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17.08.26 - 03:00
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Hong Kong firm bets on Chinese open-weight models to rival CoreWeave (SCMP)
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The rise of Chinese open-weight models has shaken up the global artificial intelligence (AI) market in recent months. With China's systems offering high performance at a lower cost, businesses around the world are looking at shifting away from Silicon Valley's leading providers.
Now, a new Hong Kong-based company aims to turn that trend into a billion-dollar business.
The “neo-cloud” provider Antimatter is helping firms switch from the dominant US models – and the cloud systems that serve them –......
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17.08.26 - 02:18
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Hong Kong tax reforms for treasury centres will lure multinationals, mainland firms: PwC (SCMP)
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The Hong Kong government's plan to increase tax incentives for corporate treasury centres will be attractive to multinational and mainland firms considering such activities in the city, according to tax experts at PwC.
The government is soliciting public comment from late July until September 4 for a range of tax reforms, after which a bill will be submitted to the Legislative Council in the first half of 2027.
“Enhancing the relevant tax incentives will not only help attract more enterprises to......
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17.08.26 - 01:30
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Launch of Northern Metropolis flats attracts strong interest from Hong Kong homebuyers (SCMP)
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Hong Kong homebuyers flocked to the first batch of units at a major residential project in the Northern Metropolis with 44 – or more than half – of the 82 flats made available via regular sale finding buyers as of 7.30pm on Sunday, according to agents.
Wheelock Properties' Park Silicon project in Kwu Tung North also sold eight units via tender worth more than HK$78.43 million (US$9.99 million), the developer said. The units were among the 18 available via tender starting Sunday.
The positive......
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16.08.26 - 18:00
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Bruce Rockowitz on Why AI Is Reshaping Hong Kong′s Food Economy (SCMP)
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Artificial intelligence is moving quickly from experiment to operating tool, and Bruce Rockowitz believes it is becoming an important competitive advantage for Hong Kong's catering businesses as the city's food delivery economy enters a more demanding phase.
Hong Kong's online food delivery market has evolved from a pandemic-era convenience into one of the city's most intensely contested consumer sectors. Operators now......
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16.08.26 - 08:06
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Buy or rent? Hong Kong homebuyers face an age-old housing dilemma (SCMP)
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Trapped between rising residential rents and the looming shadow of interest rate increases, Hong Kong homebuyers are revisiting that age-old dilemma when making decisions about housing: buy or rent?
The Centa-City Rental Index (CRI), which reflects the rent of second-hand private residential properties in Hong Kong, has been rising throughout the year to 136.34 in July from 129.57 at the beginning of 2026, a cumulative increase of 5.2 per cent.
“The rent is too high,” said Jimmy Lau, who works......
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14.08.26 - 10:48
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Hong Kong′s Insurance Authority aims to broaden regional clientele base: reappointed CEO (SCMP)
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After Beijing's plans to tighten up the taxation of overseas income sent shock waves through the city's banks and insurers last week, Hong Kong's insurance regulator will make broadening the sector's clientele a priority, its reappointed chief said on Friday.
“The priority of the Insurance Authority will be placed on broadening the regional clientele beyond Chinese mainland visitors, ensuring customers are treated fairly and can derive value from insurance products,” authority CEO Clement Cheung......
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14.08.26 - 09:12
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Aktien Asien: Kospi setzt Gewinnserie fort (DPA-AFX)
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SEOUL/TOKIO/HONGKONG/SHANGHAI (dpa-AFX) - Die wichtigsten Aktienmärkte in Fernost haben am Freitag uneinheitlich tendiert. Vor dem Wochenende nahmen die Börsen damit einen Gang heraus.Die volatile südkoreanische Börse profitierte von ......
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14.08.26 - 06:54
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Hong Kong to list first Shanghai free-trade zone bond to defend yuan hub status (SCMP)
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Hong Kong is set to welcome its first Shanghai free-trade zone offshore bond, using the landmark listing to defend its status as the world's pre-eminent offshore yuan hub, amid mounting competition from its mainland rival.
