Tag: business

Hong Kong's retail sales fell for the 24th straight month in February, hurt by a lack of growth in tourist spending as a strong local dollar hit tourism and business activity. Retail sales fell 5.7 percent from a year earlier to HK$34.8 billion ($4.48 ... ( read original story ...)

In a bid to take on the “challenging” Asian market, United Airlines, one of the world’s largest carriers, has designated its Hong Kong-San Francisco route as the first international course for a new aircraft and business class product, a company ... ( read original story ...)

In recent years, Hong Kong has become an entrepreneur's stomping ground, going from a few hundred startups to more than 2,000, Hong Kong's trade representative to the United States says. Clement Leung, Hong Kong's Washington, D.C.-based commissioner for ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG Hong Kong-leader elect Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she was "very determined" to tackle the high cost of housing in the densely populated city, among the top concerns of foreign business people working there. Lam, the Chinese-controlled financial ... ( read original story ...)

Demands and expectations for Chief Executive- elect Carrie Lam started pouring in a day after the election. Lawmaker Jeffrey Lam Kin Fung, who voted for Mrs Lam, yesterday listed several requests at a press conference which he held together with other ... ( read original story ...)

The election committee has 1,200 delegates representing business, labour and social groups who are overwhelmingly loyal to the central Chinese government in Beijing. The fact that individual Hong Kong citizens do not get a vote has fuelled much of the ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's chief executive-elect Carrie Lam met with the city's incumbent and unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying on Monday, calling for a "smooth and effective" transition of power amidst heightened tensions. Lam was chosen to be Hong ... ( read original story ...)

A small circle of Hong Kong elites on Sunday chose a Beijing loyalist as the city’s leader, a move that threatens further discord in a semi-autonomous territory torn by political divides. A committee made of business and political officials selected Lam ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG — The candidate favoured by China's Communist leadership was chosen as Hong Kong's new leader on Sunday, in the first such vote since huge pro-democracy protests erupted over the semiautonomous Chinese city's election system in 2014. ( read original story ...)

A protester holds up a yellow umbrella, the symbol of the Occupy Central movement, as she marches to demand universal suffrage in the Chief Executive election in Hong Kong Thomson Reuters HONG KONG (Reuters) - A small electoral college chooses a new Hong ... ( read original story ...)

This committee is made up of the 70 members of Hong Kong’s legislative chamber, and a mix of professionals, business and trade elites. The first vote will be cast at 9am, and the three candidates need at least 601 votes to win. If there is no overall ... ( read original story ...)

Entitled "No election in Hong Kong now", the collated livestream on Facebook was billed by organisers as a "counter-broadcast". The collage of images comprises clips submitted by Hongkongers going about their normal business to show their lack of ... ( read original story ...)

academia and the judiciary as tarnishing the city's international business allure. The detention in 2015 of five Hong Kong booksellers who sold material critical of Beijing also dismayed many residents. The upheavals over the city's autonomy and democratic ... ( read original story ...)

Ng, a Hong Kong lawyer who has written a book about the Umbrella Movement protests. “All we can do is watch and wait for the future of our city to be decided for us.” A 1,194-member election committee of business and political elites, many of whom are ... ( read original story ...)