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Premier E. David Burt

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27 September, 2024

Hurricane Ernesto moves on in the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday after making landfall on Bermuda. Photo: Reuters

Americas and the Caribbean

Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall in Bermuda, leaving thousands without power

Hurricane Ernesto lashed Bermuda with heavy rains and strong winds on Saturday, with meteorologists warning of a dangerous storm surge and floods.

17 Aug 2024 - 11:47PM

English Premier League

If Bermuda can produce English Premier League footballers, why can’t Hong Kong?

16 Jun 2024 - 12:01PM

Hong Kong property

Evergrande’s founder sells Hong Kong mansion after 44% discount

12 Jun 2024 - 5:52PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s car exports set to soar as EV makers shrug off US, European trade curbs

China’s overseas vehicle shipments are set to grow at a clip this year, bolstered by surging sales in markets like Southeast Asia and the Middle East, as the country’s heft in manufacturing electric cars goes from strength to strength.

6 May 2024 - 8:27AMvideocam

China is expected to ship 6 million vehicles abroad in 2024, 22 per cent higher than last year’s 4.91 million units. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong racing

Cruz slams Happy Valley track: ‘it’s never been this bad before’

Inner-city surface comes under fire as Jockey Club cancels next week’s turf trials at Sha Tin

2 May 2024 - 7:47PM

Fame and celebrity

Who is Oprah Winfrey’s ‘spiritual partner’ of four decades, Stedman Graham?

Winfrey is one of the richest entertainment moguls out there, boasting a net worth of US$3 billion in 2024 – but who’s her partner who’s been by her side since 1986?

25 Apr 2024 - 6:00PM

PGA Tour

Bhatia, Theegala aim to boost status of Indian golf with good showing at Masters

Indian-American golfers take to the field at Augusta National on Thursday with the hopes of a generation of home fans on their shoulders.

9 Apr 2024 - 8:30PM

Akshay Bhatia was triumphant at the PGA Texas Open and hopes to back that up with an impressive performance at the Masters. Photo: Getty Images

Digital currencies

Hong Kong’s HashKey crypto exchange takes aim at Coinbase with global platform

Hong Kong’s biggest licensed cryptocurrency exchange operator has launched a global trading platform, but it is not available in the US or China.

8 Apr 2024 - 2:29PMvideocam

Hong Kong Sevens

‘Vibrant’ Hong Kong Sevens back to normal, businesses harbour Kai Tak concerns

The Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens roared into action on Friday, with sold-out crowds revelling in home success and splashing out on city stays

6 Apr 2024 - 12:49AM

Insurance

Exclusive | Guinness World Records: HSBC Life sells US$250m insurance policy to Asian client

The sale to an Asian customer handily surpasses the US$201 million cover bought by a tech billionaire in California in March 2014. It was certified by Guinness World Records.

29 Feb 2024 - 9:49AM

Edward Moncreiffe (left), CEO of HSBC Life Hong Kong and Macau, and K C Cheung, head of products, display a certificate from Guinness World Records for the all-time high insurance policy sale. Photo: Handout

Formula One (F1)

Ferrari taking F1 technology to the waves with new ocean racing sailing team

Luxury sports car maker to team up with Italian ocean racing yachtsman Giovanni Soldini.

25 Jan 2024 - 10:27AM

Giovanni Soldini will work with Ferrari as the luxury sports car maker enters the world of ocean racing. Photo: Handout

Reality TV

Is Real Housewife Monica Garcia the most controversial reality star of 2024?

Garcia joined the cast as the former assistant to disgraced ex-Housewife Jen Shah – but now cast member Heather Gay says she will never appear on the show alongside Garcia again …

19 Jan 2024 - 7:00PM

Asia travel

Destinations known | Singapore’s Tortoise Island no slowcoach in race to be fully sustainable

Singapore’s Kusu (Tortoise) Island is now completely self-reliant in using solar power to produce its water and electricity, a report says, joining an all-too-small list of fully sustainable islands.

14 Dec 2023 - 4:25PM

Style Edit

Style edit: How Chanel’s camellia motif is being reimagined 100 years on

For a century the brand has used the flower season after season – now director Virginie Viard has adapted it afresh with her vintage-leaning autumn/winter 2023 collection

9 Oct 2023 - 10:00AM

Chanel’s autumn/winter 2023-24 campaign is the latest to use the camellia, a signature motif ever since the days of Coco Chanel herself. Photo: Handout

Paris Fashion Week

Paris Fashion Week: the best of womenswear ready-to-wear spring/summer 2024

Fashion big guns Dior, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, Loewe, Valentino and Alexander McQueen all presented stellar shows this season – read our review

7 Oct 2023 - 6:12PM

Model Vittoria Ceretti presents a creation by designer Virginie Viard as part of her spring/summer 2024 ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Chanel during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on October 3. Photo: Reuters

China property

Cuts to outstanding mortgages might not be enough to boost China’s housing market

Major Chinese commercial banks have cut rates for outstanding home loans as part of a series of state-directed stimulus measures aimed at easing homebuyers’ debt burdens and reviving the country’s troubled property sector. But the cut might not provide a sufficient boost to demand, analysts said.

