Hong Kong

Through delivery of a gross floor area of approximately 43,600 sq m. revenue soared by 19.7% to $49.67mn.

Yet combined tonnes of cargo and mail was carried by the two airlines dropped 19.5% last month.

The company has been able to bring aircraft into operation after signing the respective aircraft management agreements.

2012 will be inflection point for CapitaMalls Asia with more than 50.0% of its malls in China operational.

Age is finally catching up to Hong Kong's aging and declining work force.

Motoring to Guangdong from Hong Kong will be easier starting March—but only for a few.

Hong Kong and the largest port city and city in Texas have a lot in common.

And rental growth in AsiaPac markets have decelerated from 2.5% in Q3 to just 0.9% in Q4.

With two mobile phones to every person, Hong Kong is Asia’s most “mobile” place.

The frantic need to curb property speculation seems to trump all other considerations in Hong Kong.

A pilot micro-financing scheme just proposed by the government will entitle self-employed individuals and those undertaking self-enhancement training to borrow up to HK$300,000 each.

Small and medium enterprises can expect a helping hand from the government to ride out the rough times ahead.

Government's moves to check real estate speculation and prevent the housing bubble from bursting are working—but at the expense of already battered middle-class home owners.

January didn’t get off to a good start for the property sector.

The average lifespan of a multinational (Fortune 500) company is 40 years. Of today’s Fortune 500, only 67 still exist from the first list published in 1955. Last week 133 year old Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection; in its 1980 heydays it employed 145,000 people, had great products (it even invented the digital camera) and its brand belonged to the most valuable in the world. Too slow to change to the digital world, decades of decline ended in a slow, but certain death. In a recent study that TNS conducted with CMOs of 30 multinationals about digital and marketing, the CMOs recognized the necessity of speed and change, as they mentioned the imperatives for 2012:

GDP in the fourth quarter of 2011 came in at 3% YoY, lower than 3Q11's 4.3%.