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Beijing's newly enforced tax rules put off mainland visitors from buying insurance policies in Hong Kong in the third quarter of the year, according to Insurance Authority CEO Clement Cheung Wan-ching. “We have seen some mainlanders taking a wait-and-see approach to buying insurance policies in Hong Kong as they need time to study the tax rules,” he said during a media briefing at an insurance conference on Thursday. China has tightened controls over mainland families' use of cross-border wealth......

Extreme one-minute price swings have become a routine symptom of liquidity stress in Hong Kong's $7 trillion equity market, occurring at a rate far higher than a standard model predicts, a new study shows....

BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - Hong Kong will on Friday release Q3 figures for gross domestic product, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity.GDP is expected to expand 1.9 percent on qua......

Hong Kong retail landlords are expected to see rental income improve in 2027 as stronger tenant sales feed into lease renewals, but the recovery will be concentrated in prime shopping destinations, while community malls continue to face falling rents. Higher turnover rents and improved lease-renewal terms would support landlords' rental income next year, particularly at luxury-focused malls, Citigroup said in a report on Tuesday. But the outlook points to a market in which rental performance is......

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SEOUL/TOKIO/HONGKONG/SHANGHAI (dpa-AFX) - Die Aktienmärkte in Asien haben am Donnerstag nachgegeben. Damit kamen sie nach den vorherigen Gewinnen etwas zurück.Die Börsen reagierten auf durchwachsene Vorgaben. "Einerseits sorgen weiter ......

More Cancer Cases But Fewer Deaths In Hong Kong Hong Kong has made considerable progress in reducing cancer deaths, despite a steady increase in diagnoses over the past four decades. Between 1983 and 2023, annual new cases rose from approximately 15,000 to 38,000, while the age-adjusted mortality rate fell from 136.7 to 71.1 per 100,000 people. Cancer nevertheless remains the city's leading cause of death, responsible for nearly 15,000 fatalities in 2023. Medical advances have contributed to improved survival, but healthcare professionals believe further progress depends on prevention, earlier diagnosis and better access to treatment, according to the South China Morning Post.One major concern is that many patients only discover their illness after it has progressed significantly. In 2023, more than half of lung cancer cases and over 45% of liver cancer cases were identified at advanced stages, limiting treatment options. Although Hong Kong has established screening services fo...

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Hong Kong's initial public offering (IPO) market has endured a tough few days, with all six listings launched this week priced at or near the bottom of their marketed ranges amid tepid institutional interest. Chinese memory product maker Hosin Electronics and Xiaomi-backed chipmaker Zhuhai Amicro Technology became the latest firms to debut on the city's stock market on Thursday, joining Hong Kong's busiest week for IPOs in months after a sluggish August-to-October stretch. Both firms trimmed......

Co-organised by the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC), the closed-door SCMP C-Suite roundtable welcomed Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po as guest of honour, alongside HKIC CEO Clara Chan as guest speaker. Held under the theme “From APEC Consensus to Action: Hong Kong's Five-Year Plan and Strategic Role in China's Next Phase of Growth”, the discussion explored how the city's development strategy aligns with China's 15th Five-Year Plan and its implications......

The Hong Kong stock market's initial public offering (IPO) pipeline is set to become more diverse in 2027 as global investors will show a greater appetite for solid Chinese companies in fields including biotechnology, advanced manufacturing and renewable energy, according to Citigroup. As demand for artificial intelligence-related equities waned, international institutions would remain keen to allocate a large portion of their assets to China's world-beaters when they listed in Hong Kong, said......

IMC Trading expects to roughly double headcount in its Hong Kong office over the next two years, the latest sign of a rush among foreign firms to expand in the city....

Chinese memory product maker Hosin Electronics Co. and robotics technology platform Amicro Technology Co. are set to begin trading on Thursday in Hong Kong in a test of investor appetite for technology stocks in the region ahead of Anthropic PBC's blockbuster US listing....

China is planning to issue dollar-denominated sovereign bonds in Hong Kong, extending a busy stretch of offshore fundraising this year....

Alibaba has applied to list chip-design unit T-Head in Hong Kong, as the Chinese tech giant braves a cooling initial public offering (IPO) market to raise funds for artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. The Hong Kong stock exchange has approved the proposed separation and a confidential listing application was filed in September, Alibaba said in a statement on Tuesday. T-Head, which provides full-stack data centre chips, will remain a unit of the company. Alibaba also owns the South China......

Assets under management in Hong Kong would double with the addition of just a small portion of the money global insurance and pension funds have to invest, according to a member of the Financial Development Services Council (FSDC). Hong Kong should do more to attract this so-called patient capital – assets that insurance companies and pension funds invest for the long term, said the government think tank that promotes the city as an international financial centre, in a report on......

SEOUL/TOKIO/HONGKONG/SHANGHAI (dpa-AFX) - Die Aktienmärkte in Asien haben am Mittwoch zumeist weiter zugelegt. Trotz wieder aufgeflammter Zinsdiskussionen in den USA knüpften die Börsen an die gute Entwicklung vom Vortag an.Die mäßigen ......

Tender submission for the Urban Renewal Authority's (URA) To Kwa Wan Road/Wing Kwong Street development scheme closed after 12pm on Wednesday, with the authority announcing that 3 submissions had been received. Consortia that submitted tenders for the development project included CK Asset and China Overseas Land & Investment, while Sino Land partnered with Great Eagle for their bid. The URA's district-based redevelopment scheme in To Kwa Wan is divided into eight contiguous development projects,......

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Hong Kong is pivoting to an offshore hub of Beijing's tightly controlled financial framework, according to a report that examines the city's evolving role under China's national development strategy. The study, published this week by Enodo Economics and the Asia Society Policy Institute's Centre for China Analysis, challenges years of Western commentary portraying Hong Kong as a diminished international financial centre following years of political upheaval. “Beijing is not simply managing the......