Tag: business

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Hong Kong has long been Asia's leading financial hub, straddling the West and China. But as Beijing tightens its grip on a ... ( read original story ...)

A 27-year-old airport worker was confirmed on Thursday as the first case in the community probably involving the Delta variant. ( read original story ...)

HK-based Insilico Medicine recently raised US$ 255m, and is disrupting the pharma industry with its novel use of deep learning and AI. ( read original story ...)

China's rising electric vehicle startup XPeng Inc. today announced the launch of its Hong Kong public offering as part of a global offering of 85,000,000 new Class A ordinary shares. The shares will ... ( read original story ...)

Australia’s rock lobsters -- a long-prized delicacy among Chinese consumers -- may be finding their way onto mainland menus through a backdoor that circumvents a worsening diplomatic and trading ... ( read original story ...)

The days of a free and freewheeling press are over as China continues its attacks on any criticism of the regime, says author and lecturer Louisa Lim ... ( read original story ...)

Food delivery app targets slice of fast-growing market by linking up with 50 store locations across the city, and customers living within 1.2km of shop can expect items in 30 minutes. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s last pro-democracy newspaper closed its doors just before midnight Wednesday, ending 26 years of journalism. The company’s remaining board members decided to close the paper earlier that ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily began printing a million copies of its final edition Wednesday evening after authorities froze its assets using a sweeping new national security law, ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's on-demand logistics and delivery firm Lalamove has filed confidentially for a US initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong stocks opened slightly higher at the beginning of business on Thursday, extending the previous day's rally, on optimism over the global ... ( read original story ...)

Xpeng Inc. has received the green light to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as soon as this year. In the latest homecoming by U.S.-listed Chinese companies, sources are telling Bloomberg the EV ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's most vocal pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, printed its last edition on Thursday after a stormy year in which its tycoon owner and other staff were arrested under a new national ... ( read original story ...)

The board of directors of Apple Daily parent company Next Media said in a statement Wednesday that the print and online editions will cease due to “the current circumstances prevailing in Hong Kong.” ... ( read original story ...)