Office rents in Hong Kong seen falling in 2019

Rents in the world’s costliest office market, Hong Kong, may fall for the first time in four years as an equities rout weighs on sentiment in the

Jack Ma labels trade war ‘most stupid thing’

Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma called fighting over trade senseless and decried once again a widening conflict between the U.S. and China. China’s richest person -

HKD drops most since 2016 as rate gap widens again

Hong Kong’s dollar weakened the most since February 2016, unwinding some of last week’s jump, as a widening interest-rate gap made it more lucrative to borrow

Gaming | Genting Malaysia falls most on record amid higher casino levies

Genting Malaysia Bhd. suffered its worst one-day fall on record as most analysts downgraded the stock after the government announced Friday that casinos’ annual fees and

Corporate bits | Sands China volunteers at Caritas Bazaar

A group of around 110 Sands Cares Ambassadors manned a game booth on Saturday and Sunday for the 49th Caritas Macau Charity Bazaar at Nam Van Lake Nautical

EU stress tests show banks more robust against a crisis

Europe-wide stress tests show that big banks would come through a theoretical financial crisis in better shape than in the last such test two years ago.

Real Estate Matters | Surviving the check-out process

If you sit down and think about it, renting a home from somebody is kind of a funny concept. We might rent a tuxedo for a night, a

Innovation | Amazon’s new goal: Teach 10 million kids a year to code

Amazon wants to get more kids thinking about becoming computer engineers. The company launched a program yesterday that aims to teach more than 10 million students

HK reveals crypto rules in push to tame wild market

Hong Kong’s securities watchdog unveiled new rules for cryptocurrency funds and said it may regulate digital-asset exchanges, joining a global push to improve supervision of

Japan | Victory over mobile carriers triggers USD34b rout

NTT Docomo Inc. led a 3.8 trillion yen (USD34 billion) stock rout of Japan’s top three mobile carriers after it appeared to cave in to pressure from the

Corporate Bits | Macau shopping festival returns next month for 8th edition

The annual Macau Shopping Festival, now in its eighth edition, will return to the city from December 1 to 31, under the theme “Make Shopping Fun”.

NHL partners with MGM to share data for sports betting

The NHL announced a multiyear agreement this week to provide MGM Resorts International with data for use in betting, the second major U.S. professional sports league

Corporate bits | MGM international lion dance championship to be held this month

MGM and Wushu General Association of Macau are co- hosting their signature event “MGM Lion Dance Championship – Macau International Invitational 2018” on November 10 and 11,

Taiwan | Growth slows as trade tensions prompt consumer caution

Taiwan’s export-driven economy is cooling as escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China weigh on local consumers. The expansion slowed to 2.3 percent in the

Corporate bits | BNU opens branch at University of Macau

BNU yesterday held the opening ceremony of its new branch at the University of Macau (UM), the bank announced in a press release. BNU has been

China is buying distressed private companies as markets sink

It’s never been easy to figure out where China’s government ends and the private sector begins, but the dividing line is getting increasingly blurry as

Ex-Audi CEO Stadler freed from jail in Diesel emissions case

German judges allowed former Audi Chief Executive Officer Rupert Stadler to leave the jail where he’s been since June, while warning that there’s still strong evidence

Pizza Hut will enlist robots in quest to slice delivery times

Pizza Hut is fusing two of America’s favorite pastimes - pizza pies and pickup trucks - in a bid to cut delivery times as fast-food competition heats

Indonesian airline whose plane crashed a low-cost high flyer

Lion Air, the airline whose plane crashed early yesterday while traveling from Jakarta to an island off Indonesia’s Sumatra with 189 people on board, is a

Australia | Household debt flashes red in Morgan Stanley report

Australia’s economy is most at risk in the developed world from household debt reduction because of weak house prices and potential tax changes that could curb property

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