Digital transformation

Passion for science starts young

The pandemic shifted global economic and trade activities online and upended the traditional face-to-face education model, with online learning platforms springing up to bring students varied learning experiences.

Education AI VR

Young talents see green

Young entrepreneurs were born into a world where the commercial internet was already an everyday reality, and mobile phones were ubiquitous.

Belt and Road Green energy Environmental pro...Green constructio...Green industry

Digital school for digital world

Advances in science and technology have created a market hungry for software engineers. Catering to market demand, start-up Rocket Academy has introduced intensive programming education, offering online programming courses to train software engineering talents.

Education Industry 4.0

Design-led innovation enriches lives

Good design addresses everyday problems, enriching people’s lives. Such design meshes with technology to disrupt markets.

Design Services Australia Art Health Medical

Multicultural team keeps track

International metropolis Hong Kong, which brings together outstanding innovators and talents from around the world, has launched Kodifly, a start-up developing three-dimensional space perception and computer vision technology.

AI Industry 4.0 Robotics

NFTs unleash true potential of ticketing and memberships

When it comes to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), there is a fierce debate on whether they are digital artwork or speculative assets. Moongate, a start-up in Hong Kong, holds different views.

Start-up Express Web 3 e-ticketing NFT

CENTRESTAGE draws 7,700 buyers

Fashion industry players see Hong Kong as an ideal platform for launching brands and trading, and expect online sales to continue surging, a survey of apparel buyers and sellers shows.

Fashion Clothing Apparel Design

Taking ESG into public square

ESG is trending among companies globally, helping them go green and achieve sustainable development, but in the eyes of Arthur Lam, CEO and Co-Founder of Hong Kong start-up Negawatt, that is far from enough to make an environmental impact.

Hong Kong Tech & Innovation Sustainability Start-up Express ESG e-commerce sustainability retail green tech prop tech

Watch world has time for Hong Kong

Timepieces are a key industry in Hong Kong, with exports of finished items and components amounting to HK$54.8 billion (US$6.98 billion) last year and the United States, Mainland China and Europe the main destinations.

Jewellery Watches & Clocks Clocks Apparel Marketing

Start-up tackles dining pain points

Staff and management costs are persistent pain points for the catering industry. Hong Kong start-up DimOrder has developed a system that covers everything from diners’ orders and check-out to restaurant management and ingredient procurement, letting restaurants implement digital management and streamline operations.

Payment E-commerce Robots Food

Food producer goes from farm to table

A university-based Hong Kong start-up has rolled out a successful business strategy, bringing alternative proteins and plant-based F&B into the market, and becoming a promoter of superfood and future food.

Mainland China Green production Food Beverages

Belt and Road spotlight on Saudi Arabia

The Belt and Road Initiative has grown and extended rapidly over its first decade and the Middle East has moved into the spotlight in recent years.

Saudi Arabia Investment Fintech

International Food, Tea Expos draw over 20,000 buyers

The HKTDC Food Expo’s global trade show, Food Expo PRO, and Hong Kong International Tea Fair have returned, drawing more than 20,000 buyers from 69 countries and regions, after travel restrictions fell away and participants could taste the food and beverages on offer following a three-year look-but-don't eat hiatus.

Food & Beverages Wellness Beauty Marketing

Innovative Hong Kong draws overseas enterprises

Innovation and technology (I&T) are important forces driving long-term economic development. The Hong Kong SAR Government has contacted more than 200 companies so far in its drive to attract innovative companies to the city, of which more than 25 had already settled or were planning to settle in Hong Kong, or expand their business scale in Hong Kong, with an investment of more than HK$17 billion (US$2.17 billion).

Industry Technology Biotech

Technology brings classical art to life

Artificial Intelligence-generated art brings to mind futuristic creations featuring galaxies or previously unknown life-forms, but it can be turned to classical art genres, as is the case with engineer and artist Victor Wong.

Innotech Technology Electronics Art AI