Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, aims to buy his way into the global aircraft leasing business as his flagship investment firm holds talks with lessors on building a portfolio of planes, people with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Instagram reportedly blocked in China amid Hong Kong protests
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc (FB.O), has been blocked in China, according to numerous reports, including from Hong Kong-based reporters with the New York Times.
Dollar hits four-year high, Asian stocks on edge as HK seethes
The dollar hit a four-year peak against a basket of currencies in early Asian trade on Monday, bolstering Japanese shares, but other Asian shares shrugged off Friday's Wall Street rebound in the face of political unrest in Hong Kong.
China lets foreign institutions invest more in its markets in third quarter
China boosted the quotas it gives foreign institutions to invest in domestic securities by the largest amount in the third quarter since the final quarter of 2012 and regulators may also raise the limit on a parallel yuan-denominated program.
StanChart in advanced talks to sell HK consumer unit to Australia's Pepper
Standard Chartered (STAN.L) is in advanced talks to sell its Hong Kong consumer finance business to finance firm Pepper Australia Pty Ltd in a deal that could fetch between $500 million to $700 million, people familiar with the deal said.
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Harvard University has received the largest donation in its history, the school announced on Monday: $350 million from the Morningside Foundation to the School of Public Health.
China's buoyant exports pushed its trade surplus to a record in July, fuelling optimism global demand will help counter pressure on the domestic economy from a weakening property sector.
"Transformers 4: Age of Extinction" premiered in Hong Kong on Thursday, June 19. The event was star-studded. Mark Wahlberg, Jack Reynor, and Nicola Peltz impressed fans together with the Imagine Dragons' performing the theme song of the movie "Battle Cry".
After 25 years of Tiananmen massacre, Chinese citizens in Hong Kong remembered the bloody violence that marked in their memories last Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of men joined the vigil. Activists voice out for China's regrets.
New York City, US-based online food ordering and delivery site Delivery.com launched in Hong Kong to take advantage of the lucrative food market and the busy corporate environment of the Asian country.
Melbourne, Australia-based payments startup Aston Club took home $1.5 million in its seed funding round led by Chris Morris of Computershare to launch a mobile app that helps users pay their bar and restaurant bills.
American venture capital firm Domain Elite invested $6.5 million in Israeli endoscopy and colonoscopy products maker SMART Medical Systems to bring the latter's products to meet the demand for the said products in Greater China.
HS Group Ltd (HSG) will invest an undisclosed amount in Pleiad Investment Advisors, a new hedge fund in Hong Kong formed by former Soros Fund Management executives Kenneth Lee and Michael Yoshino, which will be launched in the third quarter of 2014.
Hong Kong-based private equity firm EmergeVest picked up a controlling stake in Derbyshire, UK-based chilled and frozen food distributor NFT Distribution Operations for an undisclosed amount to expand its sales.
