Hong Kong’s finance chief has dismissed a proposal to count residential properties as investments under a revised entrant scheme despite house prices stabilising, citing the sensitivity of such assets ...
Analysis-Red tape clogs China’s offshore IPO pipeline even as markets recover
More than a year after China pledged to smoothen the process for offshore listings, firms are reeling from a regulatory logjam that is unlikely to ease soon, and staring at the prospects of sharply ...
HSBC Buys back 5.55M+ Shrs for HKD383M in Total Last Fri
HSBC HOLDINGS (00005.HK) announced that it repurchased a total of 5.5526 million shares of the company for a total amount of HKD383 million last Friday (31 May) in the UK and Hong ... HSBC HOLDINGS ...
After Crackdown on Hong Kong, Overseas Communities Carry the Torch to Keep Tiananmen Memories Alive
After Crackdown on Hong Kong, Overseas Communities Carry the Torch to Keep Tiananmen Memories Alive HONG KONG (AP) — As the 35th anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square crackdown neared, Rowena He, ...
Hong Kong’s June 4 memory battle behind Chow Hang-tung and her supporters’ arrests
Hong Kong Human rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung, 39, along with five of her supporters, were arrested and imprisoned on May 28, 2024, for publishing seditious posts on social media that allegedly incited ...
Bybit Affiliate Spark Fintech Withdraws VASP License Application in Hong Kong
Spark Fintech Limited, an affiliate of Bybit, one of the world's top three cryptocurrency exchanges by volume, has announced its decision to withdraw its ...
Hong Kong residential transaction volume more than doubled in April
Transactions reached over 8,500 cases during the month. Hong Kong’s residential property market saw a notable rebound in April amid active new project launches by developers at deep discounts, said ...
Red tape clogs China’s offshore IPO pipeline even as markets recover
At least $20 billion worth of Chinese firms' Hong Kong IPO proposals have been awaiting approval for months, according to Reuters calculations. Bankers close to those deals say most of the sizable ...
Waterbomb Hong Kong music festival slammed by concertgoers after delayed start and queues chaos
Chaos at Waterbomb Hong Kong music festival after long queues caused by delayed start and hours-long wait to retrieve bags from cloakroom after event ends.
Costly Hong Kong dental care pushes more patients to visit neighbouring Shenzhen to fill service gaps
Chapman Chan Wing-kei, chief strategy and investment officer of the C-MER Eye Care Holdings, which owns the hospital, said Hongkongers last year accounted for about 10,000 visits on average per month ...
Work of ‘Uncle Kiu’, former Post chief photographer, goes on show at special exhibition in Hong Kong News-Expo
Post chief photographer Chan Kiu, who covered some of the biggest events in Hong Kong history, including floods, an influx of refugees, typhoons and other disasters, opens.
Ex-Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam makes surprise visit to food carnival, weeks after HK$9 million-a-year office becomes talk of the town
Former chief executive visits ‘Hometown market’ at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay, tours several stalls and watches martial arts performance.
Ex-Crosby Textor pollster ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with Hong Kong work
The former head of Crosby Textor’s global research team says the firm’s work for a pro-Beijing think tank in Hong Kong made him “deeply uncomfortable” but he felt he “had little choice in the matter”.
Busy Hong Kong intersection partially reopens after road subsidence leaves huge pothole but main section remains closed
Two sections of Hoi Tan Street in Sham Shui Po as well as Kweilin Street were shut to all traffic after pothole started to appear on Friday afternoon ...