Hong Kong’s microinsurance market, in comparison, is nascent but no less ambitious. YAS Digital has created an app store as a marketplace for business-to-business and business-to-consumer insurers.
How Hong Kong engineers used lessons from Sars to solve new Covid-19 challenges for hospitals
Veteran engineer Yuen Pak-leung’s first-hand experience with two major public health crises has convinced him his profession is really about people, and finding solutions swiftly when challenges arise …
Front Lines and Hand Signals: Thailand’s Protests Shift Tactics, Influenced by Hong Kong
Demonstrators defied a government ban on large gatherings for the fourth consecutive day to call for the prime minister’s resignation.
Hong Kong cannot afford to say ‘I don’t mind’ to being overtaken by Shenzhen, President Xi’s ‘miracle’ city
“We should build several Hong Kongs on the mainland,” the late Deng Xiaoping once said. That was when China’s paramount leader and architect of the country’s opening up visited Shenzhen, then a …
Coronavirus: Hong Kong wraps preparatory work on ‘health code’ necessary for cross-border travel, as city records four cases on Sunday
Hong Kong has completed preparatory work on a “health code” necessary for cross-border travel with the mainland and Macau, the health minister revealed on Sunday, as the city recorded four new …
Pandemic, politics lead to closure of storied Hong Kong bar
Nearly 15 years ago, Grace Ma decided to name her bar Club 71, in commemoration of a July 1, 2003 rally where hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers protested a proposed …
Patient’s death referred to Hong Kong coroner, botched eye procedures under investigation
The death of a hospital patient with abnormally high potassium levels has been referred to the coroner after the care he received was found to be inadequate, as two more medical blunders involving eye …
Missing Hong Kong protester Alexandra Wong ‘was held in mainland China’
A prominent Hong Kong protester has made her first public appearance in 14 months, telling the media she had been held in mainland China. Alexandra Wong, 64, was nicknamed “Grandma Wong” and was often …
Hong Kong protester ‘Grandmother Wong’ accuses mainland Chinese authorities of keeping her under house arrest for more than a year
A Hong Kong protester known as “Grandmother Wong” has accused mainland Chinese authorities of keeping her under house arrest for more than a year, and forcing her to stand in front of a five-starred …
Hong Kong activist ‘Grandma Wong’ says held 14 months in mainland China
An elderly woman who disappeared midway through Hong Kong’s democracy protests last year resurfaced in the financial hub on Saturday after 14 months away, saying she had been detained on the Chinese …