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Hong Kong’s eight digital banks have vowed to expand their wealth management businesses in the coming years, after five successful years of drawing customers’ deposits gave them the confidence to venture further into a territory long dominated by bricks-and-mortar banks. All eight of the branchless lenders reported a strong increase in deposits, loans and net…
What is Hong Kong’s answer to Singapore’s Economic Development Board or the mainland’s National Development and Reform Commission? We don’t really have an exact equivalent, perhaps in keeping with our historical stance on the economy, in which the private sector takes the lead and the government role is to facilitate and support. However, in an…
Lars Junker, a German who has lived in Hong Kong for almost two decades, only learned more about who late tycoon Lee Shau-kee was on Sunday during an exhibition. The product designer, in his 40s, was among more than 11,000 visitors who had registered for or attended the five-day commemorative show held by Henderson Land…
Locals and tourists packed stretches of pavement and stairs in Lan Kwai Fong in Central on Sunday night for one of the biggest parties of the year in Hong Kong, outfits shimmering, drinks in hand, the gossip seemingly echoing a block long. Lan Kwai Fong’s biggest landlord, Allan Zeman, said this weekend’s business was better…
Locals and tourists packed stretches of pavement and stairs in Lan Kwai Fong in Central on Sunday night for one of the biggest parties of the year in Hong Kong, outfits shimmering, drinks in hand, the gossip seemingly echoing a block long. Lan Kwai Fong’s biggest landlord, Allan Zeman, said this weekend’s business was better…
Hong Kong customs has arrested two domestic helpers suspected to have been using their employers’ homes to store illicit cigarettes and seized HK$900,000 (US$115, 400) worth of goods. Customs said its officers spotted and intercepted two women, aged 40 and 48, carrying suspicious nylon bags on Sunday at Choi Yuen Estate in Sheung Shui and…
5th May 2025 – (Hong Kong) The sticky-sweet tang of lychee martinis clings to Lan Kwai Fong’s humid air as a kaleidoscopic crowd pulses through its neon-lit arteries. A Shenzhen influencer films a sha zihao dance challenge outside Dragon-i while German engineers debate quantum computing over Tsingtao beers at Peel Street’s curbside barrels. Somewhere above the fray, 75-year-old Allan Zeman—the…
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Ant Group, an affiliate of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group plans to list its overseas arm, Ant International, on the Hong Kong stock exchange, Chinese media reported, citing unnamed sources. Caixin, citing people close to the company, reported that Ant was communicating with regulators about the potential listing. The report did not…
Lars Junker, a German who has lived in Hong Kong for almost two decades, only learned more about who late tycoon Lee Shau-kee was on Sunday during an exhibition. The product designer, in his 40s, was among more than 11,000 visitors who had registered for or attended the five-day commemorative show held by Henderson Land…
Dashcam footage of two young cyclists speeding down a mountain road in Hong Kong and one almost getting hit by a car has sparked calls for greater enforcement of traffic rules to tackle reckless riders and for helmets to be made mandatory. The dashcam video, from a private vehicle heading up a winding road, shows…