Christie’s International Real Estate Hong Kong is led by Samson Law, a 30-year veteran of the Hong Kong real estate industry HONG KONG, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Global luxury real estate network Christie’s International Real Estate continues its expansion in East Asia with the launch of Christie’s International Real Estate Hong Kong. The new venture is [...]
LONDON, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — TMF Group, a leading provider of compliance and administrative services, has today launched the 11th edition of the Global Business Complexity Index (GBCI). The annual report analyses 79 jurisdictions across the globe, offering data on key aspects of doing business around the world. At 11th place, Mainland China ranks as the [...]
TORONTO, Dec. 19, 2023 (Korea Bizwire) – As a result of increasing restrictions on liberties in Hong Kong—once among the freest places on earth—it now ranks 46th in the latest Human Freedom Index report, released today by Canada’s Fraser Institute and the U.S.-based Cato Institute. As recently as 2010, Hong Kong was the 3rd freest jurisdiction on earth. Mainland [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The renowned Hong Kong noir film, ‘A Better Tomorrow 2,’ starring Zhang Guorong and Chow Yun Fat, is set to be remade as an animated movie in South Korea. According to industry reports on Tuesday, the animation studio Meditation with a Pencil has inked a contract with Hong Kong’s Fortune [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Tuesday it has won approval from Hong Kong to ship locally bred beef from all regions starting this week, despite a recent outbreak of lumpy skin disease (LSD). Following the country’s first-ever outbreak of LSD in late October, South Korea has been under a [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2023 Squid Olympics was held on Sunday at the Hong Kong’s Southorn Stadium in the neighborhood of Wan Chai. The event, inspired by the South Korea’s global sensation “Squid Game,” hosted a variety of Korean traditional games like “Red Light, Green Light,” “dalgona bbobggi” and “tug of war.” [...]
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Hong Kong Government has today issued a statement entitled “Policy Statement on Development of Virtual Assets in Hong Kong” that sets out its stance and approach to developing a “vibrant sector and ecosystem for Virtual Assets (“VA”) in Hong Kong”. The statement relates that the Hong Kong Government and [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hong Kong will include Korean as one of the foreign languages in its university entrance exam starting in 2025, Seoul’s education ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said its National Institute for International Education and Hong Kong’s state examination board, Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, will soon sign a [...]
Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – CMR Surgical – the global surgical robotics business – has today announced the introduction of the Versius® Surgical Robotic System in Hong Kong at CUHK Medical Centre (CUHKMC) and Gleneagles Hospital Hong Kong (GHK). CUHKMC was the first hospital in Hong Kong to introduce Versius where it is being used as [...]
Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) - Congenica, the digital health company enabling rapid and accurate analysis of complex genomic data to transform people’s lives, today announces that it has been selected to provide tertiary analysis for whole genome sequencing services for the Hong Kong Genome Project (HKGP), the first large-scale genome sequencing initiative in Hong Kong. [...]