POLICIES & INSIGHTS

17 June 2022

The rise of so-called “fast fashion” over the past two decades enabled consumers to buy a wider range of clothes at low prices, rapidly boosting the fashion industry worldwide – but the fast fashion trend has led to a string of environmental and sustainability concerns. More

Sustainability

Entrepreneurs green their pitches

07 June 2022

Innovative new green tech firms feature heavily in this year’s Start-up Express as an environmental, social and governance (ESG) award debuts in the programme. More

Market Opportunities

HK draws ASEAN firms to list

31 May 2022

Southeast Asian companies seeking to broaden their investor base are increasingly looking to list on offshore exchanges – and global financial hub Hong Kong ticks all the boxes in terms of their needs. More

Entrepreneurship

Fintech firms gain traction

12 May 2022

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, commentaries on finance have been peppered with the word “reset”, followed by an incredibly wide range of proposals as to what this “reset” may entail. More

Tech & Innovation

In-body robots bring benefits

05 May 2022

The parasitic alien life form is a favourite theme for sci-fi film producers – the Venom and Alien series are two examples that come to mind. In a case of science imitating art, a team of Hong Kong-based researchers have drawn inspiration from Venom to develop a therapeutic invasive slime. More

Tech & Innovation

Healthtech fund focuses on GBA

27 April 2022

As populations age and grow wealthier, and with birth rates in decline, the world has seen a strong growth in demand for healthcare in recent years. The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 gave a new urgency to the need to improve accessibility to healthcare and advance treatment outcomes. More

Market Opportunities

New trade pact draws bullish response

12 April 2022

The rollout of the giant Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a new trade grouping that stretches from Japan on the fringes of the Arctic to New Zealand on the edge of the Antarctic, is driving optimism on long-term business prospects among enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). More

Creativity & Lifestyle

Digital assets take centre stage at FILMART

08 April 2022

This year’s entertainment showcase reflected on the wisdom of working for streaming services and digital portfolios as sources of revenue. More

Tech & Innovation

Ticket to the metaverse

01 April 2022

Just as our view of the universe has changed radically over time – from a flat earth under a dome of sky to a planet on a solar system in one of hundreds of billions of galaxies – so our perception of the rapidly evolving metaverse is shifting constantly. Only in the case of the metaverse its actual state is evolving along with our perceptions. More

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