Asia Pacific

Face-to-face interaction yields unexpected gains for companies at Seoul food show

Asian-medicine industry striving to sway provincial lawmakers

Spike in number of health-conscious Chinese consumers driving demand for dairy options

A group of professionals with property and architectural backgrounds is converting old tenement Hong Kong buildings into co-living projects to offer an affordable housing and networking option to young people.

Real estate investment, a key pillar of China’s economy, is expected to fall back to a “normal” level – about 2 to 3 per cent growth – in the second half of this year, according to a top Chinese economic adviser.

B.C. institutions, staff need to keep improving to compete globally, administrators say

Billionaire Li Ka-shing, for decades one of the world’s wealthiest tycoons, has named his elder son Victor Li Tzar-kuoi as his successor in principle, a day after the Cheung Kong group clarified that he had “no concrete timetable” to retire from the

Shenzhen’s prominence as a manufacturing hub is gaining kudos among young technology companies, especially those with a hardware focus, according to industry participants.

The difference between hi-tech and traditional finance came into focus as Alibaba chief Jack Ma and US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross headlined overlapping conferences in the US.

From mobile payments to online lending, China’s boom in “fintech” applications is creating new headaches for regulators used to supervising conventional financial deals.