Tag: business

Hong Kong Chinese have benefited from western-style freedom without knowing or appreciating it. Yet some try to dissect and segregate it, so they have just have enough freedom to do business while trading the other away for expediency and to allay Beijing ... ( read original story ...)

Australian Business Traveller understands that Virgin Australia plans ... (This trick unfortunately doesn’t work with Hong Kong Airlines or Beijing Capital Airlines: only Hainan Airlines.) Enter subscription-based website ExpertFlyer, which can search ... ( read original story ...)

In the mid-1990s, Johnson Leung embarked on a career in shipping. In the early 2000s, he moved to finance. And now, he runs a Hong Kong startup that aims to improve how container ships are booked using blockchain technology. Many in Hong Kong hope the city ... ( read original story ...)

the co-founder and chief executive at start-up Hong Kong mobile application developer PassKit, told the South China Morning Post in an exclusive interview. Blockchain, which has gained both notoriety and acclaim as the mechanism behind cryptocurrency ... ( read original story ...)

We are also moving ahead with, I just mentioned, the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation & Technology Park project in an area called the Lok Ma Chau Loop – a future hub for R&D collaboration. In addition, we will support startups at different stages of ... ( read original story ...)

It was this that set him on course for a full-time MBA at Hong Kong’s CUHK Business School in search of a deeper understanding of how big business operates. Since completing his degree, Syed has transitioned into the world of digital marketing with an ... ( read original story ...)

And they all moved to the couch and held the meeting there, the 48-year-old president of Ariel Investments recounted on a recent visit to Hong Kong. The story sums up ... A study by LeanIn.org and McKinsey & Co. found females lag behind men on the career ... ( read original story ...)

A McKinsey Center for Government report details an example of private/public sector collaboration, in which a team from the Chinese University of Hong Kong worked with the government to create a geospatial tool that identified areas in the city where the ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong doesn’t have a great track record when it comes to tech startups. Its Cyberport business incubator has been criticized as a housing development in disguise, while many local workers are reluctant to leave their steady jobs for riskier ventures. ( read original story ...)

Once the fund managers chose a jurisdiction to undertake fund management activities, it is difficult for them to shift their business to Hong Kong in the short term, he said. The comprehensive review will include the feasibility of introducing limited ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based venture capital fund Beyond Venture launched on Thursday, targeting local Hong Kong start-ups with its initial fund expecting to be worth more than HK$1 billion (US$128 million). “We plan to invest in five or six Hong Kong start-ups by ... ( read original story ...)

Keep in mind that while Hong Kong Airlines will eventually have reverse herringbone seats in business class on their A350s, the first three A350s will instead feature a staggered configuration. This is because Hong Kong Airlines took over the first three ... ( read original story ...)

In developed markets, most notably the United States and Europe, major investors are paying even closer attention to environmental, social and governance criteria as a key factor when putting together their portfolios. They can see that these issues have ... ( read original story ...)

“We won a lot more of our kick-offs in Hong Kong. Korea had a very good start against us, to be 24-5 down at half-time, I thought the boys played really well after that and showed a bit of fight,” John said. “It’s just a matter of getting that ... ( read original story ...)