26 Sep 2023 - 6:00AM

China property

Chinese property firm Oceanwide gets liquidation order in Bermuda

A Chinese property investor that has struggled with several US projects faces court-ordered liquidation as a Bermuda court issued a winding-up order against the firm.

25 Sep 2023 - 1:11PM

Insurance

Exclusive | Manulife doubling down on rich mainland customers with new Hong Kong centre: CEO

Manulife will open its second prestige customer centre in Hong Kong and invest more on digital tools to support growing business from returning mainland Chinese customers, its newly appointed Asia CEO says.

19 Nov 2024 - 10:07AM

Witherington relocated from Canada to Hong Kong last month to take up the role of Asia CEO. Photo: Xiaomei Chen

Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong marine animal experts call for clear guidelines on whale watching

Establishing restriction zones is ‘an absolute minimum that needs to be introduced’, says founder of non-governmental advocacy group.

6 Aug 2023 - 9:06PM

Hong Kong society

‘Too little, too late’: Hong Kong authorities accused of not protecting whale

Lawmaker Doreen Kong says government should have been more decisive instead of waiting for experts to come to a consensus on what to do.

2 Aug 2023 - 8:20PMvideocam

Environment

Language Matters | How the word ‘mangrove’ has contested etymological roots

While most agree the word ‘mangrove’ derives from Portuguese, there is debate as to what its exact origin is. What is more crucial, in any case, is the tree’s future conservation.

25 Jul 2023 - 10:45AM

Mangrove forests comprise salt-tolerant trees with characteristic exposed networks of roots. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Hong Kong hip-hop talent Tyson Yoshi’s 10 most stylish luxury looks

Hong Kong’s beloved singer-rapper Tyson Yoshi is shining bright – and so do his ‘fits! Here are 10 of our favourite looks of his ... from Louis Vuitton to Loro Piana

12 Jul 2023 - 12:31PM

Hong Kong singer and rapper Tyson Yoshi wore this chic Dior outfit in New York City, US, in January. Photo: @tysonyoshi/Instagram

Hong Kong property

Billionaire Cheng eyes US$4.6 billion NWS takeover to ease New World debt load

Hong Kong’s third richest family, led by Henry Cheng Kar-shun, offers to take full control of NWS Holdings, including a big block held by New World Development, to help ease the latter’s debt burden.

27 Jun 2023 - 4:38PM

Banking & finance

Hong Kong can get ahead of London, Singapore as global insurance hub

Hong Kong can overtake London, Tokyo and Singapore and become an international insurance centre leveraging its underserved economic hinterland as well as the fast-growing opportunities in the Greater Bay Area, according to speakers on a panel on Tuesday.

20 Jun 2023 - 6:53PM

Obituaries

Roger Payne, scientist who discovered whales can sing, dies at 88

His haunting album, Songs of the Humpback Whale, galvanised a global movement to end commercial whaling and save the marine giants from extinction.

15 Jun 2023 - 5:18AMvideocam

Roger Payne is seen on board Ocean Alliance’s research vessel RV Odyssey in 2002, during the Voyage of the Odyssey, a groundbreaking toxicology study circumnavigating the globe. Photo: AP

Celebrity children

Who is Carys Zeta Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones’ lookalike model daughter?

Carys Zeta Jones, daughter of Academy Award-winning parents Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas, just made her Cannes debut – but as a kid she believed her dad was a ‘pancake maker’

12 Jun 2023 - 12:10AMvideocam

Carys Zeta Douglas is the daughter of Academy Award-winners, Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas. Photos: @movies_movies_and_more, @stephanebodin/Instagram

Insurance

Hong Kong insurers’ sales to Chinese visitors jumped 28-fold in first quarter

Life insurance sales to mainland Chinese visitors rose by 28 times in the first quarter, as the reopening of the border unleashed a wave of pent-up demand, data from the Insurance Authority showed.

19 Nov 2024 - 11:09AMvideocam

Singapore

Singapore court rules Credit Suisse owes millions to an ex-prime minister

Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire businessman who amassed a fortune in Russia before serving as Georgia’s leader, put more than US$1.1 billion into a trust overseen by the bank’s Singapore subsidiary, and an employee ‘misappropriated millions’.

27 May 2023 - 8:40PM

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