All eyes on Wednesday will be on how the government plans to give a big push to its latest investment darling, the Hong Kong Investment Corporation, its three-year-old vehicle that has yielded impressive early gains. Sources told the South China Morning Post that HKIC would come up as a key highlight in Financial Secretary Paul…
Telix (ASX: TLX, NASDAQ: TLX) provided a precision medicine portfolio update on Dec 21, 2025 covering three PET imaging candidates. TLX591-CDx (Illuccix): Phase 3 China study (n=140) met its primary endpoint with overall patient-level PPV 94.8% (95% CI: 85.9%, 98.2%), region-level PPV 100% in prostate bed and non-bone metastases, and…
China’s artificial intelligence still needs to improve in six aspects, from ecosystem to funding, but the emergence of DeepSeek has significantly boosted the sector’s confidence in overcoming US restrictions, according to a mainland venture capital firm. China and the US were the two top players in global AI development, with the former leading in humanoid…
The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) earned HK$2.34 billion (US$300.7 million) in investment income last year, as the city’s wholly owned investment vehicle made an impressive report after its first year of operation. HKIC posted HK$2.25 billion in operating income for the year that ended on December 31, on HK$64 billion in total assets, while…
The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) earned HK$2.34 billion (US$300.7 million) in investment income last year, as the city’s wholly owned investment vehicle made an impressive report after its first year of operation. HKIC posted HK$2.25 billion in operating income for the year that ended on December 31, on HK$64 billion in total assets, while…
Hong Kong Investment Corp (HKIC), the government’s investment arm, on Tuesday appointed 10 asset managers spanning venture capital, private equity, private credit and hedge funds to oversee at least HK$3 billion (US$385 million) under its enhanced cash-for-residency scheme. HKIC said in a statement that the new batch of managers for the investment portfolio under the…
Jeff Bezos joined Sam Altman in admitting the existence of an AI bubble—but Amazon’s founder sees upside. Recently, many AI-related companies have seen voracious optimism and spikes in valuations. In August, the OpenAI CEO told reporters the AI market was in a bubble. When bubbles happen, “smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth,” Altman…
US investors are showing the highest level of interest in Chinese stocks in five years, and their return to China’s market is just “starting” despite some lingering reasons for caution, according to Morgan Stanley. More than 90 per cent of investors had “explicit willingness to increase their exposure to China’s market, the highest level since…
SciSparc Ltd. (Nasdaq: SPRC), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, announced that shareholders of both SciSparc and AutoMax Motors Ltd. have approved their proposed merger. The strategic reverse merger will result in SciSparc acquiring 100% of AutoMax’s share capital, with SciSparc shareholders retaining 50.01% ownership of the combined company….
Given these and other recent milestones, Peng says it’s realistic to think that at least one BCI system could gain approval in China by 2027. Minmin Luo, director of the Chinese Institute for Brain Research (CIBR) in Beijing, agrees that the country is well on its way to meeting the goals set out by the…