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Opinion | Southeast Asia’s energy transition is lacking both finance and policy

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Weijian Shan

Opinion | What China can do to make the best of an escalating US trade war

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Cheah Cheng Hye

Opinion | Why Hong Kong’s stock market must continue to look north

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Opinion | An America awash in global capital risks spreading financial instability

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Outside In | Europe’s battery crisis a humiliating reminder of China’s EV dominance

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Sanofi said the new plant in Beijing will be its fourth such facility on the mainland. Photo: Shutterstock

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China welcomes new US$1 billion Sanofi project in Beijing

Sanofi’s latest capital outlay in China will cover the development of a new insulin plant in the nation’s capital.

China industry bodies call for ‘caution’ in buying US chips amid latest sanctions

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Hong Kong property deals hit 7-month high, but December slowdown looms

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Alibaba Cloud aims high in Southeast Asia with new AI partners

China’s leading cloud services provider is prioritising investments in its operations across Indonesia, Thailand and other markets.

Alibaba’s cloud unit is strengthening partnerships in Southeast Asia. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Alibaba’s cloud unit is strengthening partnerships in Southeast Asia. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

China Business

Record Shenzhen land sale is a confidence boost for China’s property market

China Overseas Land and Investment and China Resources Land snap up 263,000-square-metre parcel in Nanshan district.

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Hongkongers to get ‘Money Safe’ to protect bank funds from fraud

Additional verification procedures will be necessary to transfer locked-up funds when banks roll out the optional tool next year.

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China needs new clean-energy tech investments after wind and solar boom

Greater capital is required in areas such as energy storage, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel.

China is already investing heavily in energy storage, but needs to adopt market-based principles to create more incentives for investors. Photo: Shutterstock
China is already investing heavily in energy storage, but needs to adopt market-based principles to create more incentives for investors. Photo: Shutterstock

China Business

China’s 10-year bond yield slumps to record low, pressuring yuan

‘Staggering’ new low signals ‘chilling risk forecast’ amid a deflationary spiral ‘eerily reminiscent’ of Japan’s long malaise, analyst says.

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Chip war: Chinese firms play down fresh US sanctions, tout local supply chain

Newly blacklisted Empyrean and Skyverse say the sanctions will have little impact, pointing to their local tech stack and domestic customers.

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China Mobile makes takeover bid for HKBN with US$1 billion offer

China Mobile has received undertakings from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and US private equity firm TPG, which hold a combined 25 per cent stake.

Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) is a takeover target for China Mobile and I Squared Capital. Photo: Sam Tsang,

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Hong Kong stocks jump to 3-week high as investors await China stimulus

Biotech firms WuXi Bio and WuXi AppTec soar, while China Mobile slips after making a bid for broadband service provider HKBN.

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A person walks past an electronic screen displaying the Hang Seng Index on November 6. AP Photo

Big Tech

Intel CEO Gelsinger forced out as chip giant falls behind Nvidia

The company board has lost confidence in Gelsinger’s turnaround plan and told him he could retire or be removed, a source says.

Companies

New World CEO Huang has task cut out to set Hong Kong developer’s house in order

Company insider has a solid background, but will have to prove to investors that she is the right person for the job, analysts say.

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ASML says US chip curbs on China won’t affect 2025 sales forecast

The Dutch chip equipment maker says it is studying the impact of the new restrictions, but sees little impact on long-term demand.

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Markets

Hong Kong government invests in 80 start-ups as war chest swells

Flush with proceeds from the city’s successful investment-migration scheme, HKIC puts money in local, mainland and overseas start-ups.

A robot performs in a demonstration at a launch ceremony for an investment by Hong Kong Investment Corp in Beijing-based Galbot, at Island Shangri-La on July 19, 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee
A robot performs in a demonstration at a launch ceremony for an investment by Hong Kong Investment Corp in Beijing-based Galbot, at Island Shangri-La on July 19, 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee

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Swiss luxury watch brand Audemars Piguet makes timely entry in Macau

The watch maker is sprucing up its showroom in Hong Kong and opening more in Shanghai, Beijing and Taipei, CEO Ilaria Resta says.

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C-beauty brand Mao Geping to debut in Hong Kong with US$270 million IPO

Namesake founder rose to prominence as a make-up artist who helped Liu Xiaoqing play an empress who aged from 15 to 80 years in a TV drama.

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Decentralised kingdom: bitcoin’s Trump bump and how China lost its crypto crown

As the world’s factory, China cornered the market on bitcoin mining, leading to a flurry of crypto business activity before a harsh crackdown in 2021.

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Momentum in the cryptocurrency industry appears to have shifted towards the US after Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency, but some see this as temporary. Illustration: Henry Wong
Momentum in the cryptocurrency industry appears to have shifted towards the US after Donald Trump was re-elected to the presidency, but some see this as temporary. Illustration: Henry Wong

China Business

Global CEOs see new hopes, old threats in Hong Kong vs Trump 2.0

‘People are leery of investing a lot of money in a country that is part of geopolitical tensions,’ Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks says.

China Business

How the idea to link up Asia’s 2 largest stock markets was born

The exchange link between Shanghai and Hong Kong went live on November 17, 2014.

Big Tech

Alibaba gives sellers a sweeter deal as Singles’ Day switch-up bears fruit

China’s largest e-commerce firm was slipping in the war for consumers’ wallets. Then it reshaped its relationship with merchants.

Amid a brutal price war in China’s e-commerce industry, Alibaba took a different tack this Singles’ Day with new merchant-friendly policies. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen