Hong Kong has a healthy fruit market with a wide range of products, from blueberries to durian, much in demand.

A firm that began marketing dried tropical fruit in temperate Europe has found success in sun-soaked Hong Kong.

Hong Kong fertile market for UK fruit supplier

The two-day Think Business, Think Hong Kong (TBTHK) promotion in the Thai capital last Thursday and Friday received an enthusiastic response from Thai government officials and business leaders.

Over 2,000 buyers from eight ASEAN countries joined the TBTHK promotion event in Bangkok, showing great interest to leverage the Hong Kong platform.

Think Business, Think Hong Kong concluded successfully

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is maturing into a key market and investment destination for Hong Kong firms, as well as a source of commodities and capital. Bangkok, capital of Thailand, lies in the heart of this fast-growing region.

Think Business, Think Hong Kong showcases the city as a premium business location and explores Hong Kong-Thailand collaboration opportunities.

HKTDC takes Hong Kong to Bangkok

Think Business, Think Hong Kong – 成就機遇．首選香港 – is a signature promotion campaign organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) to showcase the city as a resilient business and innovation hub facilitating global businesses to capture new demands and realise business opportunities worldwide.

The HKTDC is bringing back its series of promotional conferences and next stop is Bangkok.

Think Business, Think Hong Kong

Trade, investment and business collaboration between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is growing rapidly. Legal disputes are bound to arise and Hong Kong is perfectly placed as a litigation and dispute resolution centre.

DoJ and HKTDC launch their campaign with a delegation to the leading ASEAN country to advance Hong Kong’s role as an Asia-Pacific centre for international legal, dispute resolution services

Resolve2Win debuts in Thailand

Hydroponic cultivation calls to mind galleries with thousands of plants growing on shelves under but Hong Kong start-up Farmacy HK is rolling out Farming as a Service (Faas), supplying vending-machine sized Smart Mobile Farms to bring herb and vegetable cultivation right to consumers.

The HKTDC helps the creator of innovative hydroponic farms take its farming as a service model to Australia and Thailand.

Concrete jungle goes green

As the Belt and Road Initiative reaches its 10th anniversary the international intermodal railway – the China-Laos Express connecting Chengdu, Chongqing and Vientiane, the capital of Laos – has gone into operation, greatly improving the flow of people and logistics between Mainland China and Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) members, and has also led more and more mainland companies to choose to expand their business to Southeast Asia.

A mainland logistics firm and its Thai counterpart seek to boost their global footprint after linking up at Belt and Road forum.

Enterprises go global through summit

Mainland China presents massive domestic sales opportunities. The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) led Hong Kong companies to participate in the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai last year and helped Hong Kong companies find partners to introduce organic and healthy foods from countries along the Belt and Road to the mainland market.

A Hong Kong health-food distributor gears up to bring fresh organic products from near and far into Mainland China.

Bringing a world of health home

More than 200 Thai business leaders joined a lunch seminar organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) in Bangkok yesterday (21 November), affirming the Thai business community’s confidence in Hong Kong’s role to help businesses in the region grow and tap into opportunities in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Entrepreneurs in one of the leading ASEAN economies are eager to use the city as a springboard for expansion.

Thai business looks to Hong Kong

Companies in Thailand, one of the largest Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economies, hope to expand both within ASEAN markets and across the world – and could turn to the active financial markets of Hong Kong to raise funds.

Companies in one of the biggest ASEAN economies could have much to gain from listing in Hong Kong.

Finance opportunity for Thai firms

As business digitalisation accelerates, data and applications to store and process it grows in importance but can be expensive. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may find outsourcing their data housing to professionally managed data centres is the most cost-effective approach.

Catering to the needs of today’s increasingly digitalised and internationalised businesses, a Hong Kong-based data-centre operator is expanding its Asia-Pacific network with support from the HKTDC.

Boosting network expansion

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are accelerating campaigns to upgrade brands, transform e-commerce systems and develop new production and supply chains to ensure they remain viable as long-term businesses.

A programme helps Hong Kong SMEs move manufacturing to this vibrant region.

T-box highway to ASEAN

As fintech transforms traditional banking, with all financial institutions becoming fintechs and the metaverse becoming a venue for a parallel banking system, the industry’s talent transformation will need to go beyond swapping pinstripe suits for denim.

New skillsets will be in demand as a transformation sweeps through the financial industry.

Fintech sparks talent rush

Vibrant Asian economies have long been known for their adaptability, switching focus rapidly when circumstances change. Hong Kong and Thailand are fine examples of flexible economies and businesses in both have moved rapidly to adjust to the new circumstances brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. What is more, their trade promotion bodies put a premium on bilateral collaboration.

Hong Kong and Thailand enhanced their trade and promotion links amid COVID-19.

Dynamic economies adapt to challenges

HKTDC’s GreenBiz HK campaign in Bangkok deepens regional ties.

Connecting sustainability ambitions across Asia

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