Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce in southern China

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupts iPhone production, cross-border e-commerce in southern China

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupted production of Apple’s iPhones in Shenzhen and crucial pre-holiday shipments by cross-border e-commerce merchants, as the year’s strongest storm barrelled towards southern China with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds. The world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, on Tuesday suspended assembly work at its Shenzhen unit – the innovative Product…

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South China’s Greater Bay Area boasts world’s largest innovation cluster

South China’s Greater Bay Area boasts world’s largest innovation cluster

A portion of China’s Greater Bay Area has been named the world’s largest innovation cluster, underscoring Beijing’s drive for technological self-reliance at a time of rising geopolitical uncertainties with the United States. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou technology hub – the heart of the bay area plan – has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world’s largest innovation…

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Exclusive | ‘Silver economy’: Hong Kong’s boomers flock to Greater Bay Area to afford retirement homes

Exclusive | ‘Silver economy’: Hong Kong’s boomers flock to Greater Bay Area to afford retirement homes

The retirement needs of Hong Kong’s baby boomers consist of three pillars: stable income, access to affordable and quality healthcare, and reasonably priced accommodation, according to the chief executive of BOC Life. “These aspirations of a generation with significant wealth now entering retirement are easily attainable, as the quality of cross-border healthcare services improves and…

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Exclusive | ‘Silver economy’: Hong Kong’s boomers flock to Greater Bay Area to afford retirement homes

Exclusive | ‘Silver economy’: Hong Kong’s boomers flock to Greater Bay Area to afford retirement homes

The retirement needs of Hong Kong’s baby boomers consist of three pillars: stable income, access to affordable and quality healthcare, and reasonably priced accommodation, according to the chief executive of BOC Life. “These aspirations of a generation with significant wealth now entering retirement are easily attainable, as the quality of cross-border healthcare services improves and…

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Typhoon Wipha forces evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in southern China

Typhoon Wipha forces evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in southern China

Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China have been evacuated and flights and trains cancelled as a result of Typhoon Wipha. The China Meteorological Administration issued an orange typhoon warning, the second highest level in the four-tier system, on Sunday, expecting Wipha to make landfall between Zhuhai and Zhanjiang in Guangdong province on Sunday…

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