HONG KONG

Fast-track Procedure Used by European Parliament for Swifter Introduction of Covid-19 Certificate

07 April 2021

The European Parliament announced on 25 March that its members (MEPs) have accelerated the approval of the Digital Green Certificate, which would in principle allow for free movement and safe travel during the covid-19 pandemic. The Commission had published its proposal for this certification on 17 March 2021. More

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Start-Up Hong Kong: Optimising Opportunities in the Greater Bay Area

07 April 2021

Rocky Yu, founder of Qianhai Gangjunda Shenzhen Business Services Co Ltd, talked to HKTDC Research about the business environment in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in recent years, and about areas that Hong Kong start-ups in the GBA should pay special attention to. He discussed the tremendous potential in cross-border e-commerce in the GBA and advised Hong Kong enterprises operating on the mainland to stay vigilant and flexible. More

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State Department Says Hong Kong Still Does Not Warrant Differential Treatment from Mainland China

01 April 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has certified that Hong Kong still does not warrant differential treatment under U.S. law in the same manner as U.S. laws were applied to Hong Kong before 1 July 1997. As a result, the United States will continue to treat Hong Kong as part of mainland China for purposes of various U.S. statutes, including those regulating U.S. export controls as well as country of origin marking requirements. More

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Digits take pandemic pulse

01 April 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the marketing world both in what marketers do – they must cope with seismic shifts in product and service demand – and how marketers do things – restrictions on travel and physical contact have turbo-charged digitisation in the industry. More

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Hong Kong Start-Up Survey: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ecosystem

01 April 2021

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Hong Kong Toy Story: Trending Toys and Proprietary IP

31 March 2021

Trending toys with proprietary IP have overturned the boundaries and value chains of toys, and won the hearts of toy owners aged from 0 to 80. It is believed that proprietary IP toys, which require low initial development costs and are not classified as exclusive or non-exclusive IP licences, can be the way forward for the industry. More

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Fertile ground for biotech

31 March 2021

COVID-19 has swept the world in the past year. Being able to make clinical diagnoses quickly and accurately is of crucial importance in combating the increasing threat of infectious diseases. More

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Start-Up Hong Kong: The Biotech Boom

30 March 2021

Making use of disposable microfluidic “Lab-on-Chip” (LOC) technologies and portable and rapid testing instrument, a local biotech start-up Sanwa BioTech has developed a rapid virus testing device that helps shorten the waiting process and reduces the overwhelming workload of laboratory staff. Sanwa’s Chief Executive Officer Kelvin Chiu shared with us Hong Kong’s experience in developing biotech and his views on the local start-up ecosystem. More

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Navigating Covid-19: A Film Enthusiast

29 March 2021

The local film industry has been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, as cinemas closed and production was upended for much of 2020 due to social distancing measures. Despite these headwinds, local filmmaker and distributor Golden Scene is throwing its support behind the once-glittering industry by opening a four-screen cinema in Kennedy Town. More

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Robots to carry, clean, cover

29 March 2021

Helping businesses deploy autonomous robots at scale, Rice Robotics hopes to make its machines an integral part of daily life — initially in Hong Kong and eventually in global markets as well. More

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