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Hong Kong is world’s second biggest biotech funding hub

TINY HONG KONG is now the second largest biotech fundraising hub in the world. By far the largest in Asia, it is second only to New York in raising funds for health-related companies. The southern Chinese city has been moving up the scale since a dramatic stock market reform in 2018 allowed biotech firms…

March 24, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Videos

Video: Chinese-style giant 3D ads are spreading

The eye-catching new 3D ads which went viral from Chongqing and Chengdu are now spreading around the world. Companies in China and South Korea have developed technology that can be easily applied to buildings which have screens on two sides or a curved screen. Fridayeveryday editor Nury Vittachi reports.

March 23, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Sunny Chai: When the god of scales weighed his options

ONE OF THE MOST positive moments in Sunny Chai Ngai-chiu’s life was, in a way, also one of the most negative. And that proved a turning point for him. He was in his 30s when he stood before a panel of experts. He was a finalist for the prestigious title of Young Industrialist Award of…

March 22, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

Death-defying risks for a cup of tea

When the civil war of China ended in 1949, Tibetans carried bags of silver dollars on a long journey along a thousand-year old path through the mountains on an important mission: to ensure their tea supply. Emily Zhou reports THE PEOPLE OF TIBET and the surrounding high-plateau lands had a problem. They needed tea.…

March 21, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Culture

Sorry, cafe society, tea-drinkers are still ahead

CHINA’S NATIONAL DRINK, tea, is the most popular drink in the world. More of it consumed than all the cappuccinos, lattes and espressos in the world. At least one study says more tea is drunk than all other drinks put together -- coffee, fizzy drinks, wine, beer, juice and everything else. The daily number of…

March 21, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

News

How Emperor Ketchup and pals made a billion $ this week

ApeCoin is cryptocurrency but the money it creates is real enough Emperor Tomato Ketchup and friends suddenly made it big Coins were “airdropped”, with some people becoming instant millionaires Americans and Hong Kongers played key roles in the launch A NEW CRYPTOCURRENCY token has been an instant hit, with US$9 billion worth being traded in…

March 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

A SERIES OF QUIET innovations has led to the creation of an extraordinary milestone: the world’s first true Digital Court system. You file a lawsuit, fill in the forms, present evidence, and get the legal ball rolling – and then get out of bed, because you are still in your pyjamas. Anxious to do away…

March 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

‘I’ll never give up on Hong Kong’: businessman Allan Zeman

The Canadian tycoon had a fascinating talk with our friends at Tatler Asia about his struggles with the pandemic and addresses the viral WhatsApp message he sent to chief executive Carrie Lam. Extract below, and link to the full interview at the bottom: MENTALLY, DEALING WITH the pandemic has been very difficult. We’re going on…

March 17, 20220Comments ByAllan Zeman

News

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Initial hostile reactions to quarantine facilities and the vaccines in Hong Kong (arson attacks, mind control accusations, and "a way for Beijing to steal our DNA!") seem bizarre to us now, but they are just two years old. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT of criticism regarding deaths in Hong Kong’s fifth wave of Covid.…

March 17, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

THE HIGHEST POINT on Earth is an irregular slope measuring just three to four square meters in size. The air is thin, the temperature is freezing and the rocks are encased in a three-meter-thick covering of ice blanket. These are sights only seen first-hand by those who successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest, people…

March 16, 20220Comments ByLinda Xi Tianqi

Hong Kong is world’s second biggest biotech funding hub

Video: Chinese-style giant 3D ads are spreading

Sunny Chai: When the god of scales weighed his options

Death-defying risks for a cup of tea

Sorry, cafe society, tea-drinkers are still ahead

How Emperor Ketchup and pals made a billion $ this week

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

‘I’ll never give up on Hong Kong’: businessman Allan Zeman

Mind control and Molotovs: Hong Kong’s special pandemic challenges

Climber aims to scale physical and mental peaks

Hong Kong quietly becomes major tennis hub for the world

3-parent baby case led to one of the oddest reviews in HK legal history

This child has three parents: so who is his mother?