China, U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore: Trip.com’s Financial Report Looms : Will It Be a Travel Industry Lifeline or a Shock to…
A view of the city skyline of Lujiazui Shanghai Center in Pudong, Shanghai, China, on March 13, 2024. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets opened higher Tuesday, tracking gains on Wall Street that appeared to look past U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign. Trump on Monday signed an order imposing 25% tariffs on…
Simon Willis said he was trying to instil a “ruthless” culture in Hong Kong cricket, after his team crushed Uganda by 68 runs to win their tri-series on Sunday despite playing at “70 per cent”. Opener Anshuman Rath’s exquisite 107 laid the platform for Hong Kong’s innings of 234, but coach Willis said after the…
Seven-year-old Hong Kong start-up Butler has turned a profit, driven by its artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform designed to help property managers and landlords oversee workflows, its founder said, as more businesses look to capitalise on the rapid advancements in large language models. Butler’s revenue tripled in 2024, and the company achieved profitability in the fourth…
Wealth management and family offices will be a major growth engine for Hong Kong, as many prominent clans in Asia have shown an interest in setting up entities to manage their fortunes, according to Deloitte’s regional head. Dennis Chow Chi-in, Asia-Pacific chairman of the accounting and consulting firm, believes this will mainly be down to…
Washington targeted the wrong Chinese AI firms. One of the last acts of former president Joe Biden’s tech war was to blacklist more than two dozen chip and artificial intelligence companies from China, along with two from Singapore. They included Zhipu, China’s most prominent start-up in developing large language models (LLM) for AI. Unfortunately, DeepSeek…
This is How China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Laos, Brunei, Indonesia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Become the Game…
The Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year is a major celebration in many Asian countries and their diasporas around the globe. Chinese New Year, also referred to as the Spring Festival, is roughly a two-week-long celebration marking the first day of the Chinese calendar year, which lands on Wednesday this year. Each Chinese…
More than a billion people across the world, from China to the Philippines to diaspora communities in the United States, began celebrating the Lunar New Year on Tuesday with fireworks, family time and feasts. On Wednesday, the first new moon of the Year of the Snake will mark the imminent arrival of spring. Known as…
The asset declarations of Hong Kong’s newest ministers have emerged nearly two months after the pair assumed their roles, despite an official guideline stipulating that disclosures must be made within 14 days. Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law Shuk-pui disclosed that she owned a flat for leasing purposes, while Secretary for Transport and…