"It's a race to be a super app in ASEAN," Varun Mittal, global emerging markets Fintech leader at consultancy EY, said during a panel discussion at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in ... ( read original story ...)
This Hong Kong Startup Uses Technology To Change Everyday Grocery Shopping
Despite being one of the financial capitals of the world, Hong Kong has traditionally lagged when it comes to cultivating game-changing startups. Among the list of reasons for this includes the high ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Starts Granting Licenses for Virtual Banks
... in Hong Kong and promote financial inclusion,” the Hong Kong Association of Banks said in a statement. “The industry can leverage this opportunity to develop new business models.” Virtual banks ... ( read original story ...)
Indian Startups, Here’s Your Chance To Scale Globally With Hong Kong Startup Launchpad
As the third largest startup ecosystem of the world, India has found several international collaborations to significantly support and grow the talent across borders and at the same time, find new ... ( read original story ...)
Cathay Pacific to buy budget airline Hong Kong Express
Hong Kong Express, which flies to destinations across Asia, will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific. Cathay Pacific has been overhauling its business to cut costs, and returned to ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-mainland China extradition plan to be watered down by exempting 9 economic crimes, under intense pressure from business community
Hong Kong’s leader, under intense pressure from the business community, has agreed to exempt nine economic crimes from a controversial proposal to allow the transfer of fugitives from the city to ... ( read original story ...)
Armed with lessons from Theranos fraud, whistleblower Erika Cheung takes aim at Hong Kong’s start-up scene
Five years ago and fresh out of college, she was an engineer at a multibillion-dollar tech start-up in Silicon Valley that turned out to be a massive fraud Now, the medical ... ( read original story ...)
Theranos whistle-blower Erika Cheung takes aim at Hong Kong’s start-up scene, with an eye for ethical entrepreneurship
faced what she calls an “inflection point” soon after it began, when in 2014 – as a young engineer less than a year out of university – she discovered that the tests she was running for the health ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong-mainland China extradition plan to be watered down by excluding 9 economic crimes, after pressure from business community
Nine economic crimes will be excluded from a controversial government proposal allowing for the extradition of suspects from Hong Kong to mainland China, Taiwan and Macau, amid mounting pressure from ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong scraps 9 types of commercial crimes from China extradition plan amid pressure from business sector
The Hong Kong government has announced that nine types of commercial crime will be excluded from the upcoming update to the city’s extradition laws. The new plan will allow Hong Kong to handle ... ( read original story ...)
The Expanding Start-up Ecosystem at Science Park – Incubation graduates and growing mentor pool celebrate milestones
A cohort of 80 start-ups celebrated a major milestone on their entrepreneurial journey – completing the incubation programme at the 2019 Incubation Graduation Ceremony held by Hong Kong Science and ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s former No 2 Anson Chan urges Americans who do business in city to protest proposed change in fugitive transfer law
The former No 2 official in Hong Kong on Monday urged all Americans who do business in the city to voice their concerns over the government’s proposal to allow the transfer of fugitives to mainland ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Airlines Launches New Business Class Menu ex-LAX
Hong Kong Airlines has launched a new Business Class menu for customers travelling out of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Designed exclusively by celebrity chef and television personality ... ( read original story ...)
US warns China meddling in Hong Kong ‘hurting business confidence’
The 1992 US-Hong Kong Policy Act allows Washington to engage with Hong Kong as a non-sovereign entity on trade and economics The United States warned in a report on Friday that increased meddling from ... ( read original story ...)