Tag: business

A new direct route between Dublin and Hong Kong will “dramatically” strengthen an already burgeoning business relationship between Ireland and Asia, according to business and political figures. Cathay Pacific announced it will operate a new direct ... ( read original story ...)

According to a study published by the McKinsey Global Institute in April ... Professor Yang Qiang, head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was elected chairman of the Awards ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong-based chairman Ho — whose hands-on investment house ... Not bad for a few years NED work. Ex China-focused, McKinsey consultant Chan Wai-Chan, also apparently still to buy any Bellamy’s shares, would receive a more modest package, as ... ( read original story ...)

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I recently wrote about a visit to the SilverKris Lounge in Hong Kong where Joanna and I used the First Class area courtesy of our Singapore Airlines Suites Class booking. The SilverKris Business Class lounge shares and entrance with the First Class ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong — Tens of thousands marched in China-ruled Hong Kong on Sunday in an "anti-authoritarian rule" march that called for the resignation of the city’s top legal official over the recent jailing of young democracy activists. The march, an annual ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based startup CompareAsiaGroup ... It requires a shift in mindset as well as a complete overhaul of processes in many cases. McKinsey estimates that smart factories – dubbed the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 – can boost ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based startup CompareAsiaGroup ... It requires a shift in mindset as well as a complete overhaul of processes in many cases. McKinsey estimates that smart factories – dubbed the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0 – can boost ... ( read original story ...)

In Hong Kong this week, Grab co-founder Tan Hooi Ling told This Week in Asia the company was not resting on its laurels. The 33-year-old former McKinsey consultant cofounded Grab with Anthony Tan, the scion of a Malaysian automotive empire, while they were ... ( read original story ...)

In less than five years, Chinese families famous for saving 40 percent of their annual income under the mattress at home have embraced the Big Data lifestyle in ways that leave arguably more mature digital marketplaces such as Hong Kong gasping like Wile E. ( read original story ...)

Last week, Treebo raised $34 million, its highest investment round yet, from Hong Kong-based investment firms Ward Ferry ... about entrepreneurship was in school. But then I joined McKinsey as a consultant. While at McKinsey, I saw the startup ecosystem ... ( read original story ...)

Pro-democracy activists carry a banner reading "anti-authority, against suppression", during a protest on China's National Day in Hong Kong Thomson Reuters HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tens of thousands marched in China-ruled Hong Kong on Sunday in an "anti ... ( read original story ...)

Not since Bette Midler made her first entrance in Hello Dolly has an audience erupted as it did when A-list Hong Kong actor Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, channelling his best imitation of Steve Jobs, strutted the stage last week at an Our Hong Kong Foundation ... ( read original story ...)

Throngs of Hong Kong tourists and coach operators were held back in the city due to serious traffic jams clogging up a key motorway linking neighbouring Guangdong province at the start of the country’s “super golden week” holiday over the weekend. ( read original story ...)