Asia Pacific

A broader free trade agreement with Canada could set the stage for a new round of similar negotiations between China and other advanced economies, a senior Canadian economist says.

Asian country’s rising unemployment has officials seeking offshore opportunities

Only one-third of Hong Kong employees plan to stay in their jobs for another year even if they are being given a pay raise, according to the latest recruitment agency report.

Hong Kong’s retail sales rebounded slightly in April for the second straight month following a two-year period of contraction, with an industry expert predicting that growth for the whole year could hit 1 per cent.

More than one million Uber riders in Hong Kong have been invited to show their support for the ride-hailing firm in a territory-wide online campaign starting on Wednesday as it fights for legalization in the city.

Cash rich Nan Fung Development, the textile producer that morphed into the developer of Hong Kong’s most exclusive real estate, has won a commercial site in Kai Tak area for a record HK$24.6 billion (US$3.

Oracle Corp, the world’s largest seller of enterprise software, may look to its partnership with Tencent Holdings to distribute its NetSuite portfolio of online business applications in mainland China’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, an industr

Rapid urbanisation and the growth of online retailing in China’s big cities have begun to spur demand for a sophisticated form of mini self-storage geared towards the tech savvy user, according to private equity real estate fund InfraRed NF Investmen

For almost two decades, China’s property market was a one-way bet. As urban residents made the move from state housing to privately owned flats from 1998, there were big profits to be made.

New flat buyers in Hong Kong are taking advantage of developers’ generous financing plans with larger mortgage sizes, although experts cautioned that the leveraging could amount to heightened risk of defaults should the residential market reverse its