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Hong Kong Monetary Authority Launches One Point Five Billion Dollar Infrastructure Bond Tender

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is offering one-year floating-rate notes linked to the Hong Kong Dollar Overnight Index Average under the government’s institutional bond programme, supporting financing for public infrastructure and sust...

Cathay Group Reports Six Point Two Billion Hong Kong Dollar First-Half Profit and Raises Dividend

Hong Kong’s flagship aviation group posted a sharp increase in first-half profit, supported by sustained passenger demand, strong cargo performance and gains linked to its Air China investment, marking a significant improvement in the gr...

Hang Seng Tech Index Plans Expansion to Fifty Constituents

Hang Seng Indexes Company is proposing to add twenty high-growth technology stocks to the Hang Seng Tech Index without regard to market capitalization limits, broadening its coverage of emerging technology sectors and potentially increas...

HK Electric Warns of Higher Consumer Fuel Charges as Global Energy Costs Rise

HK Electric Investments expects upward pressure on fuel clause charges in the second half as global energy markets remain volatile, potentially increasing operating costs for businesses across Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Police Report More Than 112 Million Hong Kong Dollars Lost in Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud

Hong Kong authorities say at least 269 victims lost more than 112 million Hong Kong dollars in the Fun Coffee cryptocurrency investment scheme, highlighting continuing risks for retail investors as virtual-asset activity expands.

China Resources Land Launches Southwest Kowloon Housing Project as Buyers Anticipate Lower Rates

China Resources Land has released the first price list for The Sterling I residential development in Southwest Kowloon, testing demand in Hong Kong’s primary housing market as buyers anticipate possible interest rate cuts.

Swire Pacific Reports Record First-Half Profit as Property, Beverage and Aviation Businesses Strengthen

Hong Kong conglomerate Swire Pacific reported a forty-eight percent rise in underlying profit in the first half, with its diversified property, beverage and aviation operations showing resilience despite economic pressures in mainland Ch...

Hong Kong Moves to Lower Heat Stress Warning Thresholds for Outdoor Workers

The Labour Department is working with the Hong Kong Observatory to issue higher-level heat warnings sooner after severe summer temperatures prompted criticism from industry groups, a change that could affect construction and logistics op...

Hong Kong Police Use Drones in Major Traffic Enforcement Operation for First Time

Police in Eastern Kowloon used aerial drones to monitor and arrest drivers accused of dangerous high-speed driving along the Kwun Tong Bypass, marking a new use of drone technology in Hong Kong traffic enforcement.

Hong Kong Opens New Economic and Trade Office in Malaysia to Strengthen Southeast Asian Links

Hong Kong has established a new economic and trade office in Kuala Lumpur as part of an effort to attract Southeast Asian investment and deepen commercial connections between Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area and regional markets.

Hong Kong Expects One Point Eight Five Million Second-Half Visitors as Major Events Drive Tourism

Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po expects more than one point eight five million visitors in the second half of the year as Hong Kong stages more than one hundred major events, with the Kai Tak Sports Park expected to support tourism, ...

Shein Targets Thirty Billion Dollar Valuation in Hong Kong Initial Public Offering

Singapore-based online fashion retailer Shein is accelerating preparations for a Hong Kong listing that could come as early as next week, potentially bringing a major new source of liquidity to the city’s stock market amid volatile globa...

Hong Kong Commercial Real Estate Investment Surges 129 Percent in Second Quarter

Hong Kong attracted three point one billion US dollars in commercial property investment during the second quarter, the strongest growth in the Asia-Pacific region as office acquisitions helped draw institutional capital back into the ma...

Hong Kong Plans Broader Tax Exemptions to Attract Global Proprietary Trading Firms

Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau is preparing to extend performance-fee tax exemptions to major proprietary trading firms including Citadel Securities and Jane Street, seeking to strengthen the city’s appeal to inte...

