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Have you watched "Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In" yet? This local action movie, released earlier this month, ranks second in the box office among Chinese movies in Hong Kong's film history. Starting as a novel, it was turned into a comic series, then later adapted into a film. The commercial value of this creative franchise continues to rise, thanks to the business model of intellectual property (IP).

Prof. Zhiwu Chen, Chair Professor of Finance at HKU Business School, believes that Hong Kong's geopolitical neutrality is a favourable factor, "China can still rely on Hong Kong as the intermediary." In 2022, 72.56% of China's offshore investment came from Hong Kong. Prof. Zhenhua Mao, Professor of Practice at HKU Business School, highlighted Hong Kong's English-speaking environment and common law system are the city’s unique advantages in attracting foreign investment to China. However, he added that more research is needed on the challenges faced by venture capital and private equity firms investing in the country.

Are “green products” necessarily environmentally friendly? Not really. Since going green is beneficial to the brand and its profit, some companies will exaggerate the environmental protection effects of their products or services by providing false information to mislead the public. This is known as "greenwashing".

The government announced Hong Kong's 2024 Q1 real GDP YoY growth of 2.7%, down from last year’s 4.3%, reflecting moderate growth. In an interview with Now News, Professor Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School and Director of Asia Global Institute explained the difference was caused by the pent-up demand after the pandemic.

As geopolitics intensifies, many mainland companies are relocating production lines to other countries to diversify investments. Prof. Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of HKU Business School and Director of Asia Global Institute, mentioned in an interview with Commercial Radio Hong Kong that Hong Kong can seize this opportunity to position itself as a multinational supply chain management centre. By offering support services like logistics, import and export trading to mainland companies in operating business overseas, Hong Kong can foster the development of the headquarters economy.

In a recent paper published in Nature Biotechnology, Prof. Andy Back and his co-authors address this question by examining 2.3 million grants at the US National Institutes of Health from 1985 to 2017.

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Will the US's new tariff-hike severely affect China's economy? Prof. Heiwai Tang, Associate Dean of the HKU Business School and Director of the Asia Global Institute commented in a recent interview with South China Morning Post SCMP that the US administration's tough stance towards China is obviously a strategic move during the election year. “The significant increase in US tariffs on Chinese EVs is more symbolic than having any substantial impact on China’s EV industry,” Prof. Tang shared.

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