GBAFEATURE

06 July 2022

Foreign trade from and into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) rebounded in March after a big dip in February. The dip, an annual event, was far less pronounced in the GBA than in the rest of Mainland China, with the stability of growth underscoring the resilience of the region’s manufacturing base and overall economy. More

HKTDC Updates

Exploring RCEP opportunities

04 July 2022

Formally adopted in January, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which stretches from Japan to New Zealand, is set to create the largest free trade bloc in the world. The agreement is likely to boost businesses’ efforts to go global. More

Tech & Innovation

Robots tackle herculean task

28 June 2022

Anyone who has programmed a computer and driven a car knows that developing a self-driving vehicle would require a herculean effort – hence the name of Hong Kong’s first self-driving vehicle. More

Entrepreneurship

GBA boost for Kowloon office hubs

27 June 2022

The development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is helping businesses from Mainland China to enter the Hong Kong market and use the city as their launchpad for global expansion. In a report from global real estate consultancy Knight Frank, Patrick Mak, Executive Director Head of Kowloon Office Strategy & Solutions & Head of Tenant Representation, Greater China, discusses which sectors are most likely to leverage Hong Kong’s connector status and identifies three emerging office hubs in Kowloon that have the potential to reap benefits. More

Entrepreneurship

GBA ideal for brand assembly

01 June 2022

Your home – the shape, look and feel – is intensely personal; there is no design that suits all, and every occupant and family wants something different. And within every home, the bathroom poses some of the biggest challenges. More

Entrepreneurship

Fintech firms gain traction

12 May 2022

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, commentaries on finance have been peppered with the word “reset”, followed by an incredibly wide range of proposals as to what this “reset” may entail. More

Tech & Innovation

Healthtech fund focuses on GBA

27 April 2022

As populations age and grow wealthier, and with birth rates in decline, the world has seen a strong growth in demand for healthcare in recent years. The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 gave a new urgency to the need to improve accessibility to healthcare and advance treatment outcomes. More

Market Opportunities

Waste wood brings green harvest

20 April 2022

As any geologist can tell you, fossil fuels are the remains of long-gone plants and animals, many of them predating the denizens of Jurassic Park. This raises an obvious question – since we now discard huge amounts of plant and animal waste, could we not use such material to displace fossil fuels as sources of energy as well as products such as plastics and flavourants? More

Market Opportunities

New trade pact draws bullish response

12 April 2022

The rollout of the giant Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a new trade grouping that stretches from Japan on the fringes of the Arctic to New Zealand on the edge of the Antarctic, is driving optimism on long-term business prospects among enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). More

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