Chinese battery startup Hithium has raised over 2 billion yuan ($278 million) in a Series B funding round led by ABC International, the investment banking unit of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong launches $3.8bn package to lure back international business
Hong Kong has launched a HK$30bn (US$3.8bn) fund alongside a package of measures to attract international businesses back to the city after strict coronavirus pandemic controls and a security ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong start-up Lane-Eight is changing the sneaker game with its one-shoe-fits-all design
Growing up around the world and spending their formative high school years in Hong Kong, they live the busy, jet-setting life that quite naturally takes all over the place. Between team sports and ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong To ‘Trawl World For Talent’ In Reboot Attempt
"Apart from actively nurturing and retaining local talent, the government will proactively trawl the world for talent." Hong Kong has undergone its most tumultuous period since the city's 1997 ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Will ‘Trawl The World For Talent’: Leader
Hong Kong's new leader unveiled plans to resuscitate the business hub's fortunes on Wednesday, hoping to lure international expertise back to a city that has seen an exodus of talent and is mired in ... ( read original story ...)
Small Hong Kong businesses affected by redevelopment plans call for clearer conservation blueprint
Among the decades-old businesses that have been affected in one way or another by the Northern Metropolis project are a sawmill, an oyster farm and a soy sauce factory. ( read original story ...)
HK irreplaceable, Singapore business chief says
The head of a group connecting businesses in Singapore and Hong Kong on Tuesday hailed the rivalry between the two cities as "healthy", but said the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong may reverse ban on some types of re-export of e-cigarettes and other heated tobacco products
City only recently banned import, sale and manufacture of alternative smoking products, but authorities may amend law, with eye on billions of dollars that trade generates annually, source says. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong businesses hope for easier access into lucrative Greater Bay Area
The Greater Bay Area's proximity, growth potential, quality investors, and sheer market size – about 85 million people – are attractive to Hong Kong businesses. ( read original story ...)
GBA Business Confidence Index continues to drop
Hong Kong rebounds, financial services sector shows resilienceHONG KONG, Oct 17, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Standard Chartered and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) today ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong should be a hub for many things, but not espionage
It reported, rather breathlessly: “China has demanded the floor plans of all properties rented by foreign missions in Hong Kong, in a move diplomats believe reflects Beijing’s paranoia about ... ( read original story ...)
Chong Hing Bank seeks to expand faster in mainland China as GBA race heats up
Chong Hing Bank wants the mainland to account for around half of its net loans and assets, up from around a third, CEO Zong Jianxin told the Post Northbound expansion into the Greater Bay Area and the ... ( read original story ...)
In Hong Kong, ‘No Way Journalists Can Work Freely’
A prison term handed to a journalist last week shows how Hong Kong is using its laws to “assert more power” over the city’s media, analysts say. A court sentenced Edmund Wan Yiu-sing to 32 ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong long-stay landlords battle desperate hotels for finite guests as former quarantine rooms flood market
Serviced apartments and residential leasing properties are facing competition from an unlikely rival as hotels slash rates and offer long-stay deals to fill their rooms. ( read original story ...)