Hong Kong

Hong Kong's consumer prices up 1.4%

Price hikes were seen in take-out meals, transport, and alcohol.

Beyond Ventures, Alibaba inject $312.31m in genetics firm

Prenetics is raising money to use on digital health infrastructure.

Financial services firms struggle to keep up with digitisation

52% say their finance teams can't easily adapt to newly implemented technologies.

Hong Kong's goods exports up 5.4%

Volume of goods re-exports edged up 5.6%.

Hong Kong slashes tax on businesses' first $2m profit

R&D firms can have as much as a 300% tax deduction.

Central office rents up 0.2% in August

It was led by a 0.5% m-o-m growth in Grade A2 office rents.

Luxury homes to account for only 2.2% of units to be completed until 2021

Capital appreciation potential will be higher for luxury flats.

Funds raised by Hong Kong IPOs down 37% to $85.7b

But the number of IPOs increased 52% to 114.

Dwellworks moves into new corporate home in The Hennessy, Wanchai

They transformed the new office into a home-like workspace.

AI is taking the tedium out of recruitment

Will 'bots be taking over the world of headhunting?

Retail sales value up 2.7% to $34.8b

Volumte of total retail sales inched up by 3.2%.

Hong Kong's deficit hit $15.7b in August

Expenditure, on the other hand, hit $36.87b.