25-03-2017 09:41
HONG KONG: Hong Kong said Friday (Mar 24) it would recall Brazilian meat from 21 processing plants under investigation over a rotten meat scandal.
22-03-2017 17:49
BRASILIA: Brazil's giant meat industry suffered a heavy blow on Tuesday (Mar 21), when Hong Kong became the latest to ban imports in response to allegations of rotten meat being sold with falsified certificates.
20-03-2017 09:52
SonKim Land Corporation, a leading Vietnamese real estate developer, received the IAIR Award for “Company of the Year for Leadership Property and Real Estate Vietnam” at the 7th IAIR Summit and Awards held at the Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel and Towers.
17-03-2017 08:51
“Vo ba” (The Third Wife), a Vietnamese film by director Nguyen Phuong Anh and producer Tran Bich Ngoc, won the post-production and “Hong Kong to Cannes” awards at the 15th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which took place in Hong Kong (China) from March 13-15.
10-03-2017 11:42
HONG KONG: Energy firms led a broad sell-off in Asian markets on Thursday (May 9) following a five per cent plunge in oil prices, but the dollar held on to gains after a surprisingly strong US jobs report.
08-03-2017 09:39
HONG KONG: Investors in most Asian markets built on the previous day's advance Tuesday (Mar 7) but with caution hanging in the air the gains were limited by concerns over Donald Trump's lack of detail on economic policy as well as geopolitical risks.
02-03-2017 12:00
HONG KONG: Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, is "definitely bidding" for the chip business of Japan's Toshiba Corp and is "very confident" it can buy into it, company founder Terry Gou said on Wednesday.
02-03-2017 10:38
HONG KONG: The dollar firmed in Asia Wednesday (Mar 1) after two top Federal Reserve officials suggested US interest rates could rise this month, while Donald Trump's speech to Congress received a mixed response.
01-03-2017 11:00
HONG KONG: Asian nations must spend US$26 trillion by 2030 on infrastructure to battle poverty, boost economic growth and fight climate change, the Asian Development Bank warned on Tuesday (Feb 28).
01-03-2017 10:11
HONG KONG/BARCELONA: Staff at China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd are bracing for possible jobs cuts after internal memos highlighted intense pressure to improve earnings and an executive said the flagship smartphone business had missed internal profit targets.
17-02-2017 09:48
HONG KONG: The dollar dipped on Thursday (Feb 16) in Asia as investors brushed off another record Wall Street close and upbeat US data while the rally in stock markets stuttered.
11-02-2017 11:41
HONG KONG: The dollar extended a rally on Friday (Feb 10) after Donald Trump said he would release details of a "phenomenal" tax-cut plan, sending Asian stock markets soaring on hopes it will ramp up the US economy.
13-01-2017 09:23
The Asia-America Gateway (AAG) submarine cable broke once again, causing bandwidth loss from Viet Nam to Hong Kong, Singapore and the US.
28-12-2016 12:00
HONG KONG: An elderly man has died of bird flu in Hong Kong in the city's first human case of the disease this winter, authorities said Tuesday (Dec 27).
22-12-2016 09:43
Hong Kong-based China Everbright International Limited (Everbright) has received the investment certificate to develop the first waste-to-energy plant in the Mekong Delta in general and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho in particular.