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing announced on Thursday that Shanghai Electric Global Capital – a financing arm of power and industrial equipment manufacturer Shanghai Electric – would list a 1.5 billion yuan (US$222.4 million) green free-trade zone bond on August 20.
The......
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14.08.26 - 05:30
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MTR CEO: Hong Kong Core Business Solid (Bloomberg)
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Jeny Yeung, CEO at railway operator MTR, says the Hong Kong property market and transport patronage has stabilized. She speaks on "Bloomberg: The China Show" after the company posted first-half revenue that beat estimates. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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14.08.26 - 04:06
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Hong Kong insurers to weather Beijing′s tax shift with 8-10% premium growth: S&P (SCMP)
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Hong Kong's life insurers could still see annual premium growth of 8 to 10 per cent over the next two years, despite a recent regulatory shift stemming from Beijing's overseas taxation rules, according to credit-rating agency S&P Global Ratings.
Resilient demand for overseas diversification should prevent a lasting downturn, the agency said, in the latest vote of confidence in the city's thriving insurance and wealth management industries.
“We expect a temporary slowdown in sales to mainland......
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14.08.26 - 03:00
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Insurance Will Propel Hong Kong′s AI Ambition (SCMP)
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At the SCMP China Conference on July 7, Chief Executive John Lee identified AI as central to Hong Kong's push to become a global international innovation and technology centre.
In his keynote speech, Lee spoke about the city's first five-year development plan, a blueprint aligned with China's National 15th Five-Year Plan that will shape Hong Kong's growth and deepen its integration with the mainland.
The direction is......
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14.08.26 - 02:06
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Transit giant CRRC sets down marker in Hong Kong as sales pitch to overseas cities (SCMP)
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Nearly 30 years after the closure of Hong Kong's iconic Kai Tak Airport, state-owned giant China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) hopes to provide the nearby waterfront area – a narrow stretch of land that juts into Victoria Harbour – with a route to better transit connectivity.
Executives from the world-leading railway vehicle manufacturer said the company aims to use the former airport site as a test bed for an autonomous bus system, and a potential runway for overseas expansion.
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14.08.26 - 01:30
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Hong Kong to reappoint insurance regulator as industry braces for tough period: sources (SCMP)
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Hong Kong's government is on Friday set to reappoint Clement Cheung Wan-ching as CEO of the Insurance Authority for another three-year term, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
The move is aimed at ensuring continuity and stability in the city's insurance sector, as the industry faces unprecedented headwinds amid Beijing's offshore tax clampdown, one source told the South China Morning Post.
Cheung, who has led the insurance regulator since 2018, is due to complete his current......
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13.08.26 - 10:30
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Beijing′s offshore insurance tax tests Hong Kong wealth management (SCMP)
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Financial markets have been gripped by concern in recent days over reports that China was introducing a new tax on returns from offshore insurance policies. The significance of the episode could prove more complex than the initial market reaction suggests.
According to a report from Caixin, Chinese tax authorities have sought to collect tax on investment returns generated by offshore insurance policies held by mainland residents, with early enforcement cases reportedly emerging in Beijing and......
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13.08.26 - 09:09
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Aktien Asien: Halbleiterwerte stützen Börsen (DPA-AFX)
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SEOUL/TOKIO/HONGKONG/SHANGHAI (dpa-AFX) - Die wichtigsten Aktienmärkte in Fernost haben am Donnerstag mehrheitlich zugelegt. Sie folgten damit den guten Techwerte-Vorgaben aus den USA.Die Marktstrategen der Deutschen Bank verwiesen auf ......
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13.08.26 - 08:30
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AI surge helps dual-listed mainland China stocks hit 1-year high premium over Hong Kong (SCMP)
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The gap in stock prices for dual-listed Chinese companies trading on the mainland and in Hong Kong has widened to a near one-year high, as state-backed support and renewed enthusiasm for AI bolsters sentiment on yuan-traded stocks.
Shares of the 202 dual-listed companies traded on mainland China's exchanges – known to investors as A shares – averaged a 23 per cent premium over their Hong Kong equivalents, called H shares, according to a Hang Seng gauge tracking the price differential between the......
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