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Prof. Zhiwu Chen, Chair Professor of Finance at HKU Business School, pointed out that this gap reflects a deeper structural challenge in tax administration. While digital systems have made it increasingly easy for authorities to monitor conventional payroll income, the earnings of internet streamers and the online stores they front remain considerably harder to track.

Recently, Interactive Brokers announced that users can now connect large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok directly to their investment accounts for market research, portfolio analysis, and even trade generation. Large language models are evolving from conversation tools that simply answer questions and generate content into intelligent agents capable of calling external tools, connecting to real-world systems, and participating in complex decision-making.

After pouring away the remaining half bottle of distilled water, you put the plastic bottle, with its cap and label still attached, into the brown bin on the street corner. As far as you are concerned, that is the end of the bottle’s story.

In a recent interview with Caijing, Prof. Yang You, Assistant Professor of Finance in HKU Business School, said Hong Kong’s top priority is to build robust local gold delivery and settlement capacity.

Prof. Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School and Director of the Asia Global Institute, was recently quoted in The New York Times, weighing in on the EU's intensifying scrutiny of Chinese tech giant Nuctech and the rising geopolitical tensions surrounding global trade.

In a recent Bloomberg interview, amid the surge in chip trade between Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland, Prof. Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School and Director of the Asia Global Institute, explained that Hong Kong continues to play a role in assuring quality, verifying standards, and protecting intellectual property (IP) for products with high IP content. He also highlighted that the city retains strong institutional advantages.

As Hong Kong prepares to unveil its first five-year plan, the city is entering a new phase of economic growth and structural transformation. In an interview with Wen Wei Po, Professor Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School, shared his vision for Hong Kong’s next decade.

In recent years, a wave of artificial intelligence (AI) has swept the globe, and the popularization of generative AI has led to a sharp increase in demand for compute resources. Behind the impressive models and products, the infrastructure underpinning this technological revolution is an array of data centres located across the world.

In an interview with BBC Chinese, Prof. Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School and Director of the Asia Global Institute explained that today’s global economic environment is fundamentally different from the 1980s. China’s position in global supply chains, its capital controls, and its economic structure mean it cannot be treated as “another Japan” under a copy and paste Plaza Accord.