Alibaba Cloud Cuts AI Data Center Deployment Time to One Hundred Days as Enterprise Demand Rises

Alibaba Cloud has shortened turnkey deployment timelines for large artificial intelligence data centers to one hundred days while opening its Qwen model platform to external developers, as Chinese cloud providers move to meet growing ent...

China Warns Pacific Islands Forum Against Taiwan Participation at Palau Summit

China’s Foreign Ministry has urged the Pacific Islands Forum to uphold the one-China principle after Taiwan was announced as a participant at an upcoming leaders summit in Palau, warning that regional diplomatic relations could be affected.

Chinese Property Developers Shift Toward Asset-Light Models as Housing Market Consolidates

Major Chinese property companies including Midea Real Estate are moving away from debt-funded residential land acquisitions toward commercial asset management and property services, seeking more stable cash flow as the housing market und...

Chinese GPU Developer Moore Threads Prepares Hong Kong IPO to Fund AI Expansion

Moore Threads has begun preparations for a Hong Kong stock market listing as the domestic graphics processor developer seeks offshore capital to advance chip design and expand artificial intelligence computing clusters with major cloud p...

China Imposes Provisional Anti-Dumping Deposits on Selected Agricultural Imports

China’s Ministry of Commerce has introduced provisional anti-dumping cash deposit requirements on selected agricultural imports from North America following preliminary trade investigations, seeking to protect domestic agricultural marke...

Chinese Biopharma Developer BeOne Medicines Expands Cancer Drug Partnership Across Asia

BeOne Medicines has signed an exclusive regional licensing agreement with United States-based Revolution Medicines to develop and commercialize four targeted cancer therapies across China and major Asian markets covering two billion peop...

China Directs Electric Vertical Aircraft Developers Toward Cargo Operations Before Passenger Flights

China’s transport and aviation regulators are directing developers of electric vertical takeoff aircraft to prioritize freight and logistics applications, with passenger services to follow only after strict safety standards and supportin...

China’s Power Battery Exports Surge as Global Energy Storage Demand Grows

China’s power battery exports rose forty-two point five percent to more than one hundred eighty-one gigawatt-hours in the first seven months of the year, with strong global demand for utility-scale energy storage helping offset a more me...

Chinese Chipmakers Poised to Capture Up to Ninety Percent of Domestic AI Server Market

Chinese semiconductor designers led by Huawei Technologies are projected to take as much as ninety percent of the domestic artificial intelligence server market this year as local chip production rises more than eighty percent year on ye...

China Tightens Social Security Enforcement, Raising Payroll Costs for Domestic Employers

Chinese authorities are intensifying enforcement requiring employers to calculate social security contributions from actual wages rather than minimum contribution thresholds, strengthening pension and unemployment funds while increasing ...

Hong Kong Considers Extending Tax Exemption to Major Proprietary Trading Firms

The Hong Kong government is preparing guidance that would extend an existing performance-fee tax exemption for private equity and hedge funds to large proprietary trading firms including Citadel Securities and Jane Street, in an effort t...

Hong Kong Exchange Eases Listing Rules to Attract More Mainland Technology IPOs

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has introduced major changes to its listing framework, including lower thresholds for weighted voting rights and new routes for technology and business-model companies, as the city seeks to attract more m...

Hong Kong Police Use Drones to Gather Evidence of Dangerous Driving on Major Highway

Hong Kong police deployed aerial surveillance drones for the first time in a coordinated operation on the Kwun Tong Bypass, using unmanned aircraft alongside undercover vehicles to record evidence of dangerous driving.

Hong Kong Set to Raise 2026 Growth Forecast After Economy Expands 4.3 Percent

Financial Secretary Paul Chan said Hong Kong is likely to revise its 2026 economic growth forecast higher later this month after gross domestic product expanded 4.3 percent in the second quarter, supported in part by a 53.4 percent June ...

Hong Kong Exchange Adds Weekly and Monthly Options on Fast-Growing Technology Stocks

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has begun introducing eighteen new single-stock option classes after derivatives trading volume rose nine percent year on year, with new weekly and monthly contracts covering companies including MiniMax a...

