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Ireland is the only European country that has managed to post positive economic growth during the first year of the global coronavirus pandemic, its GDP increasing by an enviable 3.4% in 2020. This interview sets out how the Irish business community is ready for more dynamic collaboration with Hong Kong entrepreneurs in the post-pandemic future. More

The Covid-19-induced pause in economic activity has offered a glimpse of an alternative green economy. To understand how Hong Kong’s testing, inspection and certification (TIC) industry is readying itself and its clients for a sustainable post-Covid future, HKTDC Research talked to Martin Fan, the managing director of TÜV Rheinland Hong Kong. More

The EU is threatening to impose tariffs and quotas on the UK if, as the EU claims, the UK continues to turn its back on terms it voluntarily agreed to as part of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. The specific issue of contention in this escalating dispute remains the UK’s apparent willingness to make unilateral alterations to the terms agreed between the parties to govern trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland (as contained in the “Northern Ireland Protocol”). More