Archive for May, 2019
Business Briefs 31 May 2019
* Power Engineering Consulting Company No.2 (TV2) will start trading over 12.3 million shares on the Hochiminh Stock Exchange on June 6 at the initial price of VND151,000. [...] » More
Asian markets slump over slowdown fears
Asian markets largely fell Thursday as Beijing ratcheted up its rhetoric against Washington, fanning investor anxiety over the US-China trade war and a potential global [...] » More
Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam added to US currency watchlist
The US Treasury added Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam to a watchlist for currency manipulation, putting their foreign-exchange policies under scrutiny. Singapore made the [...] » More
Why Alibaba’s HK IPO May Signal a Chinese Retreat From Wall Street
Clay Chandler here, filling in for Adam from rainy Hong Kong where everybody is buzzing about Alibaba. As we briefly mentioned on Tuesday, the Chinese tech behemoth is [...] » More
Exclusive: HK judges see risks in proposed extradition changes
Some Hong Kong judges fear they are being put on a collision course with Beijing as the special administrative region’s government pushes for sweeping legal changes [...] » More
HK’s Basic Law allows for same-sex marriage restrictions, city’s lawyers argue in landmark LGBT court challenge
Lawyers for the government on Wednesday argued that Hong Kong’s constitution allowed for not recognising same-sex marriages and civil unions, as the city’s first [...] » More
HK leader Carrie Lam survives first no confidence vote, as democrats cite ‘lies’ over extradition row
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers have put forward the first no-confidence vote against Chief Executive Carrie Lam, which took place amid escalating international [...] » More
Cigarette Giant Rolls Into HK With IPO Plan
It won’t win the award for the most politically correct initial public offering. But that’s not stopping cigarette behemoth China Tobacco, also known as CNTC, [...] » More
Hundreds of petitions appear in protest of HK’s controversial China extradition bill
Hundreds of petitions have appeared over recent days in opposition to the Hong Kong government’s controversial extradition bill, attracting thousands of signatories [...] » More
‘No easy fix’ for HK firms affected by tariffs as US customs tightens scrutiny, former trade official says
Hong Kong businesses impacted by the US tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods have “no easy fix” but could consider several strategies to minimise their [...] » More
Taiwan holds military drills, vows to defend against Chinese aggression
Taiwan’s air, sea and land forces conducted a drill to repel an invading force on Thursday, as its defence minister pledged to defend the self-ruled island against [...] » More
Taiwan should diversify exports amid trade war: IMD economist
Taiwan needs to diversify the products it exports and the markets it sells to if it wants to ease pressures it faces from the United States-China trade war, an economist with [...] » More
Taiwan’s military trains for a Chinese invasion on the beach
Taiwanese tanks and soldiers have fired at simulated Chinese forces in an anti-invasion drill on the island’s coast. The live-fire drill on Thursday at a beach in [...] » More
Beijing angered by Taiwan president’s meeting with Tiananmen Square activists
Tsai Ing-wen met last week with Chinese activists involved in the democracy protests, the first Taiwan president to do so in 30 years President Tsai Ing-wen’s recent [...] » More
No military purchases from Taiwan companies on US blacklist: MND
Taiwan’s military has not purchased products from eight Taiwanese companies that have recently been put on a US Department of Commerce blacklist, military officials [...] » More
