Lenders to the office tower appointed receiver Alvarez and Marsal in September to seize the asset, filings at Hong Kong’s Companies Registry and Land Registry showed, as the world’s most indebted developer struggles to emerge from its debt crisis. The tower had been pledged for a HK$7.6 billion loan fromContinue Reading
This week India hosted its 12th DefExpo in Gandhinagar in the western province of Gujarat. With its theme of “Path to Pride” – and guided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” and “Self-Reliant India” campaigns – it not only showcased India’s state-of-the-art defense technologies but seemed to unleash its so-called “animal spirit” in […]Continue Reading
National sandboxes and policy frameworks need to keep up with Web3
Web3 communities more engaging, greater monetising opportunities Web3 gained much interest from cryptocurrency enthusiasts, large technology companies, and venture capital firms last year, marking its evolution from a nascent community into a budding industry. However, optimism over Web3, a new iteration…Continue Reading
Cases of graft in the army’s housing loan programme have been perpetrated by individuals, not the institution itself, the army chief said on Thursday.Continue Reading
It’s never been a better time to be in the red in Hong Kong. The financial hub plans to ease its listing rules to allow more firms that have never turned a profit to go public as part of a plan to attract at least 100 innovative tech firms to list on the local bourse […]Continue Reading
The much-vaunted economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic was short-lived. The global economy is now once more in the midst of a slowdown – the sharpest after any post-recession recovery since 1970. In this context, there is a growing recognition in Europe that the burgeoning Chinese economy can be seen from two angles. From a […]Continue Reading
At Sonder, the young chef serves up elegant nostalgia-tinged dishes that honour his family’s generations of chefs that came before him, while forging his own path beyond his father’s shadow.Continue Reading
A caterer has been hired to provide daily meals for about 200 workers from the company who reside at S11 Dormitory. Continue Reading
A 55-year-old man has been arrested for an alleged “convenience store project” Ponzi scheme which caused his investors to lose about 500 million baht.Continue Reading
In late August 2022, news broke that Apple was in talks to manufacture its famed Apple Watches and MacBooks in Vietnam for the first time. Some view this as a move by transnational corporations and their core suppliers to diversify their production away from China, buffering themselves from intensifying US-China geoeconomic competition. Others interpret this as a sign of […]Continue Reading