HK daily quota used 4.7% SHANGHAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) – China’s blue-chip stocks started the month on a firm note on Monday, with consumer stocks leading gains, as a private survey showing strong factory …
JPMorgan takes 71% in China securities business
JPMorgan will own 71% of its Chinese securities joint venture after completing the transaction to buy a 20% stake from one of its local partners, according to an exchange filing on Monday. The deal, …
Hong Kong mogul Bill Wong looks beyond Covid-19, ready to hire pilots as he prepares Greater Bay Airlines for take-off
Bill Wong Cho-bau, a Hong Kong tycoon who invests heavily over the border, is making a HK$2 billion (US$258 million) bet with his launch of a new city airline that will focus on a region expected to …
Hong Kong fintech startup Statrys nets $5m in angel round
Statrys, a Hong Kong-based digital payment services platform, announced that it has raised US$5 million in a funding round from an angel investor. Founded in 2018, Statrys provides payment solutions …
Do department stores still have a future in Singapore?
In its 162 years of operations in Singapore, department store Robinsons survived bombings, a three-year closure during the Japanese …
Australian IT Consultancy, Servian, expands into Singapore to address urgent regional need for digital transformation
He said Singapore’s position on the world stage hangs … cloud-based solutions that help them evolve their business at speed.” “Having worked with hundreds of organisations in different segments …
Alibaba-owned Lazada suffers data breach for its grocery delivery business in Singapore
Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada said last week it detected a data breach that exposed personal details of many users in Singapore. Lazada’s cybersecurity team discovered on Oct. 29 illegal …
Kyrgyz ambassador visits ICCI
Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan Erik Beishembiev visited the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) to meet …
From Hummus To High-tech: Israel CEOs Seek ‘Friends’, Deals In UAE
He was one of the 13 business leaders who joined a four-day trip to the UAE organised by Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), a venture capitalist firm. Before normalisation, there had been discreet …
UAE SMEs have options to press their legal claims
But the UAE has no such systems in place – or so I thought until I discovered that some protection, albeit modest, exists. In the UAE, the legal process is daunting to most companies, especially SMEs, …