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Hong Kong’s HK$500b silver economy by 2034 offers ‘ocean’ of prospects: Paul Chan South China Morning Post

Syngenta Files Hong Kong Ipo That Could Raise 5 Billion Bloomberg News Reports

Citigroup has appointed veteran banker Sophia Wang as a managing director and head of China financial-institutional sales and senior relationship management (SRM), marking the latest move by the Wall Street lender to deepen its footprint in mainland capital markets despite ongoing geopolitical friction. Wang joined the bank on Tuesday, according to an internal staff memo. Based in Shanghai, she will oversee institutional sales coverage across rates, spread products, foreign exchange, commodities...

Hong Kong is intensifying efforts to attract technology start-ups and nurture unicorns through expanded financial support via a key government-backed platform, leveraging the city’s booming fundraising activities and world-class financial infrastructure. Investors are displaying an increased appetite for the local tech scene compared with a decade ago – a trend that Terry Wong Ping-sau, CEO of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), said was a positive sign for the city’s...

Hong Kong’s employment outlook rebounds sharply to 14% in fourth quarter South China Morning Post

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China’s securities regulator and its industry body are moving to close compensation loopholes for brokerage management and staff, extending anti-corruption oversight to overseas operations for the first time, as Beijing pushes the sector to build world-class investment banks. The Securities Association of China, a self-regulatory body under the supervision of the regulator, recently sent brokerages a revised draft of its rules on “clean practices”, seeking industry feedback by September 29,...

The ballot to determine flat-selection order for Wang Fuk Court owners seeking new homes under the government’s Special Sales Exercise was held Tuesday morning. For the first batch of applicants, the first 10 numbers drawn, in order, were 25, 28, 75, 12, 56, 99, 59, 64, 36 and 47. Official results are scheduled to be uploaded to the scheme website at about 3pm. Under the exercise, selection order is decided in batches according to the date the government received an owner’s signed "Letter of Acceptance". The first-batch deadline was June 30, and the second-batch deadline was August 31. Within each batch, applicants are ordered by a computer ballot based on the last two digits of their application number. The government has reserved more than 4,400 units across 10 Housing Authority and Housing Society developments for owners who have sold their Wang Fuk Court units to the government, allowing them to buy a new subsidised unit or exchange flat-for-flat. The estates are located in various areas including Kowloon Bay, Kai Tak, Tseung Kwan O, Kwun Tong and Tai Po, with prices ranging from more than HK$1.5 million to over HK$5.3 million. Unit selection is expected to begin this month. An

Yuan Popularity Boost Likely Focus of Hong Kong's Five-Year Plan

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Dogs join diners as Hong Kong bets on the pet economy ft.com

Global X Launched Hong Kong’s First Copper Miners ETF (3014/9014 HK) Macau Business

Hong Kong Boosts Tech Startup Funding to Develop Unicorns - News and Statistics indexbox.io

Hong Kong lays non-stop investment pipeline across MENA internationalfinance.com

Hong Kong man loses HK$13 million in fake crypto investment app scam Crypto News

Over 60 memorandums of understanding (MoU) were signed at the two-day Belt and Road Summit in Hong Kong last week, with a total deal value worth US$3.1 billion – three times last year's figure, the city's Belt and Road Commissioner said on Monday. Nicholas Ho said the 11th edition of the summit drew a more diverse range of foreign government speakers than in previous years, including the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, the Vice President of Uruguay, and other ministerial-level officials from South Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and North Africa. Ho attributed the strong Central Asian presence at the summit to the chief executive's delegation to the region in June, which generated 96 MoUs worth US$1.65 billion. Since that visit, a Kazakh state-owned company has filed to list in Hong Kong, while Kazakh institutions have issued 7.2 billion yuan worth of dim sum bonds — double the total from last year. Ho said his office has been working on inviting officials from different parts of the world. "We want to increase the country coverage. So, apart from just Asean, the Middle East and Central Asia as its core, we have also included South Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and North Af

Ligent Technologies Seeks $727 Million in Hong Kong IPO

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Weeks after sparking a nationwide outcry over its mass dismissal of recent college graduates, Xingyu – a major automotive lighting maker in eastern China – has severely penalised four of its executives and promised to help the former employees find new jobs. Two of the firm’s top executives received salary deductions and two human resources managers were dismissed or demoted for their “misjudgment and hasty decision-making”, the company said in a lengthy statement detailing its recent “mistake”...

