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 ...)
Hongkongers face ‘most serious’ traffic delays in mainland China in years at start of ‘super golden week’ holiday
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 ...)
Swedish fintech start-up completed Bangkok Bank’s InnoHub accelerator
... InnoHub at both Startup Thailand and Techsauce start-up conferences/exhibitions in Bangkok, meeting with VCs and business angels both from Thailand as well as from the region; primarily Hong Kong and Singapore. Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited ... ( read original story ...)
2017 Hong Kong World Cup: Day 2 Prelims Live Recap
The second and final morning of the Hong Kong World Cup will feature another mountain of events ... FINA World Cup stop series and the first in the Asia cluster. Prelims will start at 9:30 AM local time and finals at 6:30 PM local time. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong company directors’ share buying rises for a second week
Buying among company directors rose while the selling fell for the second straight week, based on filings on the Hong Kong stock exchange in the last week of September. A total of 51 companies recorded 314 purchases worth HK$480 million versus seven firms ... ( read original story ...)
‘World-leading’ electronic wallet system linking Hong Kong banks to be launched next year
QFPay Overseas, a mobile payment start-up which has rolled out Alipay and WeChat Pay at 3,000 sales terminals across Hong Kong, welcomed the decision. Co-founder Will Leung admitted e-wallet services were slow to gain a foothold in Hong Kong, despite the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong initial coin offering case studies: 330 Cubits and Gatcoin
“The challenge we have is a chicken and egg one,” said Johnson Leung, co-founder of 300 Cubits, a company in the midst of launching an ICO in Hong Kong, and hoping to revolutionise ... further development of the business. As well as raising capital ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong fast developing as a cryptocurrency centre
“The co-founders all have experience doing business in Asia, and we felt Hong Kong was the right place for us. The market is fast developing and we wanted to get in early and try to shape it.” An ICO is a means by which companies developing projects ... ( read original story ...)
Ardmore’s downtown disrupter: PucciManuli’s owner has a vision
Her career highlight was spending nearly a month in Asia covering the booming gaming industry there in 2009, where she crossed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Macau on a ferry ... a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a former Wharton professor, was ... ( read original story ...)
Is an analyst worth US$75,000 or US$1m? How China decides
That compares with a 12 per cent drop in research jobs at global investment banks tracked by McKinsey & Co from 2011 through June ... change in careers and compensation,” said May Zhao, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Zhongtai Financial International ... ( read original story ...)
Growth in Chinese clients buying insurance in Hong Kong boosts FTLife’s business
The steady growth of mainland Chinese clients who come to Hong Kong to buy insurance products has boosted the business of FTLife Insurance, according to the company’s Asia CEO, Lennard Yong. The company, one of Hong Kong’s largest life insurers ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s financial institutions need skilled workers to improve risk management
While large financial institutions have made progress applying smart technologies like cloud, biometrics, and big data analytics to their risk management functions, 66 per cent of executives say skills deficiencies are impeding the effectiveness of the ... ( read original story ...)
InvesTech : CHANGE OF COMPANY SECRETARY, AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE, SERVICE AGENT AND PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN HONG KONG
(Stock Code: 1087) CHANGE OF COMPANY SECRETARY, AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE, SERVICE AGENT AND PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS IN HONG KONG CHANGE OF COMPANY SECRETARY, AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE AND SERVICE AGENT The board of directors (the "Board") of InvesTech ... ( read original story ...)
Can newcomer Just MMA kick-start Hong Kong’s ailing cage fighting scene? New organisation aims to showcase local fighters
Hong Kong’s efforts to carve itself a niche in the rapidly evolving world of mixed martial arts have received a boost with a new promotional organisation to be launched using the city as its base. “We want to build a sports media company and we want to ... ( read original story ...)