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Investors Turn Off iClick Despite Its Strong Potential, as Move to Hong Kong Remains Likely

Key takeaways: • iClick said its enterprise solutions business more than doubled last year, and is expected to deliver more ‘strong growth’ for the next three years

Benzinga

'China's Warren Buffet' Places Orders For Over $5M Tencent's Shares

A mainland billionaire investor has placed heavy orders on Tencent Holdings Ltd (OTC:TCEHY), Bloomberg reports. Duan Yongping, a billionaire entrepreneur dubbed China's Warren Buffet by Chinese media, has placed orders for more than $5 million of Tencent's U.S. listed shares. The share prices rallied in Hong Kong, making up for some of the…

Benzinga

Domestic workers left homeless after being fired and kicked out for contracting Covid

Live-in workers in Hong Kong have reported being refused entry into their employers' homes after being struck down with the virus - with some left sleeping on the streets or in parks in desperation

Daily Mirror

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You need to stream the best sci-fi movie on Netflix that explains Marvel's multiverse

Before Marvel and DC, there was Jet Li. In 2001, 'The One' pitted the Hong Kong star against himself in a sci-fi romp with nu metal bangers.

Inverse

Hong Kong’s leader urges calm as lockdown fears spur panic buying

Residents strip supermarket shelves bare amid fears of compulsory isolation and family separations.

Al Jazeera

Hong Kong residents empty supermarkets ahead of city-wide lockdown

Hong Kong residents braced for a city-wide lockdown, emptying supermarkets and pharmacies, even as leader Carrie Lam called for calm on Tuesday and appealed for the public not to worry over a compulsory mass COVID-19 testing plan.

Reuters

Alibaba Dips While Tesla Rivals Li Auto, Xpeng Strike Gains In Mixed Hong Kong Market

Shares of U.S.-listed Chinese tech companies — with the exception of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) — traded higher in Hong Kong on Tuesday, even as the benchmark Hang Seng Index drifted lower after a positive start.

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Hong Kong leader calls for calm, after supermarkets emptied ahead of mass COVID testing

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam called for calm on Tuesday after residents emptied supermarkets, stocking up on produce ahead of reports of compulsory mass COVID-19 testing and rumours of a city-wide lockdown.

Reuters

U.S. CDC says unvaccinated travelers should avoid Hong Kong travel

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday recommended unvaccinated travelers avoid travel to Hong Kong over rising COVID-19 cases.

Reuters

Ping An’s Fintech Unit Files for Hong Kong Share Trading

OneConnect proposes listing its New York-traded stock in the city without selling fresh shares or raising funds

Caixin Global

What Nio Investors Should Know About Imminent Hong Kong IPO: Secondary Listing, No Stock Sale, Singapore Plans And More

Nio, Inc.'s (NYSE: NIO) Hong Kong initial public offering plan is finally falling into place.

Benzinga

Caixin Top Stories of the Month: The Beginning of the End of the Post-Cold War World Order

Russia’s military operation in Ukraine has sent shockwaves across the globe

Caixin Global

China Merchants Bank to Join Greater Bay Area Testing Ground for Fintech

Subsidiary of lender will try out AI-backed identity verification tool on mainland customers who open Hong Kong-dollar accounts

Caixin Global

Hong Kong considers lockdown as daily infections top 34,000

Hong Kong reported a record-high 34,466 infections on Monday as deaths continued to climb

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Hong Kong domestic helpers abandoned as COVID takes toll

A rapid spread in COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong has cast a spotlight on the plight of domestic helpers in the global financial hub after some were fired or made homeless by their employers when they tested positive for coronavirus.

Bangkok Post

Virus-hit Hong Kong considering lockdown

Hong Kong may impose a China-style hard lockdown that confines people to their homes, authorities signalled Monday, with the city's zero-Covid strategy in tatters and bodies piling up in hospitals.

Reuters

Hong Kong international schools end confusion over term dates

Hong Kong's international schools can maintain their original term dates, the government said on Monday, a welcome relief for many in the international community, some of whom had planned to leave the city amid widespread confusion.

Reuters

Hong Kong mortuaries hit capacity as COVID deaths climb

Facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries in Hong Kong are at maximum capacity due to a record number of COVID-19 fatalities, the Hospital Authority said on Monday, as officials battle to control a surge in cases.

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Hong Kong reports record daily COVID cases and 83 deaths

Hong Kong reported a record 26,026 daily COVID-19 infections on Sunday and 83 deaths, as an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant overwhelms healthcare facilities and proves hard to control.

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: the geometry of social distancing

Jason Au’s stark but strangely tender image from a sunlit Hong Kong mall sums up our Covid times

The Independent UK

Hong Kong's success in fending off COVID comes back to haunt

For two years, Hong Kong successfully insulated most of its residents from COVID-19, even going nearly three months late last year without a single locally spread case

Reuters

Hong Kong allows COVID home testing as daily cases soar

Hong Kong health authorities said on Saturday they would adjust COVID testing procedures to allow some people to test from home to ease long queues at designated testing centers, as the city's outbreak proves increasingly hard to control.

Bangkok Post

BTS win 2021 Global Recording Artist of the Year award from IFPI

HONG KONG: Superstar K-pop boy band BTS have won the IFPI's 2021 Global Recording Artist of the Year award for the second year in a row, the leading music industry organisation announced on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Hong Kong's new virus cases top 10,000 in spiraling outbreak

Hong Kong has reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period

The Guardian - UK

Covid: Sweden ‘should have clamped down harder’ as pandemic hit; US set to ease mask guidelines – as it happened

Latest updates: Swedish report says government should have shown better leadership at start of crisis; new US mask guidelines expected on Friday

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