What are some of the top digital marketing trends that foreign businesses can capture to help them sell to the Chinese market of more than 200 million digital natives? Find out how livestreaming, KOLs, WeChat mini programs, Xiaohongshu and Zhihu can help you increase presence in China.
Hong Kong poised to become a health tech hub in Greater Bay Area: since 2018, more than 100 healthcare enterprises have listed in Hong Kong, raising over HKD 100 billion. New digital transformation guidelines for SMEs in mainland China seek to optimise SMEs’ capacity to transform digitally .
While companies incorporated in Hong Kong can be either public or private and limited either by shares or guarantee, the most popular kind of business vehicle in Hong Kong is a private limited company. How easy is it to establish business presence in Hong Kong?
Hong Kong is back in business in the fast lane and poised to become the go-to listing venue for innovative companies from all over the world. China releases 2022 Catalogue of Industries to spur foreign foreign investment
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has launched a new platform that enables banks to gain a more accurate picture of businesses’ financial health, thereby boosting the chances of SMEs in securing loans. The Shanghai Municipal People’s Government has introduced a range of measures to boost inbound reinvestment by foreign investors.
Proposed changes to Hong Kong’s foreign source income exemption regime for passive income are expected to come into force on 1 January 2023 with no transition period. All kinds of offshore passive income received by a constituent entity of a multinational enterprise group shall be deemed to be sourced in Hong Kong and, therefore, subject to profits tax in certain cases.
With more sources of data input that go beyond the limits of historical data coming into play, the nature of the audit process will undergo a transformation: from an essentially reactive exercise delivered in hindsight into an increasingly forward-oriented and anticipatory endeavour. In this article, we discuss different ways technology is reshaping the landscape of audit and the concomitant risks.
Hong Kong brings the Companies Register’s New Inspection Regime into operation phase by phase from August 2021 to December 2023 to limit the disclosure of personal data in the Companies Registry. Under Phase 2 of the new inspection regime, usual residential addresses and full identification numbers on the Index of Directors on the Companies Register are replaced with correspondence addresses and partial identification numbers for public inspection.
The pandemic has laid bare the vulnerabilities of global supply chains, and brought to the fore the symbiotic, interdependent relationship between upstream and downstream players. What are some possible ways that can help a company better weather the storm and mitigate the risks associated with supply chain disruptions?
In July 2021, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China issued additional guidance on concluding electronic contracts between employers and employees, fleshing out in detail the notice issued in March 2020, which conferred legal validity on such contracts subject to certain conditions.
