Hong Kong

Tsang announces economic growth strategies

Tsang announces economic growth strategies

Infrastructure investment boost, more diversified business environment promotion, attraction of a wider variety of foreign firms to Hong Kong and enhancement of Hong Kong's accessibility are among the strategies presented.

Cathay Pacific and Dragonair December total number of passengers up 8%

Yet the two airlines carried 142,122 tonnes of cargo and mail in the same month, down 11.9%.

China Everbright International gets support from the National Development and Reform Commission

Changzhou Equipment Manufacturing project has obtained approval for a subsidy of CNY9.7mn from the 2012 Strategic Emerging Industries Fund.

Hong Kong has second best bureaucracy in Asia

Guess who topped the ranking and beat Hong Kong?

Hong Kong companies urged to go international to survive

Hong Kong companies doing business abroad have stouter bottom lines and better profits than those relying solely on the home market.

Hong Kong ranked the world’s freest economy

The Mainland meanwhile ranked 138th out of 179 economies.

Tseung Kwan O site awarded to Fortune Precision

It’s on a 50-year land grant at a premium of $1.86 billion.

Hong Kong struggles to battle deadly air pollution

Stung by the flight of business to Singapore and elsewhere and by over 7,000 avoidable deaths, Hong Kong is getting tough on the city's worsening air pollution.

Hong Kong's stock brokers rally to defend 90 minute work break

When is lunch not lunch?- When it's a Hong Kong stock broker lunch.

Blended Workforces: No longer a contingency plan

Today’s economic climate might look uncertain at best – and grim at worst – but companies can meet the challenges of market volatility by making the right decisions and investing in their people. Traditionally, investing in talent is a costly and often risky affair, particularly when times are tough. However, many of these costs and risks can be mitigated by making some slight adjustments in the type of employee a company is looking for. Flexibility –which not only adjusts to volatile markets but thrives off it – does not have to come at the cost of quality.

Cathay Pacific Airways and HAECO join forces

The two companies sign on airframe inventory technical management.

Mortgage Corp posts $1.26bn profit

The company has maintained the credit ratings of AAA by Standard & Poor’s and Aa1 by Moody’s.

HKRH posts 97% fourth quarter sales growth

Sales of HKRH’s franchisees to their end customers up by 90%.

Shenzhen wants Hong Kong to co-finance a US$45 logistics centre

But this project may potentially steal more of Hong Kong's shipping business and give it to Shenzhen.

Hong Kong posts record gold exports to China

China's insatiable appetite for gold is driving Hong Kong's gold traders to seventh heaven as exports surged 19%.

Social media as chopsticks for liberated entrepreneurs

Once upon a time, Li Ka Shing was the most admired person in Hong Kong, being the richest of all tycoons; HSBC was the most revered company, as it racked in loads of money of which it paid back a fair share to its many small Hong Kong shareholders; and Hong Kong was proud to have the highest density of Gucci, Louis Vutton and Dolce & Gabbana stores in the world.