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[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] From AI-powered mental health screening to beer brewed from surplus bread, women entrepreneurs at the Standard Chartered Women’s International Network (SC WIN) Now & Next Challenge in Shenzhen demonstrated how innovation can
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Hong Kong is well positioned to help companies deploy green services and technologies across belt and road countries, the city’s leader and a mainland Chinese official have said, with authorities noting that at least five enterprises have signed up. They made the remarks at the Belt and Road Green I
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Corporate earnings are becoming another factor holding back Chinese stocks, with industries ranging from consumer goods to real estate and green energy under pressure because of weak demand or excessive capacity. Profit growth through the first nine months for mainland Chinese listed companies slowe
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Hong Kong’s insurance watchdog is tightening oversight of the city’s booming premium financing market, as the once-niche lending arrangement spreads to lower-tier insurance buyers, while also reviewing regulations, particularly on how insurers evaluate clients’ affordability, according to Insurance
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Goldman Sachs is accelerating the hiring of wealth management advisers across Asia as the region’s wealthy families increasingly seek to diversify into US assets after years of strong market gains, while the AI boom is creating a new generation of millionaires with growing financial planning needs.
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Seventy-eight-year-old Fung Ho-chu has been hoping to put her wishes on end-of-life treatment into writing ever since she learned that a new law on advance medical directives (AMD) came into effect in late July. But as a senior living on government welfare in low-income Sham Shui Po, the costs of th
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China’s BYD will build new factories in Europe for a bigger market share, as the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) maker faces fiscal support pullback at home and rising trade barriers overseas, according to an executive. “Europe is a very important regional market for BYD. We will not let tarif
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A Chinese developer behind one of Sri Lanka’s biggest projects has reason to celebrate as a luxury property boom lifts sentiment in the South Asian nation and fuels optimism about the market’s prospects. Analysts, however, cautioned that a string of disappointing Chinese overseas property investment
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Former HSBC Holdings global insurance head Edward Moncreiffe will join rival AIA Group as regional CEO from November 2, following a path taken by former HSBC Group chairman Mark Tucker, who returned to the Asia-Pacific region’s largest insurer as non-executive chairman last year. Moncreiffe will ove
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Hong Kong recorded its highest-ever temperature for the traditional Chinese calendar’s “Frost” solar term on Friday, with the weather forecaster warning of a very dry weekend ahead. The Hong Kong Observatory said the temperature reached 32.1 degrees Celsius by 2.30pm. Frost, the 18th of the Chinese
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As regional equities tumbled and hopes for investor stimulus faded, the Hang Seng Index fell to a seven-month low. Attention also remained focused on Beijing’s intensified scrutiny of offshore wealth and tax compliance. Macroeconomic data pointed to steady, if uneven, domestic momentum. Here are the
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Hong Kong authorities have slammed the UK for making “untruthful remarks, slanders and smears” about the city’s affairs in its latest six-monthly report that described the “expanding scope and application” of national security laws in the financial hub. The Hong Kong government said on Friday that i
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Chinese stocks extended their sell-off on Friday, pushing the benchmark CSI 300 index deeper into bear-market territory, as fading hopes for fresh stimulus and a global retreat from artificial intelligence-related trades rattled investor sentiment. The CSI 300 fell 1.7 per cent to 3,964.48 as of 10.
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Hong Kong’s offshore yuan bond market is becoming an increasingly important funding source for global banks, with US lenders driving a surge in issuance even as the currency’s traditional funding advantage over the dollar narrows. The shift offers a glimpse of how financial ties between Wall Street
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HSBC will launch its Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin in stages from Friday for more than 3.3 million users of its PayMe app, as the bank pushes to bring digital currencies into the city’s mainstream retail and investment markets. HSBC RedCoin, available only through PayMe and the bank’s Hong Kong
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Beijing has slammed “irresponsible remarks” by Britain after a UK report said Hong Kong’s national security law had further diminished the openness that underpinned the city’s success. In the United Kingdom’s latest six-month monitoring report on Hong Kong, released on Thursday, Foreign Secretary Ed
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Thursday marked the deadline for Chinese taxpayers to make outstanding tax payments tied to offshore trusts as the government chases new funding sources to help ease fiscal strains. Investors face a 20 per cent tax based on the initial value of assets placed in trusts and a 20 per cent tax on distri
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Slain Hong Kong socialite Abby Choi Tin-fung received a share of the profits her ex-husband made from investing in luxury watches, the model’s murder trial has heard. Chan Leong-hang, an employee of Aristo Watch & Jewellery in Tsim Sha Tsui, said on Thursday that Alex Kwong Kong-chi sold upmarket ti
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A slew of market-stabilising measures unveiled by the head of China’s securities regulator this week has won praise from investors, despite the fact that mainland stock prices did not roar back over the following days. The focus on supporting stocks and investor confidence over the long term, rather
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Hong Kong’s largest landlords and developers could get their first formal route into the rising student accommodation market after the government announced plans to tender land for a purpose-built student hostel this quarter, according to analysts. Development Secretary Bernadette Linn Hon-ho announ
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Tesla has agreed a deal to integrate Chinese fintech giant Ant Group’s Alipay digital payment software into its vehicles in China, as Elon Musk’s firm steps up efforts to offer localised smart features amid intense competition in the Chinese market. The agreement, signed on Tuesday, will see Tesla r
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Hong Kong has vowed to engage more international banks in a debt securities clearing system, as part of a wider push to develop the city into a leading global yuan trading hub. “Hong Kong is actively promoting a number of measures to advance the city’s offshore yuan market to higher and deeper level
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Wednesday marks the first anniversary of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s leadership that has seen her alienate China, rattle markets with her expansive spending and establish herself as a workaholic leader. Here are five things to know about Japan’s first woman prime minister an
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印尼央行宣布不對稱加息,連續4次政策會議維持指標利率不變,但上調存款工具利率25個基點。 印尼央行將隔夜存款工具利率上調25點子,升至5厘,並維持貸款工具利率6.5厘不變。指標的7日期逆回購利率亦維持5.75厘不變。 MSCI明晟上周表示,可能將印尼股市由新興市場降級為獨立市場(Standalone Market),引發股市連續兩日創紀錄暴跌,印尼盾匯價徘徊在紀錄低位附近。 編輯:李意琴
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As China’s housing market downturn enters its fifth year, global investment banks including Goldman Sachs and Citi say they expect the sector to pivot as soon as 2027, with expectations fuelled by signs of shrinking supply and robust sales over the National Day holiday in early October. Citi holds a
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Chinese pharmaceutical companies are ramping up global expansion and the sector, set to sustain rapid growth with the upcoming third-quarter earnings releases, could see a further lift in market sentiment, analysts said. In the first three quarters, domestic innovative drugs accounted for 80 per cen