Luckily, stock markets do aim to support ESG, with Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta all exploring the launch of wide-scale voluntary carbon markets. These platforms would match holders of nature based ... ( read original story ...)
Fugitive Hong Kong tycoon Joseph Lau makes HK$64 million after auctioning off 414 wines at Christie’s
Lau originally bought the wines for a total of HK$10 million Half of the buyers were mainland Chinese, while others were from Taiwan and Hong Kong Fugitive Hong Kong tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung made ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to ease COVID-19 restrictions as infections fall
Hong Kong will ease some social distancing measures later this month, allowing people to dine in at restaurants in the evening and lifting restrictions on private gatherings, as the number of COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)
Beijing is still concerned about keeping Hong Kong as China’s offshore financial center: Professor
Ho-Fung Hung of Johns Hopkins University discusses what's on the horizon for Hong Kong politics. Got a confidential news ... Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and ... ( read original story ...)
China Developer Sets Biggest Hong Kong IPO Since September
At that size, it would the largest IPO in the financial hub since Dongguan Rural Commercial Bank Co.’s $1.2 billion deal in September ... but that rebound has been fading in recent days. In Hong Kong, ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong confirms it will ease COVID restrictions from April 21
Hong Kong confirmed on Thursday it will ease some of the world's most stringent COVID-19 restrictions, allowing beauty parlours, cinemas and gyms to reopen from April 21 as infections in the global ... ( read original story ...)
Tesla Rivals Nio, Xpeng Jump In Hong Kong: What’s Driving EV Stocks Today?
An SCMP report added that from April 21, Hong Kong would start easing social-distancing rules that have been in place for months, including an extension of dine-in hours for restaurants. Company In ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Rolls Back Some Virus Measures as Deadly Wave Ebbs
Hong Kong will begin a phased easing of social distancing measures next week as the world’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreak wanes. ( read original story ...)
The Death of Hong Kong’s University Student Unions
Student societies have long played an important role in Hong Kong activism. Now they are dying out amid the wider crackdown on dissent. ( read original story ...)
Luxury home rents ‘may fall by up to 15 per cent’ as Hong Kong’s strict zero-Covid policy sends expats packing
Luxury home rents may fall by as much as 15 per cent this year as expatriates keen to escape the city’s strict zero-Covid-19 policy continue to leave in droves, said analysts. ( read original story ...)
China Won’t Let Hong Kong Cut Seven-Day Quarantine, Tien Says
Tien and the other politician agreed it was unlikely Hong Kong’s border with mainland China would open this year, with the latter saying the city should focus on its internation ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong chief executive election 2022: a look at the family behind leadership hopeful John Lee
Friends and former colleagues share memories of working with Lee, say he is a ‘responsible and respectable’ father and someone who puts his wife first. ( read original story ...)
Reforming HK for the better: Technology, connectivity and people
Building off our previous discussion, it is of our view that Hong Kong must leverage technology to connect – not just hardware and existing infrastructure, but also people and networks, that have ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong questions costs of COVID rules on mental health, livelihoods
To fight COVID, Hong Kong shut schools and businesses, nearly sealed its borders for two years, banned more than two people from gathering and quarantined whole buildings. Still the draconian ... ( read original story ...)