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World’s 50 Best Bars 2025: Bartender guests shifts to catch in Hong Kong
2025 is a special one for alcohol-lovers and barhoppers, because the most anticipated bar event of the year – The World’s 50 Best Bars ceremony – will be held in Hong Kong for the first time. This is only the second time that this prestigious...

Hong Kong stock rally takes a pause as investors gather profits
Hong Kong stocks fell on Friday as investors took profits, especially in high-flying sectors, pausing a recent rally but keeping the benchmark on track for its biggest weekly gain since March. The Hang Seng Index lost 0.5 per cent to 27,138.24 as...

Hong Kong seeks innovative green solutions to tackle climate change, extreme weather
But experts caution that sluggish progress risks derailing those targets, leaving the city more vulnerable to extreme heat, rising sea levels and increasingly severe storms. In the first eight months of this year, the city has already been hit by...

House in Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay targeted in HK$5 million burglary
A house in Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay was burgled on Friday morning while its owner was travelling, with an estimated HK$5 million (US$642,530) in cash, handbags, watches and gold bars stolen, the Post has learned. A source said a safe inside the...

House in Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay targeted in HK$5 million burglary
A house in Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay was burgled on Friday morning while its owner was travelling, with an estimated HK$5 million (US$642,530) in cash, handbags, watches and gold bars stolen, the Post has learned. A source said a safe inside the...

Hong Kong: New publication examines common pitfalls in digital insurance sales system
The eleventh edition of Hong Kong Insurance Authority's (IA) publication CONDUCT published in September 2025 has revealed the major findings from the three-month mystery shopping exercise on insurance-related roadshow activities conducted by the...

Hong Kong property deals surge anew in September on rate cut, buoyant stocks
Deals covering new and lived-in homes, office spaces, shops, car parking slots as well as industrial units were estimated to have risen 6.2 per cent month on month to 6,862 units in September, with the total value up 14 per cent to HK$54.35...

Hong Kong seafood restaurants showing signs of strain from weaker economy
Hong Kong has long boasted one of the world’s highest per-capita seafood consumption rates, but the closure in August of a high-profile seafood restaurant has highlighted the challenges facing the city’s seafood distributors. Glorious Seafood...

+8 Partners-owned Arete Adjusting expands to APAC with Hong Kong office
Arete Adjusting, a third-party administrator part of +8 Partners, has expanded into Asia Pacific with the launch of its Hong Kong operation, the company said in a press release. Arete Adjusting Asia P...

One of the biggest issues in the mining industry is its image - Nikol Pashinyan
ArmInfo. One of the biggest issues in the mining industry is its image, as stated by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan during his speech at the 2nd International Mining Forum Armenia. He emphasized the need to address this issue,...

Chagee opens its largest flagship yet, in Hong Kong
Chinese tea chain Chagee has opened its largest flagship worldwide on Lee Tung Street in Wan Chai, its seventh location in Hong Kong. The store spans more than 11,000sqft across two levels. Its double-storey format combines retail, cultural...

The 4th Institutional Digital Assets Summit “Liquidity 2026” Has Officially Announced That it Will be Held in Hong Kong
LTP, a leading global institutional digital asset prime broker, today officially announced that the Fourth Edition of its flagship annual summit, Liquidity 2026, will take place on February 9, 2026, at the JW Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong. With the...
Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Suspends Joey Lo Wai Hon For Four Months
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has suspended Mr Joey Lo Wai Hon, a former responsible officer (RO) of MTF Securities Limited (MTF), for four months from 30 September 2025 to 29 January 2026 for failing to properly manage credit risks...

Has Hong Kong’s retail sector turned the corner after August’s sales surge?
Hong Kong’s unexpectedly robust retail sales in August were bolstered by a surge in tourism and a strong local stock market but recovery remains uneven, with businesses of popular consumer goods preparing for potential price wars driven by the...

100 Hong Kong wartime aerial photos on display reveal WWII details in Kowloon
About 100 Hong Kong wartime aerial photos being exhibited for the first time reveal valuable details about the World War II air raids in Kowloon, similar to the one associated with a bomb recently unearthed in Quarry Bay, a historian has said....

Tasveer Film Market Announces 17 Projects To Be Showcased At Industry Hub “Connecting South Asian Stories With Global Executives”
EXCLUSIVE: Representatives of some major production companies will be heading to Seattle next week for the second annual Tasveer Film Market, “North America’s first industry hub connecting South Asian stories with global executives.” MonkeyPaw...

Ride-hailing regulation shows Hong Kong is moving in the right direction
More than a decade since the first ride-hailing service took to Hong Kong’s streets, the law is finally catching up. Government proposals could legalise and regulate ride-hailing apps by the end of next year. Occasional crackdowns on illegal...

Ceci Lee the new face of Hong Kong cycling at National Games
The last time Ceci Lee Sze-wing competed at the National Games, she was able to mostly operate in the shadow of Hong Kong Olympian Sarah Lee Wai-sze – not any more. Both women won gold in Shaanxi in 2021, but while the latter has retired, Ceci Lee...
Hong Kong court refuses to send Congo mining feud to arbitration
The Hong Kong court refused to compel arbitration (Credit: Shutterstock/Lee Yiu Tung) A Chinese state-owned entity has failed to persuade a Hong Kong court to send a dispute over alleged fraud at a Congolese mining venture to arbitration. Register...

Hong Kong’s Citybus raises staff salaries by 2.5%, matches rival KMB
Hong Kong franchised bus operator Citybus has raised salaries for its frontline staff by 2.5 per cent, matching the pay increase offered to all employees by rival KMB. Citybus, the second largest franchised bus operator in Hong Kong after KMB,...