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Hong Kong: Strategic Academic Collaboration Boosts Tech Talent
OpenGov Asia
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July 8, 2025
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Tsinghua University have signed three agreements to enable collaboration in electronic and computer engineering, interdisciplinary research, and executive education. These initiatives...
Smart Globe signs logistics deal with COSCO Shipping Africa in Zambia
Logistics Update Africa
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July 23, 2025
Smart Globe Holdings has entered into a logistics services agreement with COSCO Shipping Africa, formalising a strategic partnership at the company’s developing logistics centre in Zambia. The move signals the Hong Kong-based printing and...
“The Way We Talk” Examines Hong Kong’s Deaf Community and Culture
No Man Is An Island
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July 13, 2025
語言: English Photo Courtesy of One Cool Film Production Limited, Lee Hysan Foundation This is a No Man is an Island film review written in collaboration with Cinema Escapist as part of coverage of the 2025 New York Asian Film Festival. Keep an eye...
Hong Kong’s Metropol Restaurant to shut down in September after 35 years
Hong Kong Free Press
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July 8, 2025
Hong Kong’s Metropol Restaurant – one of the few remaining Chinese restaurants in the city that serve dim sum from traditional trolleys – will cease operations in September, after 35 years of service. A Metropol staff member confirmed to HKFP over...
Hong Kong – Chief Executive in Council approves financial arrangement for Part 1 of Northern Link Project (with photo)
Web NewsWire
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July 9, 2025
Chief Executive in Council approves financial arrangement for Part 1 of Northern Link Project (with photo) ****************************************************************************************** The Chief Executive in Council approved today...
RM100 cash boost sends consumer stocks soaring, KLCI ends at day’s high
Malay Mail
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July 23, 2025
KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 — Late bargain hunting of consumer-related stocks pushed Bursa Malaysia to close at its intraday high on Wednesday, allowing the market to recover losses in the previous two sessions. At 5 pm, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI...
Mapletree Logistics Trust posts 12.4% fall in Q1 DPU to S$0.01812
The Business Times Singapore
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July 23, 2025
[SINGAPORE] Distribution per unit for Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT) fell 12.4 per cent to S$0.01812 for the first quarter ended June, from S$0.02068 in the previous corresponding period. The distribution will paid out on Sep 10, after the record...
Hong Kong’s annual anime fair to double venue size to cut waiting times for fans
South China Morning Post
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July 8, 2025
Hong Kong’s annual comics and games fair is set to double its venue size this year to shorten waiting times for fans when it launches at the end of the month, according to the organiser. Ani-Com & Games Hong Kong 2025 is set to run from July 25 to...
Hong Kong’s insurance market may balloon 55% as Greater Bay Area ages
South China Morning Post
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July 8, 2025
Hong Kong’s insurance business may expand by a compounded 55 per cent over the next eight years, driven by the so-called silver economy serving senior citizens and growth in the Greater Bay Area, industry experts said on Tuesday. Gross insurance...
HKMA to Issue First Stablecoin Licenses in Early 2026
Fintech Hong Kong
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August 1, 2025
Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Hong Kong News once a month in your Inbox The first batch of stablecoin issuer licenses in Hong Kong is expected to be granted in early 2026, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said during a media...
Hong Kong: China's IPO Pipeline And Crypto Lab
Benzinga
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July 8, 2025
Image Source: Bamboo Works "Beijing is treating Hong Kong as a laboratory: a place to develop expertise in financial technologies that remain forbidden at home." A confluence of geopolitical friction and strategic diversification is fueling a...
Hong Kong’s hottest Xiaoshu: what does it mean and how can you cope?
South China Morning Post
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July 8, 2025
Hong Kong experienced the hottest Xiaoshu on Tuesday, with the mercury at the Observatory hitting 34.3 degrees Celsius (93.7 Fahrenheit). However, the hottest weather is still yet to come, it warned. The Post explains what Xiaoshu is and presents...
Hong Kong developer Grand Ming’s crisis deepens with US$611 million loan default
South China Morning Post
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July 8, 2025
Hong Kong developer Grand Ming Group warned investors that it has yet to repay a HK$4.8 billion (US$611.4 million) loan, with its gearing ratio surging past 200 per cent – another sign of the growing debt crisis among the city’s small and medium...
The Hui Brothers defined Hong Kong comedy in the 1970s. How they fared later
South China Morning Post
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July 13, 2025
The Hui Brothers – Michael Hui Koon-man, Ricky Hui Koon-ying and Sam Hui Koon-kit – defined Hong Kong comedy in the 1970s with films like The Private Eyes, The Contract and Security Unlimited. But Michael, helped by Ricky, continued to make...
Hong Kong economy’s ‘mixed signals’ portend retail ‘turbulence’, analysts say
South China Morning Post
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July 7, 2025
Hong Kong’s retail industry will experience mixed fortunes in coming months, as rising unemployment threatens to dent consumer spending even as the economy and household incomes improve and tourist numbers surge, according to CBRE. “Right now,...
Hong Kong: Tech-Driven Growth Powers Investment Boom
OpenGov Asia
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July 7, 2025
Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) has reported significant progress in its investment promotion activities, with a strong focus on technology-driven sectors. Between January 2023 and the first half of 2025, the agency assisted over 1,300 overseas and...
A few small steps for Hong Kong, a giant leap for China’s space sector
South China Morning Post
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July 13, 2025
The idea that Hong Kong could play a leading role in the global space economy was greeted with scepticism when I raised the possibility with Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu earlier this month. However, critics fail to realise that space...
Bruckner Orchestra Linz Names New Chief Conductor
The Violin Channel
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August 1, 2025
Conductor Christoph Koncz has been named as the new Chief Conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the Landestheater Linz. He was selected from a competitive field of 170 applicants and will step into the role in September 2027 for an initial...
HK universities see success in drive to attract more top talent from abroad
The Straits Times
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August 1, 2025
HONG KONG – Professor Gao Yang, a prominent scholar in the fields of robotics and aerospace, left King’s College London to join the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in May after being approached to take up new roles there....
Hong Kong to limit the number of stablecoin licenses issued in 2025
Cryptopolitan
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July 7, 2025
Hong Kong may begin issuing stablecoin licenses before the end of 2025. Still, the number will likely remain in the “single digits,” according to Christopher Hui, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury. As per the local newspaper Ming...