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Without Hong Kong’s thriving entertainment industry and open culture, the genius and creativity of the literary giant and his martial arts epics would have no chance to shine.

Family of eight-year-old Hong Kong girl left in vegetative state for years after operation deserves empathy from community. Public hospitals treat most people in city and there have been relatively few serious medical blunders despite pandemic and staff shortages

  • Private equity firm Gaw Capital has started raising a US$100 million credit fund that will make loans against Hong Kong property
  • It follows the launch of real estate private credit firm PACM’s special situation fund, which has a target of US$300 million

Ex-Yuen Long District Council chairman tells riot trial of fellow district councillor that he alerted police to potential trouble at Yuen Long MTR in 2019 two days before violence erupted.

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YF Life Trustees, the smallest of Hong Kong’s MPF providers, will be the first to migrate to the soon-to-be-launched eMPF Platform, while HSBC, the largest provider, will be the last, according to the pensions regulator.

After cutting costs by about 20 per cent throughout 2023, Hex Trust sees the cryptocurrency market’s revival ‘directly translating into profitability’ for the company.

Hong Kong fashion designers describe how they use sustainable materials such as natural dyes made from foods like onion peel and pomegranates, and leather made from fish skin.

Gaw Capital Partners, one of Hong Kong’s biggest real estate private-fund management firms, is focusing on logistics in Vietnam and Mexico, as well as the AI sector bailing out distressed office assets in the US, amid challenges to an economic recovery in mainland China.

Insiders reveal calculated strategy to catch foreign powers off guard and curb impact of potential sanctions or smear campaigns ahead of passing of Article 23 bill.

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Over the past two years, Japanese businesses have been the most active among foreign firms in terms of leasing retail spaces in Hong Kong, according to data compiled by JLL.

Some 238 of the 336 units available in the first batch at Uptown East in Kowloon Bay, worth about US$179 million, found buyers as of 6pm on Sunday, in a sign that the removal of all market-cooling measures has revived demand in Hong Kong.

Simon Siu, chairman of Estate Agents Authority, says decision to scrap extra stamp duties last month was ‘shot in the arm’ for ailing property market.

Mainland cryptocurrency investors made US$1.15 billion in 2023 to rank fourth behind those in the US, the UK and Vietnam, according to a Chainalysis survey.

Chan says new or expanded firms, together with 30 companies that made similar moves last year, will invest more than HK$40 billion in the city and create 13,000 jobs.

The Biennale of Sydney art exhibition, Ten Thousand Suns, is a celebration of diversity, with works by 96 artists from 53 nations, many of whom are relatively unknown on the global arts scene.

Report covered sentencing of Hong Kong actor Gregory Wong, who was among three political activists and 10 others charged with rioting and breaching Legco complex.