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HONG KONG—A much anticipated new runway opened for commercial flights in Hong Kong on Friday, part of a yearslong infrastructure revamp that the government said would be vital to the city’s future as a global trade and finance hub. But that was before the Covid-19 pandemic decimated world supply chains and led Hong Kong to isolate itself behind a wall of travel restrictions. Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. CPCAY 1.68% ’s Boeing…

Chris Patten’s appointment as Hong Kong’s last governor in 1992 marked a cultural change for the colony. His predecessors had mostly been diplomats or administrators – Patten was a senior UK politician with reforming ambitions and a flair for public relations who aroused suspicion in both Beijing and Hong Kong. Many intrigued against him. But he had one supreme advantage – the loyal backing of John Major, the prime minister, and Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, back in London.Patten’s goal was to ensure the 1997…

HONG KONG—One of China’s top lithium producers began marketing what is expected to be Hong Kong’s largest initial public offering so far this year, braving recent market volatility to test global investor appetite for shares of new-energy companies. Tianqi Lithium Corp. 002466 -1.01% is aiming to raise more than $1 billion in a listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange, according to people familiar with the matter. The Chengdu, China-based…

Chinese electric car company WM Motor, or Weltmeister, filed Wednesday to go public in Hong Kong. Pictured here is one of the company's cars in a shopping mall in Shanghai.Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese electric car start-up WM Motor filed Wednesday to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.Also known as Weltmeister, the electric car company disclosed its annual losses doubled over the last three years to 8.2 billion yuan ($1.2 billion), while revenue more than doubled during that…

The figure shows a strong homogeneity in the distribution and formation pathways of OOMs across China's megacities including Hong Kong, Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai. Credit: HKUST Prof. Wang Zhe, assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)'s Division of Environment and Sustainability, has collaborated with international scientists to reveal the significant roles of anthropogenic…

Image used for representation. (Photo: AFP)Cathay Pacific resumed operations from Mumbai and Delhi with three flights in MayPTI Last Updated:May 29, 2022, 12:00 ISTFOLLOW US ON:Cathay Pacific has announced that it is increasing the frequency of its flight services from Mumbai and Delhi to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong-headquartered airline had stopped flying to India in late March 2020 due to the suspension of passenger traffic to and from India. The airline resumed its services to Mumbai and Delhi from May 4 and May 6,…

If you came out of watching Everything Everywhere All At Once with more questions than answers, well, you are not alone. Even James Hong, who plays Gong Gong, the grandpa character in the film, told Jimmy Kimmel he “still know what the movie is about.” The talk show host was asking the actor what his plan was for getting the film an Oscar nomination, considering its early release date when Hong joked about having no idea what Everything Everywhere is actually about. “Maybe some of you can tell me later on,” he…

Hong Kong has banned Air India services till April 24 after three passengers on one of its flights tested positive for COVID-19 post arrival on Saturday, a senior government official has said.| Passengers from India can arrive in Hong Kong only if they have a COVID-19 negative certificate from a test done 48 hours prior to the journey, according to rules issued by the Hong Kong government, said the official on Sunday. Moreover, all international passengers are required to take a post-flight COVID-19 test at the airport…

Back in November 2020, startup Open Ocean Engineering launched an autonomous trash collector aimed at clearing plastic waste from harbors, lakes and canals. After partnering with games titan Razer last year for a radical redesign, a sleeker Clearbot has now started patrolling Hong Kong waters.As we've noted many times in the past, plastic waste is an enormous problem – not only for the environment at large but also for our health. Just recently, global leaders from 175 nations signed a resolution aimed at tackling the…

Hong Kong-based international airline Cathay Pacific on Thursday said it will resume scheduled flight services to India in a phased manner from May 4 onwards. Flight services on the Mumbai-Hong Kong route will resume from May 4, while the air connectivity between Hong Kong and Delhi will be restored from May 6, the airline said in a statement. Boeing B777-300 will be deployed on these two routes with a three-class configuration namely business, premium economy and economy, it said. The resumption of scheduled services…