Tag: business

Virgin Australia is expected to announce the start of flights between Melbourne and Hong Kong this week after the Australian Competition ... tempting corporate travellers with the promise of modern and spacious business class seats with direct aisle ... ( read original story ...)

“In addition, sentiment in our main market of Hong Kong was negative towards tourism and retail business for much of 2016 although we believe we have seen some stabilisation since.” The Peninsula Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui booked a 4 per cent on year drop ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The annual RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Awards, Hong Kong recognised the region’s most successful real estate teams and developments in the property sector. Companies and individuals received 36 awards at ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong, or ‘Honkers’ as it’s affectionately known, has a great deal to offer both business and leisure travellers, striking the perfect balance between a bustling commercial hub and the quintessential South East Asian cultural experience. ( read original story ...)

... s announcement by property major Wharf Holdings that it would halt further investment into its pay TV business speaks volumes about Hong Kong’s small and crowded television market. Operators have little room to expand into mainland China due to ... ( read original story ...)

The year was 2012 and the Iron Man movie franchise was on its way to a third film, sowing the superhero seeds for what would become a billion-dollar genre for Hollywood. Mars Tsoi Chun-chung, then a 31-year-old fan with Iron Man fever running high in his ... ( read original story ...)

Although research indicates nine out of 10 start-ups fail, a growing number of support services have been springing up in Hong Kong hoping to beat the odds in their search for new talent. Obviously, start-ups are not created equally, but neither are the ... ( read original story ...)

Being known as Hong Kong’s flagship carrier may best represent what’s wrong with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. The city of about 7.3 million people may no longer be capable of supporting a premium-service airline, especially when the 48 passenger-service ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Being known as Hong Kong’s flagship carrier may best represent what’s wrong with Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. The city of about 7.3 million people may no longer be capable of supporting a premium-service airline, especially when the 48 ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG, CHINA--(Marketwired - Mar 15, 2017) - Arrow Electronics, Inc., (NYSE: ARW) today held an Internet of Things (IoT) Innovations event in Shenzhen, China to connect Hong Kong innovation startups with technology companies in China. As part of Arrow ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG: When it comes to this year’s surge in Hong Kong stocks, it paid to root for the underdog. Equities with the lowest ratings from analysts have driven the market’s Asia-leading gains in 2017, streaking ahead of shares showered with buy ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s largest jeweller, Chow Tai Fook, is seeking custom from mainland shoppers in Japan in a bid to capture growing demand there by Chinese travellers amid slow business in Hong Kong and Beijing’s travel ban on group tours to South Korea. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong residential property prices appear at a disconnect with the uptrending cycle of US interest rates, thanks to strong local buying interest and rising demand from mainlanders seeking to hedge against yuan depreciation. Home prices surged to a new ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong, already the world’s least affordable urban centre ... America and western Europe combined in the two decades between 1992 and 2013, according to McKinsey Global Institute’s 2016 survey. The Chinese government will pump 1.8 trillion yuan ... ( read original story ...)