Remember that scene on the first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday last year, when thousands of employees of Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) formed a kilometric, serpentine line at their corporate headquarters in Shenzhen to personally receive...

You don’t become a tycoon in China if you don’t know how to sell your shares high and buy them low. So, how do we take the news of Tencent’s chairman Pony Ma Huateng selling nearly...

Macau must be heaven for mainland tourists, while Hong Kong is shunned. Most, if not all, of the 27,000 hotel rooms of the six licensed casino operators in the former Portuguese enclave have been fully booked...

They say when it rains, it pours. But some end up with just trickles. Same thing with IPOs. Beijing-based mobile app developer NewBorn Town (09911) saw the retail tranche of its initial public offering oversubscribed 1,400...

First the good news, a mega HK$130 million Mark Six jackpot is up for grabs in the New Year. Now, for a cold fact: in the Jockey Club’s history, there hasn’t been any single winner who...

Like many Hong Kong people, I went to Taipei over the weekend to witness the elections in Taiwan, and the landslide victory of President Tsai Ing-wen. But unlike many who started to monitor the counting of...

TAIPEI — Will it be fish or vegetables? Before you start thinking about food and menus, I’m actually talking about the presidential election in Taiwan on Saturday. Kuomintang candidate Han Kuo-yu, whose name sounds like “Korean...

You must have noticed it yourself as you take the MTR and go to work or school: there are more commuters and pedestrians wearing masks these days – and they are not necessarily demonstrating for “five...

An iconic Hong Kong restaurant has cut its staff by half as it attempts to stay afloat amid reduced business, joining the list of entities that have been hit hard by the months-long social unrest. The...

There is a saying that goes, “Winners do things losers don’t want to do.” But when it comes to Hong Kong politics it seems to be the other way round. Consider this: most of the newly-elected...

April Fools’ Day came three months early this year.  Rumors that Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing was unveiling another relief fund – this time covering not just small retailers but all adult residents of the city – went viral...

Hong Kong has had a bad start for 2020 as a supposedly peaceful pro-democracy rally degenerated into scenes of violent clashes between police and protesters and a lucky draw promising millions of Hong Kong dollars in prizes...

British writer Julian Barnes once said, “Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.” So, welcome back The Wonderful World of Whimsy, the vintage indoor amusement park brand that has returned...

A lot has been said about the unreliability – if not outright doctoring – of China’s economic statistics, particularly its GDP growth figures, which even Premier Li Keqiang has questioned. But it appears the United States hasn’t...

There appears to be a huge generational divide when it comes to work. Take the case of Lenovo (00992.HK) founder Liu Chuanzhi, 75, who is set to retire this week for the third time in his career....

Don’t go to Macau this week. I say this because the atmosphere in the gambling enclave will be anything but relaxing in the next few days as the city prepares for a high-profile trip by Chinese...

The year 2019 will be remembered for the cataclysm brought about by the much-reviled and now-scrapped extradition bill and the massive, often violent, protests that it has engendered in Hong Kong. The upheaval has also spawned...

When Japanese green tea purveyor Nakamura Tokichi landed in Hong Kong in 2015, the local property market was down following the Occupy protest movement a few months back.  It was an auspicious start as it meant...

Just as the civil unrest in Hong Kong is considered the most serious popular challenge to the authority of President Xi Jinping since he took power in 2012, the young protesters in this city of ours...

Christmas is about hope, peace and joy. For those of us living in Hong Kong, what can we expect as we head into the festive season? Will there be some good news at last and a chance...