercising their freedom of speech. The stance taken by the student ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund has a case to answer in its defence of the dollar’s peg
Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund surprisingly issued additional debt papers of HK$40 billion (US$5 billion) in August, supposedly to absorb excess liquidity in the banking system. However, the Hong Kong dollar had been trading on the weak side of the peg ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Dollar Surges Most in 1 1/2 Years, Boosting Developers
The greenback’s slide is proving too much for even the pegged Hong Kong dollar, which is heading for its biggest two-day gain against the U.S. currency since January 2016. Hong Kong’s dollar jumped 0.07 percent to HK$7.8080 against its U.S. counterpart ... ( read original story ...)
Chinese online insurer ZhongAn wins HK approval for $1 billion IPO: sources
The company plans to start gauging investor appetite for the IPO as soon as Monday after receiving the nod from the listing committee of the Hong Kong stock exchange, added the sources. It plans to launch the IPO and take orders from investors on Sept. ( read original story ...)
Cape Breton radio station surprises loyal Hong Kong listener with lobster lunch
A Maritimer living in Hong Kong recently got a taste of home after a Cape Breton radio station went the extra mile to make a special delivery to a loyal listener. Glace Bay native Carolyn Andrews has been teaching in Hong Kong for more than 20 years but ... ( read original story ...)