As a leading international financial centre, Hong Kong is a premier business hub for companies expanding business in Asia and tapping into fast-growing opportunities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau ...
Standard Chartered needs drastic action, not diplomatic polish
Higher dividends — the bank yields less than 3 per cent — and more share buybacks would help. But with current common equity tier one capital ratio in the middle of its targeted range of 13-14 per ...
Hong Kong stocks erase losses as Tencent, Alibaba, Galaxy set Year of the Dragon trading on winning course
Local stocks are eyeing a winning start to the Year of the Dragon as gains in Tencent, Alibaba and Galaxy overcome early jitters. Chinese firms suffer the brunt of deletions in MSCI’s latest review of ...
How Hong Kong independent bookstores are in flux amid closures – but it’s not all doom and gloom
Recent months have seen well-known independent bookstores close in Hong Kong after they were suspected of breaking various laws, but novel business models are seeing new ones emerge.
CEO of a $19 billion UK bank with business in Hong Kong since the Victorian age sees a ‘lack of confidence’ unraveling China’s economy
CEO of a $19 billion UK bank with business in Hong Kong since the Victorian age sees a ‘lack of confidence’ unraveling China’s economy ...
Hong Kong Lunar New Year bounce boosts restaurants, but 1 owner says he will close outlets because of gloomy economic outlook
On the first day of the Year of the Dragon, an estimated 44,000 revellers were drawn by the return of the annual Lunar New Year parade, lining the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui to enjoy the extravaganza of ...
Old Hong Kong has no future? Good, merge it with Shenzhen
The status of the city as an outpost of the imperial West, and as a wedge against mainland China after 1997, has come to an end. Its bright future is to be another Chinese city, but not just Someone ...
Hong Kong must be ready as global businesses continue to follow money trail to China
Readers discuss why pessimistic predictions about Hong Kong need not come to pass, and the city's enactment of its own national security law Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of ...
Why did Michelle Yeoh’s first marriage to Dickson Poon end? The Malaysian megastar finally wed motorsports mogul Jean Todt in 2023, but remains close to Hong Kong’s …
Hong Kong business magnate and movie producer Dickson Poon met the actress during filming for Yes, Madam in 1985 - the pair married in 1988 and never had children Despite divorcing after just 4 years, ...
Hong Kong Lunar New Year bounce boosts restaurants, but one owner says he will close outlets because of gloomy economic outlook
Restaurateurs say Lunar New Year business 'exceptionally good', especially for Chinese restaurants But Ray Chui, chairman of Kam Lee Holdings, says eight of his 42 restaurants are slated for closure ...
Over 1,500 visitors depart Hong Kong after Lunar New Year fireworks under extended crossing hours to prevent overcrowding
Authorities extended opening hours at Lo Wu and Shenzhen Bay crossings to avoid repeat of scenes of stranded mainland Chinese tourists after New Year's Eve Lawmaker Edward Lau praises 'smooth and ...
Thousands of worshippers throng to Hong Kong’s Che Kung Temple in search of good health, peace in Lunar New Year
Devotees light incense sticks before Che Kung statue and thank deity for tiding them over Covid pandemic 'I pray to Che Kung every year, and thanks to Che Kung my life has been without many challenges ...
Fall-out from Lionel Messi’s Hong Kong no-show is anything but friendly
Non-students of Spanish football history might have been a bit befuddled by the fuss over Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo calling Athletic Club “Bilbao” last week – when they’re from Bilbao.
‘Shabby’ Hong Kong vs shining Shanghai lights, debate rages online over which city looks better after dark
It is an argument that will almost certainly never be settled, but a list that places Hong Kong among the top three in the world in terms nighttime aesthetics has reignited the debate over which city ...