Pacific Century Group

Richard Li pays US$2.1b for ING's insurance assets

20 Oct 2012

Richard Li Tzar-kai stepped up his game in the financial market by agreeing to pay US$2.14 billion for ING's insurance business in Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand yesterday.

PCCW stock becomes a value number

8 Oct 2012

Some investors would shudder or roll their eyes at the thought of investing in PCCW. The firm's chairman, Richard Li Tzar-kai, remains an entrenched symbol of 2000-era dotcom excesses. Hong Kong...

PCCW posts sound first-half interim results

11 Aug 2012

PCCW plans to expand production of pay-television programmes and further develop its information-technology services business, as it posted solid interim results following the spin-off of its...

HKT mulls rate rise amid profit gain

10 Aug 2012

HKT Trust and HKT, which runs the biggest fixed-line network in Hong Kong, expects to raise broadband rates after posting major gains in its first interim financial results since November's...

Clouds clear for tech workers

4 Aug 2012

The term 'the cloud' means many different things to many different people. To some, it's where their Instagram pictures are stored. To businesses it can mean the Google servers where their...

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41 voting firms registered at same address

The voters' list for September's Legco elections reflects a quirk of the city's electoral law: 41 companies that will vote for trade-based seats are all registered at the same commercial address....

Advertising spending rebounds in May

Hong Kong's advertising market rebounded last month after a slowdown in April.

Major campaigns for 4G wireless network services and new mobile devices helped boost spending on...

Now TV taps into apps to boost users

More than 660,000 mobile device users have downloaded the Now Player and Now News apps, as PCCW's 24-hour pay-TV service provider, Now TV, seeks to enlarge its pool of users in Hong Kong.

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New cabinet could carry on with free-TV plans

There is no need to go back to the square one with plans for new free-TV licences if deliberations are not completed in the term of the present government, the commerce minister said yesterday....

Richard Li said to be eyeing ING Asia units

Telecom tycoon Richard Li Tzar-kai may bid for ING Group's Asia insurance and asset management businesses, according to sources.

Disliked headcount rule to be replaced

The government has decided to abolish the unpopular 'headcount rule' governing the process of taking a company private.