The gamification of banking: how Hong Kong virtual lender ZA Bank uses mobile games to attract and maintain customers
Covid restrictions are preventing Annelise Murray, a 22-year-old English teacher in Hong Kong, from taking trips with her friends to Macau’s casinos.But she still recently managed to win big on a slot machine, walking away with HK$4,700 (US$600) – enou...
Pacific tsunami threat recedes but volcano ash hinders response
A huge undersea volcanic eruption sent tsunami waves crashing across the shore in Tonga and people rushing to higher ground.
China tech crackdown: Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance posts weaker ad revenue growth in 2021, report says
Growth in advertising revenue at China’s three biggest technology companies – Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent Holdings, and ByteDance – slowed in 2021 amid Beijing’s regulatory clampdown on the internet industry, according to new research.Top-ranked Ali...
The gamification of banking: how Hong Kong virtual lender ZA Bank uses mobile games to attract and maintain customers
Covid restrictions are preventing Annelise Murray, a 22-year-old English teacher in Hong Kong, from taking trips with her friends to Macau’s casinos.But she still recently managed to win big on a slot machine, walking away with HK$4,700 (US$600) – enou...
Olympic champion Cheung Ka-long makes Hong Kong history again with fencing World Cup gold
Tokyo Olympic fencing champion Cheung Ka-long made Hong Kong history once again after winning men’s individual foil gold at the FIE World Cup in Paris, France on Saturday.The 24-year-old beat Edoardo Luperi of Italy 15-12 in the final in what was his f...
ONE Championship: Xiong Jingnan taking it easy on title challengers – ‘I don’t want to injure them’
Chinese strawweight champ Xiong Jingnan has claimed she is refraining from finishing her opponents because she does not want to injure them.“The Panda” racked up her sixth successful title defence with a unanimous decision over Japan’s Ayaka Miura at O...
HSE chief encouraged by downward trend of Covid patients in hospital
For the first time in a week the number of people in hospital with Covid has fallen under 1,000, with 940 people in hospital.
In his own words, China’s president outlines a vision of digital economy with 5G connectivity and data at its core
China’s president has outlined his vision of a digital economy with 5G connectivity as its backbone and nationwide data management at its core, as he channelled the forces of technology to serve socioeconomic development in the world’s second-largest e...
China and Iran seek to boost infrastructure and energy links as cooperation agreement comes into force
China and Iran announced plans for cooperation in areas such as energy and infrastructure on Friday as they officially launched a 25-year cooperation agreement.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi also told his visiting Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdo...