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The Chinese passion for betting has become a major driver of the Philippine property market. The country has become a magnet for Chinese online gambling operators, barred from setting up shop at home and stifled in Macau by measures aimed at curbing ...

The Canadian bail proceedings for Huawei Technologies chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou have resumed in British Columbia's Supreme Court, with her defence team continuing to argue on Monday that she poses no flight risk and should be r...

Telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies, its semiconductor subsidiary HiSilicon and RoboSense, a maker of lidar sensors used in driverless cars, have become the first Chinese companies to help establish an international non-profit grou...

China is moving rapidly to develop 5G services nationwide after allocating radio frequency spectrum for the next-generation mobile system to the country’s three telecommunications carriers, despite concerns over the legal battle being waged by ...

Hong Kong’s government, which has repeatedly warned against speculation in the world’s most expensive property market, said it would keep public money away from any bailouts of the industry, as the city’s home prices and sales end a...

China intends to announce this month the first batch of US soybean purchases where most, if not all, will be destined for state reserves, according to government officials. The final decision will be made by the State Council or cabinet, said the off...

From a three-story villa in Chongqing to a rundown factory in Jiangsu province, you can search, find, and buy it without leaving your living room in China. Online distressed property sales are booming in the world’s largest bad-debt market. Glo...

China’s overseas oil and gas acquisitions fell to their lowest level in a decade, as volatile oil prices and geopolitical headwinds made deal making harder for Beijing, but state-backed firms are undeterred in their plans. Some 14 deals worth U...

Bourse operator Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing said on Monday it was looking into using robotics and artificial intelligence at the Hong Kong stock exchange, Asia’s third-largest stock market. According to its chief executive, Charles Li Xiao...

One of Huawei’s suppliers has threatened to fine its staff if they buy an Apple iPhone at any time in the next three years, in a bizarre show of support for the beleaguered Chinese technology giant. Menpad, a Shenzhen-based LCD display maker, s...

An executive of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the music industry spin-off of China’s biggest social network operator Tencent Holdings, faces an accusation of defrauding and coercing an early investor to sell his equity stake, ahead of the ...

Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, was arrested last Friday in Vancouver, Canada at the request of the US and accused of fraudulently representing the company to get around US an...

Property tycoon Gordon Wu Ying-sheung’s plan to privatise Hopewell Holdings has gained momentum after the company’s second largest shareholder, Southeastern Asset Management, expressed support for the HK$21.2 billion (US$2.71 billion) del...

At the sprawling Huawei Technologies campus in Shenzhen, the food court’s walls are emblazoned with quotes from the company’s billionaire founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei. Then there’s the research lab that resembles the White House in ...

It has all been a chimera. Markets are waking up to a bad dream and this is where the nightmare begins. Chaos is taking hold and markets are starting to panic. This is what happens when investors believe in the false prophets of “America first&...

Japan decided on Monday to effectively exclude Chinese telecommunication equipment giants Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp. from public procurement, the government said, widening the list of countries that have pushed back against the Chinese technol...

[Sponsored Article] If you're visiting London for the first time, or you live locally, there's no better time to experience the UK capital than Christmas. Whether you need to buy last-minute gifts or you're looking for activities and en...

Stocks in Hong Kong and China tumbled in early Monday trading, as tension grew between China and US over the arrest of an executive at Chinese technology giant Huawei in Vancouver. The benchmark Hang Seng Index declined 1.4 per cent, or 351.02 points...

Anyone who thought last Saturday’s agreement between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to suspend punitive tariff increases on US imports from China signalled a de-escalation of the countries’ economic cold ...

Thirty months ago, in the surreal and depressing wake of the June 23， 2016 Brexit referendum, I wrote here in the South China Morning Post about the “naive craziness that has exploded across the UK”, and “a million mad questi...

A record number of people are seeking to become stockbrokers, futures traders, analysts or fund managers in Hong Kong, as they look beyond the local market’s slump to the day when their licenses can let them serve a market with 10 times the loc...

Hong Kong-listed Chinese maker of high-speed steel and cutting tools Tiangong International said on Saturday it would appeal against an anti-dumping duty imposed by the United States, as it moves to bolster its exports to America amid the US-China tr...

Paris, Madrid and Berlin are the next hotspots for property investors, benefiting from curbs on foreign buying elsewhere and a frisky run-up in home values expected next year, according to an analyst at real-estate consultant Knight Frank. “The...

The Hong Kong stock exchange said on Sunday it had reached a consensus with counterparts in Shanghai and Shenzhen on trading by mainland China investors in Hong Kong-listed companies with dual voting rights. The agreement, which could potentially ben...

