South China Morning Post - Companies

Ahead of a new round of bilateral trade talks, the US has extended the suspension of an expanded trade blacklist that helped inflame tensions with China last year and could subject overseas subsidiaries of Chinese companies to greater scrutiny. The US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a final rule on Thursday extending the suspension of its 50 per cent affiliate rule ...

Solana Company, one of the world’s largest blockchain networks, plans to expand in Hong Kong to tap the city’s growing demand for tokenisation, according to a senior executive. “I believe that the biggest opportunity for Solana is actually in [the Asia-Pacific region],” Solana Company chairman and CEO Joseph Chee said in an interview in Hong Kong earlier this week. Founded in th...

China’s pure-play artificial intelligence chipmakers crossed an important milestone in the third quarter as several firms swung into profit, but severe supply chain hurdles and soaring memory costs cloud their long-term growth prospects. Domestic graphics processing unit (GPU) developers including Moore Threads, MetaX and Iluvatar CoreX are racing to fill the market void left by...

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), the operator of Asia’s third-largest stock market, has reported its first year-on-year decline in quarterly profit in over two years amid a slowdown in market turnover, with profits falling 10 percent compared to the previous quarter. Net profit for the three months to September fell 1 per cent year on year to HK$4.859 billion (US$620 mil...

US apparel retailer Levi Strauss & Co says it is bullish on China and plans further investment and new store openings in the market, riding robust growth driven by young shoppers. While the consumer market in China remains challenging for many multinationals, with a host of foreign brands shuttering stores amid rapid market shifts and broader consumption headwinds, Levi’s se...