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Can architectural design help companies keep their employees happy and healthy? One Space and sister firms UNStudio and UNSense certainly believe so, and use data to understand the behaviour of end users of a space.“By understanding behaviours...

Hong Kong is the world’s most expensive city to live in, die in and – guess what – get hitched in. The average cost of getting married in the city rose by 10 per cent last year to HK$360,577 (US$45,982), according to online lifes...

Word got around last week – while the Auto Shanghai 2019 trade show was in full swing – that China’s economic planning agency was mulling an easier process for drivers to obtain licences in the world’s largest vehicle mark...

There are many things in life we take for granted. Recent breakdowns in Hong Kong’s MTR system serve as a reminder that a functioning transport system is critical for a city to run efficiently.  For many years, global investors took an indepe...

China’s senior communist leaders have congratulated themselves on saving the country’s economy from a hard landing during a trade war with the United States and they have decided to focus on “structural reforms”, instead o...

The optimism expressed by officials from China and the United States suggesting the trade war is almost over has not trickled down to small exporters exhibiting their products at China’s largest export fair, who fear that, with or without a de...

The first day of the Easter holiday has proved to be big disappointment for Sun Hung Kai Properties.Hong Kong’s largest developer by market value sold just five out of 113 flats on offer at its Park Yoho Napoli project in Yuen Long – th...

China’s stocks rose on Friday, with the benchmark reaching a 13-month high, as a profit forecast from bellwether China Life Insurance spurred optimism that corporate earnings growth will pick up.The Shanghai Composite Index closed 0.6 per cent...

Appliance queen Dong Mingzhu may soon become the standard bearer for China’s effort to its reform state-owned businesses.Outspoken chairwoman Dong is widely known to the Chinese public because she appears in many of the adverts for Gree Electr...

On May 1, Japan will restart its clock, drawing the curtain on the Heisei era of Emperor Akihito and waking to a new – and hopefully brighter – Reiwa era of 59-year-old Emperor Naruhito. For many Japanese, this is perhaps not a moment t...

China has promised to manage grain import tariff quotas within World Trade Organisation rules after losing an agriculture trade dispute case with the United States.A World Trade Organisation (WTO) panel decided that China’s system of tariff ra...

Western institutional investors who have joined the coal divestment movement are finding it difficult to pressure Chinese companies to reduce their carbon footprint despite Beijing’s commitment to the Paris Agreement.Analysts say there are two...

Happy Friday, traders. Hong Kong markets are closed and will reopen Tuesday due to the Good Friday and Easter Monday holidays, meaning no stock connect trading as well as no trading on the city's exchange. But there will be plenty of action on Chi...

Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC and its long-term Chinese ally, the mall operator Grandjoy Holdings Group, have been selected for a pilot programme that will allow individual Chinese investors to buy shares in rent-yielding properties for the f...

Mainland China’s investments in overseas properties plunged last year amid stringent capital controls and a push by the government to get companies to put their money into belt and road infrastructure projects instead.The vacuum left behind ha...

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou’s decision to make a run for Taiwan’s presidency creates “uncertainty” for the world’s largest iPhone assembler, and could threaten Apple’s long term relationship with the company, ...

Leica Camera AG has sought to distance itself from a promotional video – depicting photographers covering the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown three decades ago – that has landed the German company in hot water in China.The five-minute...

China’s biggest game publisher Tencent Holdings has received approval to distribute a Nintendo Switch game on the mainland, paving the way for the Japanese video game maker to bring its latest console to the world’s biggest gaming marke...

China’s stocks fell from a one-year high, as carmakers ran out of gas following a rally spurred by speculation about government stimulus to bolster car salses.The Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.4 per cent, or 12.92 points, to 3,250.20 at t...

The odds of capital exodus from China and of a slide in the value of the yuan exchange rate have diminished thanks to China’s steady domestic growth, progress in trade talks with the United States and the decision by the US Federal Reserve to ...