Hong Kong could become a regional centre for genetic data sharing that spurs discovery of breakthrough drugs. But the idea faces a huge roadblock: China’s export restrictions on its human genetics data. Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Co...

The People’s Bank of China officially banned security token offering (STO) businesses on Saturday, in another blow to digital currencies in mainland China. An STO is an initial coin offering (ICO) backed by tangibles such as assets, or profit o...

2018 is likely to go down as the “Year of the Red Unicorns,” when for the first time China beats the US in attracting the most global venture capital for early-stage start-ups, private equity data provider Preqin said. Already in the firs...

There was a “ghost at the feast “when G20 leaders met in Buenos Aires for their recent summit. While the key leaders postured and played politics, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, delivered a sobering message that all is far from ...

Adam Smith famously said that “I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” Nowhere is the merit of the great sage’s insight more evident than in the veritable parade of banks that have rus...

Asia is set for a boom in air travel, according to a range of forecasts, but the eye-popping predictions have also brought concerns about congested airports, a lack of pilots and flight safety. The rise of Asia’s aviation sector – describ...

Uber Technologies has filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO), according to three people with knowledge of the matter, taking a step closer to a key milestone for one of the most closely watched and controversial companies in Silicon Val...

Speculative demand over Hong Kong’s shoebox flats – each smaller than the size of a standard car parking space – appears to be over as quickly as it sprouted, following the decline in the city’s median home price. Two potentia...

Martial arts star Jackie Chan has established a sprawling business empire as he rose from a movie stuntman to one of the best-known Chinese actors during his career of more than five decades in the film industry. Chan has amassed a staggering amount ...

Australian quantum physicist Tim Byrnes happily accepted a faculty post to work in China about five years ago, swapping the barbecue for dumplings. But for someone whose work is based on observing nature at the smallest scale of energy levels and ato...

The conviction of former Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho in a New York court and the detention of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Canada have demonstrated the global reach of United States law enforcement. Ho was convic...

China should make concessions to reach a permanent trade deal with the US during the current 90-day ceasefire because it could seriously derail its economic development if it fails, said the chief economic adviser at Allianz Group, Europe’s lar...

US stocks plunged, with technology shares again bearing the worst of the selling amid US-China trade tensions and as the latest batch of economic data added to concern that growth has peaked. The S&P 500 is on course for a weekly decline of 4.6 p...

Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, misrepresented the company in order to get around US and EU sanctions on Iran, a packed courtroom in Vancouver, Canada, heard on Friday. Meng, ...

“You can screw up a lot of the global trade system just by stopping a few things”, says Daniel Hoornweg, associate professor of energy systems and nuclear science at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. And no, he was not ta...

China’s banking regulator has slapped fines of more than 150 million yuan (US$22 million) on six banks for breaching regulations on wealth management products and lending amid an intensified crackdown on financial risks and malpractices. The Ch...

ByteDance, the world’s most valuable start-up, is in talks to raise about US$1.45 billion to invest in artificial intelligence and media content, according to a report by The Information on Friday. The Beijing-based company, which runs news agg...

Embattled Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has agreed to British intelligence demands to address risks in its equipment and software, as the company seeks to be part of the United Kingdom’s 5G mobile network plans, according...

Country Garden, China’s biggest property developer by sales, on Friday appointed Yang Huiyan, the daughter of its founder, Yeung Kwok-keung, as co-chairman. The company, the latest in a string of Chinese property developers appointing the young...

The biggest and last remaining land parcel for a data centre ever to be sold via tender by the Hong Kong government has received nine bids, but markets observers say more needs to be done to realise its dream of becoming a smart city. The bidders for...

China has established a new body that reviews ethical issues in video gaming, marking the country’s latest attempt to tighten control over the world’s biggest games market. The recently formed Online Games Ethics Committee has so far eval...

Singapore Life said the increased investment this week from British billionaire Michael Spencer, who boost his stake in the firm to 63 per cent from 29 per cent, is a precursor to potentially more new investors. Singapore Life chief executive Walter ...

“Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?” The opening line from this children’s nursery rhyme has a surprising amount of relevance to today’s markets. The star in question is actually the “R-star” &...

Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners is ready to sell a Beijing landmark complex to a Chinese firm backed by property tycoon Zuo Hui, two sources said, pocketing a handsome profit after acquiring the asset just over four years ago from Hong Kong mogu...

China’s Fosun Tourism Group , operator of the Club Med holiday business, on Friday said it has raised US$428 million in its initial public offering (IPO), pricing shares at the bottom of a marketed range. Fosun Tourism, part of conglomerate Fos...

The technology innovation board at the Shanghai Stock Exchange, the latest efforts by Beijing to create a Chinese version of Nasdaq, is expected to debut in the middle of 2019 with unprofitable companies likely to be allowed to raise funds. But only ...