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A Leapmotor electric vehicle is seen on display at the Essen Motor Show in Germany on December 3, 2025. Photo: AFP

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China’s oldest carmaker FAW buys US$534 million stake in EV assembler Leapmotor

‘Leapmotor aims to achieve annual deliveries of 4 million units a year in 10 years’ time,’ founder and CEO Zhu Jiangming says.

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Hong Kong stocks fail to hold on to gains on slow trade

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A view of Exchange Square in Central, where Hong Kong’s bourse operator is based, on May 18, 2025. Photo: Sam Tsang

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Hong Kong bond markets, yuan issuance to expand in 2026 under HKMA, SFC road map

HKMA and SFC blueprint to drive multicurrency issuance, with green finance and Bond Connect widening investor base.

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Banking & Finance

Hong Kong primary home sales to see decade high as small flats perk up market

Attractive discounts, easing mortgage costs and policy support drive the market’s shift towards flats that cost below US$1.3 million.

29 Dec 2025 - 7:00AM

Primary home sales are projected to reach 21,000 next year. Photo: Dickson Lee

Tech Trends

How a Chinese start-up is scaling 3D printing from sneakers to robots

Materials expert Wang Wenbin founded PollyPolymer in 2017 and developed a mature 3D-printing technology for footwear two years later.

29 Dec 2025 - 10:02AM

China Business

Greater Bay Area assets poised to lead surge in China’s expanding C-REIT market

By the end of last month, China had nearly 80 C-REITs, raising a total of over US$28.3 billion, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

28 Dec 2025 - 11:30AM

Companies

Hong Kong developers test ultra-luxury home demand with new launch on The Peak

As property prices stabilise and rents are on the rise, affluent buyers are being enticed with a fresh supply of high-end homes.

28 Dec 2025 - 10:00AM

Wharf Holdings’ latest Plantation Road launch reflects how developers are encouraged by improved market sentiment, following a number of big-ticket transactions this year. Photo: Handout

China Business

Dozens of Chinese EV makers under pressure to fold or trim operations: analysts

Grappling with expiring cash subsidies and tax incentives, China’s car market is forecast to see deliveries slump next year.

28 Dec 2025 - 9:46AM

About 50 unprofitable Chinese electric vehicle makers face pressure to scale down their business or wind down operations. Photo: Shutterstock

China EVs

Chilean firms partner to form giant company to exploit lithium

Last month China approved the planned partnership between state-owned Codelco and private firm SQM, which features Chinese capital.

28 Dec 2025 - 5:17AM

Big Tech

Nexperia China eyes new wafer suppliers amid legal fight with Dutch chipmaker

Nexperia owner Wingtech says the China unit produced more than 11 billion chips since mid-October, despite wafer supply constraints.

27 Dec 2025 - 6:36PM

China Business

From hope to hard numbers: China stocks will need profits to boost the bull run

Chinese shares surged in 2025 on a confidence-led re-rating – strategists now say the next leg in 2026 will hinge on an earnings uplift.

27 Dec 2025 - 10:00AM

Earnings, and not valuations, will be the main booster for China’s equities in the year ahead. Illustration: Henry Wong

Big Tech

China’s CXMT in crosshairs of South Korean prosecutors over Samsung tech leak

Prosecutors in Seoul indict 10 people, including ex-Samsung executives, for allegedly leaking the firm’s technology to memory chipmaker CXMT.

27 Dec 2025 - 7:00AM

Seoul prosecutors say the leak of Samsung’s proprietary DRAM technology benefited Chinese memory chip rival CXMT. Photo: AFP

Tech Trends

Chinese EV battery giant CATL and Guoxin Micro set up new automotive chip firm

The two companies expect to launch Tongxin Micro Technology as a developer of automotive domain controller chips.

26 Dec 2025 - 11:14PM

IPO Quote Profile

Launch window opens for China’s space companies as LandSpace advances IPO

LandSpace has completed IPO tutoring with Chinese regulators, putting it a step closer to a Shanghai Star Market listing.

26 Dec 2025 - 5:28PM

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China Business

From hope to hard numbers: China stocks will need profits to boost the bull run

Chinese shares surged in 2025 on a confidence-led re-rating – strategists now say the next leg in 2026 will hinge on an earnings uplift.

27 Dec 2025 - 10:00AM

Earnings, and not valuations, will be the main booster for China’s equities in the year ahead. Illustration: Henry Wong

China Business

Are Chinese biotechs what the doctor ordered as Big Pharma faces ‘patent cliff’?

US drug makers are racing to plug looming ‘patent cliff’ revenue gaps – and increasingly they are turning to China biotechs.

20 Dec 2025 - 8:57AM

Tech Trends

Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock

The turning point came when DeepSeek released its V3 and R1 models, which were on par with OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama models at the time.

14 Dec 2025 - 12:57AM

Banking & Finance

Exclusive | Meet the Illinois farmer sowing the seeds of the world’s biggest IPOs of 2026

Jeff Rowe, a fifth-generation Illinois farmer, runs a Chinese-owned Swiss company in Basel that is aiming for one of the world’s largest IPOs in Hong Kong, due in 2026.

6 Dec 2025 - 11:18AM

Jeff Rowe, the CEO of Syngenta, at his family farm in the US state of Illinois on September 30, 2025. Photo: Anthony Collins/Handout

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