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Taobao sold twice as much as Amazon

Chinese shopkeepers are quietly conquering the world. A new survey shows three of the planet’s top four internet shops globally are Chinese, and Alibaba's Taobao did twice as much business as Amazon.com. (Sorry, Jeff.) Graph from Insider Intelligence.com How did they get so big so quickly? One factor is home location – there are A…

November 14, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Voices rising to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story

AN INCREASING NUMBER of people are speaking out to tell the truth about Hong Kong and Mainland China, top Hong Kong business leader Herman Hu Shao-ming said. “Today, many voices are trying to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story of what is happening our city and our country,” he told a conference. “Many of us…

November 9, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong stepping up intelligence ops: John Lee

THE STRUGGLE TO KEEP Hong Kong safe is not over, the city’s leader John Lee Ka-chiu said. “There are still underlying national security threats from different fronts,” he warned. In response, the city is putting more resources into intelligence gathering, the Chief Executive told a conference. “We will step up efforts in gathering and…

November 9, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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U.S. has launched ‘economic warfare’ against Chinese: FT

THE PRESENT U.S. administration’s determination to stop the world selling vital semiconductors to China “is an act of economic warfare”, top Financial Times columnist Martin Wolfe wrote on Friday. The move “is far more threatening to Beijing than anything Donald Trump did,” he added. “The aim is clearly to slow China’s economic development. That is…

November 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

BITCOIN BROS, SALVATION is coming. Hong Kong is quietly creating retail markets for virtual assets. The city is using its considerable financial clout to create special share markets where people can buy and sell crypto currencies, NFTs and so on. It’ll be just like buying and selling regular currencies—but with new age assets, which you…

November 7, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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A fairer, safer world can be achieved, forum hears

Much optimism about the future of Hong Kong and the wider world was expressed by a range of expert participants at a high-powered forum which featured the city's new leader John Lee Ka-chiu yesterday (November 2, 2022). Scroll down for a detailed "press briefing" summary of the conference from the Friday Culture team. Click…

November 3, 20220Comments ByFriday Culture

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Musk accelerates plan for WeChat copy; Facebook, Apple follow

ELON MUSK’s “project x” team has started intense work behind the scenes to make a copy of China’s WeChat app for the western world. Top executives are filing out of Twitter HQ in San Francisco, leaving the company’s arriving leaders free to follow their plans - first, to increase free speech on the app, and…

October 28, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Primary children to swap crayons for coding: 2022 Policy Address

Hong Kong's new leader John Lee showed himself determined to build on Hong Kong's many success stories in his maiden Policy Address, given yesterday. Below is a summary of the main points. Or scroll down for a link to a video summary of the story. CHILDREN; GIVE THE crayons a break. Primary school kids…

October 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Goodbye ‘human rights’: political scientists in plea for change

(Caption: concepts of 'human rights' and 'democracy' must be revisited to be more inclusive. Image: Brooke Cagle) GOODBYE, “HUMAN RIGHTS” AND “DEMOCRACY”. Hello, common values. It has become obvious that so-called "universal" concepts are not universal at all and must be urgently revisited, a panel of top international political scientists said today. The…

October 13, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Hong Kong ranked ‘world top city’ for universities

HONG KONG IS arguably the world’s top university city, a new survey reveals today. Five of the top 100 academic institutions on the planet are located in Hong Kong, according to an annual study published this week by Times Higher Education of London. Hong Kong beat London and Paris for number of academic top performers…

October 12, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

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Taobao sold twice as much as Amazon

Voices rising to tell a broader, deeper, fairer story

Hong Kong stepping up intelligence ops: John Lee

U.S. has launched ‘economic warfare’ against Chinese: FT

Hong Kong setting up forex market for virtual assets

A fairer, safer world can be achieved, forum hears

Musk accelerates plan for WeChat copy; Facebook, Apple follow

Primary children to swap crayons for coding: 2022 Policy Address

Goodbye ‘human rights’: political scientists in plea for change

Hong Kong ranked ‘world top city’ for universities

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?

Scientists find ‘feminist paradise’ existed more than 4 millennia ago