An excavator drives past a dried-up pond in Vietnam's southern Ben Tre province on March 19, 2024. Nhac Nguyen | Afp | Getty ImagesScientists on Tuesday confirmed that last month was the hottest March on record, extending an extraordinary run of global heat that has renewed...
L’Occitane International’s billionaire owner Reinold Geiger and Blackstone are nearing a deal to take the skincare company private, potentially ending its 14-year of trading on Hong Kong’s stock exchange, people familiar with the matter said.Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, may provide debt financing...
This story idea came from audience members, like you, who got in touch with us. Email us your questions. We are listening: ask@cbc.ca.Current or former iPhone 6 and 7 users in Canada can now submit a settlement claim for a class-action lawsuit that could pay...
[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.]The digital age has seen a rapid shift in productivity, moving from general to intelligent computing. This shift is essentially an evolution of computing. The emergence of ChatGPT in 2023 and Sora in early...
Hong Kong fintech company Wonder has won approval from the city’s Transport Department for its effort to bring digital payments to Hong Kong’s 18,000-odd taxis, the vast majority of which only take cash.Taxi Pay x Wonder, or Taxi Pay for short, is the first payment...
A wholly-owned unit of Lai Sun Development Company, a Hong Kong property firm, has sold its equity stake in the AIA Central skyscraper for HK$1.42 billion (US$180 million) in a bid to boost its liquidity.The move comes just a few weeks after the developer disposed...
The refinancing will cover 60 per cent of the principal for qualifying loans to tech-based small and medium-sized enterprises, and can be extended twice for an additional year each time, the central bank said in an online statement.“[The loans] will guide financial institutions to provide...
Swire Properties is shutting down the group’s first ever hotel, The Opposite House in Beijing, after 16 years to make way for an “innovative retail landmark”, according to a spokesman.Located in the upmarket Taikoo Li Sanlitun (TLS) area in the Chinese capital, the 99-room hotel,...
Hong Kong stocks rose for a second day, with the benchmark hovering near a four-week high, as NetEase rallied among game operators after China approved new imported game titles this month.The Hang Seng Index gained 0.5 per cent to 16,814.63 as of 10.39am local time....
New-energy vehicles (NEVs) will make up about half of new car sales in mainland China by 2030, as state incentives and expanding charging stations win over more customers, according to Moody’s Investors Service.The projection suggests a steady and continuous gain over the next six years...