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HKTDC welcomes budget

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) welcomes the Hong Kong SAR Government’s budget for the 2024-25 financial year, delivered by Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Wednesday.

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HKTDC’s major focus areas promote Hong Kong’s advantages

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) this week announced its major focus areas for 2024-2025 to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as a leading global business and investment hub and C&E centre and create opportunities for Hong Kong businesses.

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Renminbi role set for upgrade

The height and breadth of China’s advance across the world economic stage over the past five decades has been breath-taking, leaving traders and investors wondering where and how to step in.

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Digital solutions drive green transformation

With sustainability an increasingly critical issue across industries, firms are rapidly adopting innovative digital technologies to drive green development.

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Mainland healthtech start-ups shine

The pandemic accelerated medical technology development across the world and especially in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

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UAE takes lead on fintech

With its glittering cities, palm-shaped islands and globe-spanning airlines, the United Arab Emirates has been a leading innovator in the Middle East for many years.

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Asian Financial Forum

The Asian Financial Forum (AFF) is the region’s premier platform that brings together influential leaders from government, finance and business communities globally for ground-breaking discussions and exchange of insights on the global economy from an Asian perspective.

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Logistics firms seek to green fuel tanks

The opening of Hong Kong’s first hydrogen fuelling station and debut of a hydrogen-powered public bus in the city took place at this year’s Asian Logistics, Maritime and Aviation Conference (ALMAC), a point picked up by several delegates.

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Digital promise for financial services

Financial services are central to Hong Kong’s economy, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city’s GDP and it is one of the biggest financial centres in the world.

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Hong Kong entrepreneurial spirit rewarded

Hong Kong has a thriving start-up ecosystem with entrepreneurs innovating in a wide spectrum of sectors, including medicine, F&B and biotechnology.

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IP powers innovation

Intellectual property (IP) and innovation are joined at the hip and the Business of IP Asia Forum, themed IP & Innovation: Steering New Economic Growth, paired with Entrepreneur Day (E-Day), offered industry players a chance to explore both.

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AI works wonders in Hong Kong

Artificial intelligence is changing the world in the 21st century just as profoundly as steam engines did in the 19th century and motor vehicles in the 20th.

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Global entrepreneurs step up

The start-up network is growing and diversifying quickly, extending from traditional hotspots like San Francisco and London to rising giants, such as Hong Kong, while developing economy centres across ASEAN are becoming super-nodes in their own right.

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Green finance looks to COP28

Renewable energy technology is developing at bullet-train speed in Hong Kong and Mainland China, where preparations for the upcoming COP28 United Nations Climate Change conference in the United Arab Emirates in late November are on the fast track.

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Smart and sustainable eyewear fair draws over 12,000 buyers

Eyewear that talks, briefs agents on top-secret missions, shoots laser beams and more has long been a staple of science fiction, but now smart glasses are moving off the silver screen and on to the high street.

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