Over the past three decades, investor Fang Fenglei has had a major role in shaping China’s capital markets. He worked with Morgan Stanley in the early 1990s to help create the country’s first joint venture investment bank – China International Capital Corp. Then, at the start of the millennium, he spearheaded the listing of state-owned giants in Hong Kong as CEO of Bank of China International, later chairing a China joint venture with Goldman Sachs. Now the chairman of Hopu Investments, Fang...

Lawmaker and non-official member of the Housing Authority Scott Leung is urging swift concrete testing at a public housing development project in Tung Chung to ensure safety. Leung’s call came after the authority confirmed on Saturday that structural components in Blocks 3, 4, and 5 of the project in Area 42 may have failed to meet required safety standards. The authority’s engineering team uncovered the issue during routine concrete cube strength tests carried out between late August and early this month. While the contractor concerned has been instructed to repeat the tests, Leung urged authorities to speed up the process. "Most importantly, the Housing Authority needs to instruct the contractor and relevant stakeholders to complete the re-examination as soon as possible," Leung told an RTHK radio programme on Monday. "This is to confirm whether the problem lies with the procedures followed during spot checks, or whether the concrete strength of the buildings is a concern." Leung stressed that only about a month had elapsed between the discovery of the problem and its public announcement, showing that the authority’s testing mechanism was effective at spotting potential issues ea

Hong Kong IPO boom and Chinese AI race fuel frenzy of follow-on deals Nikkei Asia

Drill Program Underway at Irving Resources Omu Gold-Silver Project Hokkaido, Japan Stock Titan

President Donald Trump said Monday that he would be a sufficient guardrail against rogue artificial intelligence, claiming that any efforts to limit the technology is part of a…

Sakana AI, Turing among Japan startup winners as investors turn choosy

Fujitsu to export AI chips built on supercomputer tech to US, Asia

EUR/JPY extends its gains for the second consecutive day, trading around 179.00 during European hours on Tuesday.

The travel curbs bar citizens deemed a potential threat to national technology security from leaving the country.

Amid pressure from the U.S., chronic yen weakness and inflation, the Bank of Japan looks set to raise rates for the third time in less than 10 months.

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 55-year-old Colombian man on suspicion of stealing jewelry and gems from an exhibition booth at Tokyo Big Sight. Police said Ernesto Gutierrez…

Some AI models have proved more accurate than conventional numerical weather prediction systems in capturing large-scale atmospheric patterns.

U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly stands alone with his rejection of tighter artificial intelligence oversight.

India has spent years trying to become less dependent on China, but it has been buying more, instead, with trade becoming more unbalanced.

Japan's teenage BMX star has Olympic gold in her sights at Asian Games Japan Wire by Kyodo News

Japan's LNG demand stymies response after Putin's disputed-island visit

New Typhoon Set to Hit Okinawa During Silver Week News On Japan

Japan's gold bar scam losses reach 8.13 billion yen in first half Nation Thailand

Japanese Finance Minister (FM) Satsuki Katayama said on Tuesday that the official will not rely on deficit-covering bonds to fund the tax cut. Katayama added that government will scrutinise budget requests for next fiscal year strictly going forward.

BOJ and Fed face critical test as market pressure rises on rates

Hong Kong IPO boom and Chinese AI race fuel frenzy of follow-on deals

Sakana AI, Turing among Japan startup winners as investors turn choosy Nikkei Asia

India's data center boom creates new engine for renewable energy

China growth outlook dims as real estate, retail pressure worsens

The AUD/JPY cross trades on a flat note around 110.20 during the early European trading hours on Tuesday. Markets might turn cautious ahead of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) interest rate decision later on Friday.

Yen Rally Faces Moment Truth Boj Risks Disappointing Markets

Tesla lays groundwork to enter Vietnam's hot EV market

Pakistan's $3bn bond sale signals shift away from G2G borrowing

SoftBank Group plunges 11% after OpenAI says no IPO this year

FamilyMart hopes to quickly tap into trends with AI-developed sweets