Typhoon Dolphin Remnants Bring Heavy Rain and Flood Preparations to Beijing and Northern China

The remnants of Typhoon Dolphin have triggered severe weather warnings across more than ten provincial regions, prompting Beijing to activate a Level Two flood-control response as forecasts call for more than one hundred and fifty millim...

Chinese Chipmakers Seen Taking Ninety Percent of Domestic AI Chip Market by Year-End

TrendForce projects Huawei and other Chinese semiconductor companies will capture ninety percent of the country’s high-end artificial intelligence chip market in 2026 as local production and advanced packaging expand while United States ...

China’s Central Bank Sets Five-Year Plan to Expand Financial Opening and Global Yuan Use

The People’s Bank of China has outlined a 2026-to-2030 reform plan focused on expanding the renminbi’s use in international trade and investment, upgrading the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System, strengthening Shanghai and Hong Kong a...

China’s High-Tech Exports Jump More Than Fifty Percent in July as Foreign Investors Favor Advanced Manufacturing

China’s high-tech exports rose more than fifty percent year on year in July, far outpacing overall export growth of seventeen point eight percent, while institutions including Nomura and Morgan Stanley reported stronger confidence in the...

China’s Consumer and Producer Prices Fall Short of Forecasts as Domestic Demand Remains Weak

China’s consumer and producer price measures cooled faster than expected in July, underscoring the gap between strong industrial supply and weak household consumption as policymakers seek to support economic recovery in the second half o...

China Tightens Social Security Enforcement, Raising Labor Costs for Companies and Cutting Take-Home Pay

A nationwide campaign requiring employers to calculate social security and pension contributions from actual wages rather than lower baseline amounts is increasing labor costs for businesses while reducing the net income of some workers,...

Alibaba Opens Qwen AI Platform to Outside Developers as It Expands Consumer Ambitions

Alibaba has opened its Qwen artificial intelligence platform to third-party developers, allowing companies to integrate Qwen-powered agents into smartphones, personal computers and smart glasses as the group seeks to expand the model acr...

China’s Four-Hundred-Kilometer-Per-Hour Bullet Train Completes Prototype Testing

China’s latest high-speed train prototype has completed testing ahead of final regulatory inspection and commercial certification, marking a further step toward passenger services at cruising speeds of four hundred kilometers per hour.

Beijing Eases Home Purchase Rules for Non-Local Families in Central Districts

Beijing has lowered social insurance and income-tax requirements for non-local families buying homes in central districts and raised housing provident fund borrowing limits for eligible households, extending efforts to support the proper...

Hong Kong Court of Appeal Allows Eleven National Security Convicts to Seek Further Appeal

The Court of Appeal has granted eleven individuals permission to challenge their convictions and sentences in the Court of Final Appeal in a closely watched national security subversion case, adding a significant judicial development to ...

Hong Kong Employees Report 73 Percent Workplace Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Tools

A survey by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology found that 73 percent of local employees have incorporated artificial intelligence tools into their daily work, underscoring the rapid adoption of the technology and growing ...

Hong Kong Faces Record Heat as Extreme Temperatures Strain Infrastructure and Public Health

The Hong Kong Observatory recorded the city's highest temperatures since 1884 while Tropical Cyclone Dolphin disrupted regional aviation, prompting renewed debate over climate-resilient buildings and stronger protections for workers expo...

Tencent Music Entertainment Set to Report Second-Quarter Results as Artificial Intelligence Push Accelerates

Tencent Music Entertainment is preparing to release its unaudited second-quarter results, with investors watching subscriber retention and the company's expanding use of artificial intelligence across its digital entertainment services.

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong Reports 83 Percent First-Half Profit Increase

Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong reported an 83 percent rise in first-half earnings, supported by a 25 percent increase in international roaming revenue and stronger corporate hardware sales as international business travel continu...

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