VENTURE HONG KONG

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A Peruvian entrepreneur is seeking to develop two-way trade between Mainland China and South America through Hong Kong.

19 May 2022

From the massive rainforests of the Amazon basin to the windblown Tierra del Fuego and icy heights of the Andes, and spanning the 11,000 kilometres between Tijuana and Ushuaia, Latin America presents a massive and diverse market.More

Topics: Electronics & Electrical Appliances, Food & Beverages, Central & South America, Hong Kong, trade, electronics

Fertile Japanese region targets HK

Farmers and craftsmen in northern Honshu offer a bounty of quality produce that presents opportunities for Hong Kong SMEs.

13 May 2022

Tohoku, the northern region of Honshu Island, is a rich source of food, beverages and crafts. Producers in the region are eager to explore overseas markets, and bringing the products to Hong Kong consumers is creating opportunities for the city’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).More

Topics: Food & Beverages, Household Products, Japan, Hong Kong, food, beverages

In-body robots bring benefits

A Hong Kong research team drew inspiration from Hollywood to develop “slime robots” that could offer multiple medical applications.

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

Topics: Medical Supplies & Medicine, Hong Kong, start-up, MedTech

SMEs target passage to India

A recent HKTDC T-box workshop showed exporters how they can move in as this rapidly growing market opens up.

29 April 2022

The vast and rapidly growing market of India is opening up for electronic commerce and presents ample opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Hong Kong.More

Topics: Business Management & Consultancy, Other Asian Countries, Hong Kong, e-business, trade

Health data in an instant

A Start-up Express winner has found a ready market for its technology which monitors body metrics such as pulse and blood pressure.

21 April 2022

Restrictions on movement and face-to-face interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic have created demand for remote health monitoring, particularly for vulnerable people such as those living in residential care homes. Hong Kong start-up PanopticAI is stepping into this breach, and the enterprise’s efforts made it a 2021 winner of Start-up Express, an entrepreneurship development programme run by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC).More

Topics: Medical Supplies & Medicine, Hong Kong, medical devices, start-up

Commercial law harmonised

Traders in Hong Kong can buy and sell goods internationally under a set of uniform rules once a UN commercial law treaty becomes applicable to the city.

07 April 2022

Each economy has its own legal system and traditions as well as trade practices. Hence, cross-boundary contracts by traders, where not regulated by a set of uniform rules, inevitably raise problems of conflict of laws in the sense that in each case it would be necessary to establish which of the various domestic legal systems having connection with the contract will actually apply to it.More

Topics: Legal Services, Hong Kong, Mainland China, legal services, trade

Build your own universe

NFTs help artists, firms and users create, own and trade any form of content online, including true-to-life versions of real people.

31 March 2022

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are pulling real-world assets into the metaverse and giving them value in the content-owner-driven world of Web 3.0. But since the metaverse is content-only and everyone can create items from scratch, or even virtualise real-world performers and let them live forever, why not go all-virtual?More

Topics: Film & Audio-Visual Production, Hong Kong, Taiwan, filmart, MarketingPulse

NFTs the new content kingmakers

MarketingPulse speakers explored the myriad opportunities that blockchain, Web 3.0 and non-fungible tokens are creating.

24 March 2022

During the heady years of dotcom fever in the late 1990s, two phrases commonly bandied about were “content is free” and “content is king”.More

Topics: Business Management & Consultancy, Hong Kong, North America, media, Blockchain

Supply chains play key ESG role

SMEs in Hong Kong are aware that environmental issues weigh on customer decisions, but often need help to adjust their strategies.

17 March 2022

Companies of all sizes can no longer ignore environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their businesses, but small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) often have difficulty assessing and reducing their carbon footprint. This is especially true for their supply chains and production processes.More

Topics: Logistics & Supply Chain, Hong Kong, Green Tech, sea transport

IT drives Industry 4.0

A Hong Kong technology enterprise has taken the opportunity to explore overseas markets amid the pandemic.

02 March 2022

In order to accelerate the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) to create an intelligent manufacturing industry, Hong Kong-based innovation and technology company Nexsen sees Industry 4.0 as an opportunity to actively expand into offshore markets.More

Topics: Electronics & Electrical Appliances, Hong Kong, ASEAN, start-up, ict

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