Category: Hong Kong
HK strike hits tycoon’s image
Hong Kong’s billionaires are used to being at the centre of criticism over a widening wealth gap, but as the city’s largest strike in nearly six years stretches [...]
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Qantas targets HK approval for budget airline by year end
Qantas Airways Ltd (QAN) expects to get approvals to start a budget carrier out of Hong Kong by the end of the year as Australia’s biggest airline seeks to tap travel [...]
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HK looks to other contracts for after hours trade
Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd, which today starts after hours trading in equity futures, will later offer trading on currency, interest-rate and commodity futures, [...]
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Investment firms bet on future HK ‘fund factory’
Several international fund houses are planning to use Hong Kong as a base for their investments after the government vowed to turn the city in a “world factory” [...]
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HK ship owners seize chance as Africa trade soars
Burgeoning trade between China and Africa and sales by German shipping investment funds have combined to create opportunities for two fledgling Hong Kong ship owners. Tribini [...]
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31 injured in HK ferry crash, police say
Thirty-one people were injured in a collision between a passenger ferry and another vessel off Hong Kong island late Friday, police said, in the latest accident to hit the [...]
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31 injured in HK ferry crash: police
Thirty-one people were injured in a collision between a passenger ferry and another vessel off Hong Kong island late Friday, police said, in the latest accident to hit the [...]
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HK port strike enters seventh day
Several hundred striking Hong Kong dockworkers are refusing to back down in a weeklong pay dispute that is slowing cargo shipments at the world’s third busiest port. [...]
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Citic Bank falls after earnings miss estimates: HK mover
China Citic Bank Corp. (998) shares fell the most in more than 10 months in Hong Kong trading after 2012 earnings missed analyst estimates, as the market reopened after a [...]
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Strike at HK port drags on
The world’s third-busiest container port is in danger of losing its competitiveness to its Asian rivals as a crippling strike in Hong Kong dragged on into its sixth day [...]
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HK man seeks $407m from Las Vegas Sands
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is squaring off with Hong Kong businessperson Richard Suen in Las Vegas for the second time. Suen says he’s owed $328 million (S$407 [...]
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HK businesses vanish as rents soar
Over the past decade, car-repair shop owner Benny Chan has seen more than 70 percent of his small-business peers disappear as his Hong Kong neighbourhood fills up with [...]
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HK businesses vanish as rents soar
Over the past decade, car-repair shop owner Benny Chan has seen more than 70 percent of his small-business peers disappear as his Hong Kong neighborhood fills up with [...]
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HK Air ups capacity to Thailand
The carrier will add a fourth weekly flight on its Bangkok-Hong Kong route and use a larger jetliner on its daily Hong Kong-Phuket service, said an executive in the Bangkok [...]
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HK women seek official help with forced eviction in Fujian
Two Hong Kong women are appealing to the city’s administration to intervene after gangsters allegedly beat up their family at their house on the mainland earlier this [...]
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