VENTURE HONG KONG

Taking versatile bamboo home

Inspired by ubiquitous scaffolding around the city’s high-rises, a Hong Kong eco-entrepreneur found out the plant has myriad uses.

18 February 2021

British-born eco-entrepreneur Julia Washbourne set up a sustainable homeware and lifestyle products store in Hong Kong more than a dozen years ago. More

Topics: Household Products, Garments, Textiles & Accessories, Hong Kong, eco-friendly fashion, textile

Robotic helping hands

Inspired by witnessing the effects of a stroke, a Hong Kong entrepreneur is turning robots into carers amid COVID-19.

10 February 2021

In setting up robotics company HandyRehab six years ago, Co-Founder and CEO Alvin Cheung had a vision to improve quality of life for people with disabilities and those taking care of them.More

Topics: Medical & Healthcare Services, Hong Kong, Robotics, health

COVID innovators win accolades

From food-delivery robots to crowd-scanning temperature monitors, entrepreneurs are at the frontline in the pandemic fight.

04 February 2021

The fight against COVID-19 requires much more than vaccines. Tools to help maintain social distancing, environmental hygiene and disease monitoring are also essential. And all these call for information technology-heavy applications–and innovators.More

Topics: Association & Government, Hong Kong, start-ups, e-business

Hong Kong maintains IPO bull run

International business consultancies expect the financial hub to lead the global IPO market this year.

28 January 2021

Market followers believe Hong Kong is on track for a bumper year of inbound capital investment, with historically high levels of total initial public offering (IPO) fundraising that will top the world chart.More

Topics: Finance & Investment, Hong Kong, Mainland China, investment

2020 pivot year

Beneath the COVID-19 noise, Asia quietly confirmed its new role as world leader, a Nobel economics laureate believes.

21 January 2021

Looking back on 2020 as we clear the threshold into 2021, most would certainly describe the past 12 months as the Year of COVID-19 since the pandemic occupied all news feeds and minds.More

Topics: Association & Government, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Fintech, trade

Greater Bay Area prospects perk up

Most producers in the fast-growing region have cleared the COVID-19 hurdle, Business Confidence Index shows.

14 January 2021

Autumn was already giving way to spring in the minds of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area businesses in the fourth quarter of last year, the GBA Business Confidence Index (GBAI) indicates.More

Topics: Association & Government, Banking Services, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Greater Bay Area

Healthy hot meals at a distance

A Hong Kong start-up brings the sharing economy into the restaurant business.

07 January 2021

Office-worker dining is an integral part of the social scene in Hong Kong.More

Topics: Food & Beverages, Hong Kong, start-ups, e-business

Hong Kong numbers add up

A Southeast Asian accounting group holds faith with its expansion into the city despite COVID-19.

31 December 2020

Hong Kong was always part of the regional expansion strategy envisioned by Lawrence Chai, Founder of Singapore-headquartered corporate service provider 3E Accounting Group, and he was not about to be deterred by the COVID-19 pandemic.More

Topics: Finance & Investment, Hong Kong, e-business, start-ups

AFF looks to digital future

Leaders from the world of finance will gather at an appropriately online conference to plot the way forward.

24 December 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic drives change across the world, the financial industry has been far from immune. The steady march of digitalisation which had been reshaping the global financial world has turned into a sprint.More

Topics: Finance & Investment, Hong Kong, e-business, asian financial forum

Hong Kong open for IP business

The online BIP Asia Forum shows travel restrictions are no barrier for the exchange of information, ideas and talent.

17 December 2020

Walk half a block down any street in the Central business district of Hong Kong and you will pass people from two dozen countries and regions.More

Topics: Licensing, Technology, Hong Kong, start-ups, e-business

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