Hong Kong’s Exchange Fund, the war chest used to defend the local currency from attacks by short-sellers, earned HK$11.6 billion (US$1.5 billion) from its investments in the first quarter as it ... ( read original story ...)
Asia’s Most Influential: Hong Kong’s 42 Tastemakers 2021
Tatler introduces an ambitious new directory of the most influential individuals who are defining the dining scene in the city: The Hong Kong Tastemakers List. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong GDP Data Due On Monday
Hong Kong will on Monday release an advance estimate for Q1 gross domestic product, highlighting a busy day for Asia-Pacific economic ... ( read original story ...)
How meditation helped a former miner beat his mental health problems and start a new career as a mindfulness coach
Hong Kong-born Dino Hira had a big house and fancy car, but felt unfulfilled and fell into depression. Meditation set him on the road to self-discovery. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: ‘considerable growth’ expected for Hong Kong in first quarter, but pandemic will still be spectre over economic recovery
Hong Kong will experience “considerable growth” in its economy in the first quarter of the year, but the Covid-19 pandemic will still be a hurdle on the path to recovery, the city’s finance chief has ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong delivery platforms hit a sweet spot with ‘instant’ grocery services as coronavirus changes shopping habits
Instant grocery services have become the newest growth market for popular delivery apps, as the coronavirus pandemic has made Hongkongers seek the convenience of shopping at their fingertips. Up to 73 ... ( read original story ...)
Buyers pile into Hong Kong’s biggest weekend property sales in seven months as they park their investments in fixed assets
Hong Kong’s biggest weekend property sales in seven months got off to a resounding start, as buyers piled into new homes on offer at three locations across the city over the Labour Day holiday weekend ... ( read original story ...)
Northern Lights Superfood has landed in Hong Kong
April 2021 the Finnish Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong released a welcome note to their new member, as follow: Meet our new Start-Up & Entrepreneur Member Northern Lights ... ( read original story ...)
‘A self-parody of a SPAC’: The mysterious $100 million New Jersey deli is actually an investment vehicle backed by a firm in Hong Kong
SPAC. When you execute the merger, the name changes, the ticker changes, the board changes... everything changes." ... ( read original story ...)
HKT powers Hong Kong business hub with 5G
Business hub in Hong Kong territory goes for next-gen networking technology from leading local operator in order to ‘revolutionise’ the workplace with ultra-speed, productivity and connectivity. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to Test All Foreign Helpers After Variant Found
Hong Kong will quarantine residents of a roughly 400-unit apartment building for 21 days and test all of the city’s foreign domestic helpers after finding the first locally acquired case of a Covid-19 ... ( read original story ...)
How Covid-19 helped Hong Kong finally embrace cafe-bars: serving coffee by day and cocktails by night really shouldn’t be such a big deal
Daytime hangs and after-hours haunts are rarely found together in Hong Kong’s hospitality scene – but the pandemic is changing things, fast ... ( read original story ...)
Convoy shares to be delisted from Hong Kong stock exchange on Tuesday
Shares of the company had been suspended since December 2017 after regulators launched an investigation into its former directors. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong: FS reaffirms HK’s position
Financial Secretary Paul Chan today briefed UK business leaders at the online Corporate Members Briefing at Asia House on Hong Kong's leading position as a global investment and trade hub. He also ... ( read original story ...)