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...Industry insiders said the limited size of the Hong Kong market meant the first approvals would be the most valuable....
...Beneunder Limited, a Sequoia China-backed company that produces outdoor wear, has built its success by tapping into some consumers’ desire for fairer skin. It filed for a listing in April....
...The petition, filed at the Hong Kong High Court by Ever Credit Limited, involved non-payment of a HK$1.6bn ($204.5mn) loan, plus accrued interest....
...He added that he had just made a small winning on a bet of about HK$5,000 (US$640)....
...Other details about its plan to restructure its $300bn liabilities have been limited....
...for a triple-estimate HK$6.8mn....
...In April, a limited-edition Gérald Genta Fantasy Retro (c2005), made in collaboration with Hong Kong Disneyland, achieved HK$152,400 ($19,500), nearly double its high estimate....
...One of the two bats he illustrated sold in 2021 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong for HK$88,200 (about £8,800); it originally sold for £400....
...Thus you can buy a “H”, or Hong Kong, share in insurance company Ping An for HK$31 (US$4) or an “A” share in the mainland for Rmb39.4 (US$5.49) but with little hope the two, which are otherwise identical...
...Mimurosugi ($54), a refreshingly tangy Junmai Daiginjo that he was introduced to by a pair of guests, and Hayaseura Daiginjo (HK$690 – about £68), a drier-style sake that’s “incredible with eel”, are also...
...That’s because it has almost HK$4tn (£410bn) in its Exchange Fund....
...Top lot, as expected, was Yoshitomo Nara’s “Lookin’ for a Treasure” (1995) bought from the busy saleroom floor for its expected price of HK$70mn (HK$84mn with fees, third party guarantee)....
...Contact with Tugendhat was limited and the pair met on only a handful of occasions prior to him becoming minister....
...Lau said “Hong Kong’s commercial ties with the west are seeing limited impacts”, making a distinction between the views of investors and businesses and the different agenda of western governments....
...Wong says big-spending patrons, many of whom are mainland Chinese working in Hong Kong’s finance industry, were “willing and able to afford high quality cigars” and used to spend up to HK$100,000 ($12,800...
...Local farms provide head chef Michael Smith with ingredients such as pears, okra and pumpkin, but limited variety from Hong Kong producers means that at times he sources from around the region....
...Limited editions are considered the safer bet....
...Wednesday that its 10 per cent stake in Vostok Oil, a gargantuan Arctic development backed by Russian president Vladimir Putin, had been sold to “an independent Hong Kong registered trading company”, Nord Axis Limited...
...Hong Kong has 16 active ETFs listed on its stock exchange, with total assets of HK$6.1bn ($783mn) at the end of November, out of a total exchange traded product market cap of HK$443bn....
...However, the dent to Hong Kong’s overall wealth pile has been limited....
...This illegal operation had a turnover between March 2013 to March 2021 of just under HK$821bn (US$105bn), the judgment said, about equivalent to the revenues of the three biggest US casinos in the city...
...Sotheby’s sold one made around 1980 for HK$106,250 ($13,500) in 2020 and a modern version for $15,000 in a private sale last year....
...Myanmar’s coup in February last year and the ensuing civil war disrupted the already limited supply of jadeite....
...“It definitely was a wake-up call,” says HK Park, managing director of Crumpton Global and a former Pentagon official....
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