HKTDC RESEARCH

The National Medical Products Administration recently issued two announcements (Nos. 31 and 32 [2021]) about regulating registration and filing procedures for cosmetics and their ingredients.More

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

The State Council decided at its executive meeting on 24 March to further extend the policies of deferring payments of principal and interests on inclusive loans to micro and small businesses (MSBs) and providing funding support to the end of 2021.More

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