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Jan 22, 2025 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
Recent figures from the Hong Kong Tourism Board suggest a robust recovery of our city’s tourism sector, with a surge in both the number and diversity of visitors. Last year brought the city close to 45 million visitors, representing a 31 per cent increase over 2023. Mainland China remains the dominant market, while non-mainland visitors reached 10.5 million, an increase of 44 per cent from the previous year.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
Hong Kong’s economy is expanding, and the outlook remains positive as we close the year. In recent months, the term “low-altitude economy” has taken on prominence in development discussions. At present, about 30 mainland provinces have incorporated low-altitude economy initiatives into their government work reports or launched related policies.
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May 9, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
Hong Kong has slipped out of the top 10 on a list of the world’s busiest ports compiled by shipping industry data provider Alphaliner. The city’s port now ranks 11th, after Dubai’s Jebel Ali port. This marks a significant departure from Hong Kong’s prominence as the world’s top container port during much of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
Nearly seven years ago, Chinese President Xi Jinping witnessed the signing of the framework agreement on deepening cooperation between Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province as part of the Greater Bay Area, which was envisioned as a world-class cluster of cities in the Pearl River Delta. Some two years later, in 2019, the central government released a document outlining the direction for the bay area scheme as a unified economic hub.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ken Chu
Asia 1 day ago Lawmaker suggests banning HK$ to NT$ exchanges taipeitimes.com - By Chen Cheng-yu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer • 1d Taiwan should not allow direct exchanges of Hong Kong dollars into New Taiwan dollars, as the Chinese territory’s economy could be thrown into crisis … Buddhism 3 hours ago How a high-flying Hong Kong lawyer turned wellness coach found her true path, helped by months of silent meditation in solitary Himalayan retreats South China Morning...
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
Over the past two years, Hong Kong’s stock and initial public offering markets have underperformed compared to global peers. Last week, the Hang Seng Index plunged below the psychological 15,000-point mark, sending jitters across the market. Naysayers and those hostile to the mainland authorities and Hong Kong administration seized on the opportunity to peddle the story of a doomsday market crash. This has echoes of the “demise of Hong Kong” narrative painted by some before the 1997 handover.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
hongkongbusinessreporter.com | Ken Chu
Beijing’s support aside, Hong Kong must shine as a financial hubThe central government may have stepped in to defend markets but Hong Kong needs to show its ability to fend off regional challengers, such as by tapping its Middle East and belt and road connectionsOver the past two years, Hong Kong’s stock and initial public offering markets have underperformed compared to global peers.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
On December 1, the Centa-City Leading Index, which is the de facto benchmark for secondary private home prices in Hong Kong, reached a six-and-a-half-year low of 151.06. Local housing prices have fallen considerably since the index rose to a record high of 185.62 points in September 2021. Before Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu delivered his policy address in October this year, there were calls by developers for property cooling measures to be scrapped.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 00372-8&sz=64)
cell.com | Yi Xia |Jeffrey Lin |Ken Chu |Jenny Yang
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
scmp.com | Ken Chu
The third Belt and Road Forum held in Beijing last week marked the 10th anniversary of the initiative, a massive strategic infrastructure project and bold foreign policy undertaking, ushered in by President Xi Jinping. In rolling out the event after a devastating pandemic, and amid geopolitical instability, regional strife and global economic uncertainty, China sent an unmistakable message that it wishes to see the world return to growth and stability through cooperation.
