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Several senior PBEC members & board of directors attended fellow Corporate Member ICAEW Annual Gala Dinner at the Grand Hyatt in Hong Kong on the 24th October.  Over 260 senior executives, founders, CFO & CEO’s were in attendance co-hosted by...

New partnership is with Taiwan-headquartered Eos Rhea Metis ("ERM"), a network of experts specialising in enterprise and engineering risk management. By leveraging ERM's extensive network across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, the partnership will provide QBE and its customers with complementary expert insights and specialised...

"PBEC wishes to express heartfelt congratulations to @Andrew Weir our Chairman as we recognise his career at KPMG upon his retirement from 32 years of service. Throughout his career, Andrew has held pivotal roles, including Regional Senior Partner of Hong...

Two of our leading subject matter experts in ESG and Vietnam' latest economic developments caught up with each other in HCMC. It was the first time they had met face to face since being speakers together on the PWC ESG...

Aboitiz InfraCapital—the infrastructure arm of the Aboitiz family’s Aboitiz Equity Venture has won a contract to upgrade and operate an international airport in southern Philippines. The company will spend 12.8 billion pesos ($226 million) to upgrade the Laguindingan Airport in...

Hong Kong – 2nd September 2024 : - The Pacific Basin Economic Council is pleased to announce the appointment of Anthony Chan, CEO of Isola Capital to its board of directors, with immediate effect. “I have had the privilege of...

Provided by Dow Jones QBE Insurance Group said its interim net profit doubled and it raised its dividend, amid continued premium renewal rate increases and lower catastrophe costs. The Australia-listed insurer, which reports in U.S. dollars, said earnings for the...

Peter is PBEC's immediate past Board of Director who recently stepped down to take up a new role as China Britain Business Council Chief Executive. "It is a little more than a week since I collected my lanyard and security...

Author: PBEC's Accounting & Tax subject matter experts ICAEW Insights While formal training programmes play a key part in continuous development, some of the most impactful learning comes through one-to-one conversations, sometimes in a formal environment, but often not. Such...

Author: PBEC's Accounting & Tax subject matter experts ICAEW Insights The rapid growth of generative AI (Gen-AI) platforms, which are enabling millions of everyday people to use AI in creative ways, has taken the world by storm. In the coming...

Project Rake uses the Surf Rake, a beach cleaning machine capable of picking up and holding 3,500 pounds of marine debris. It moves across the sand, leaving behind fine sand and a cleaner beach. The Memorandum of Understanding outlines how...

The listed holding company, with interests in power, banking, food and infrastructure, is more than doubling its capital spending in 2024 to 153 billion pesos ($2.6 billion). About half will be used to build a solar power plant and a...

CityUHK launched the HK Tech 300 SEA Competition in Kuala Lumpur in May 2023. Its aim is to support Southeast Asian start-ups to expand their business to Hong Kong and the mainland, help Hong Kong start-ups explore opportunities in SEA,...

PBEC's subject matter expert Ben Simpfendorfer of Oliver Wyman spoke to China Daily journalists Ouyang Shijia and Ma Qing "The foundations are there for recovery." While China's growth target of around 5 percent for this year seems challenging, Simpfendorfer said...

Author: Kati Suominen is a Research Fellow at the Hinrich Foundation a PBEC Corporate Member and partner Foundation - July 2024 Created in 2022, the US-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity, or IPEF, was the Biden administration’s response to the...

Author: PBEC's Hinrich Foundation Yuqing Xing a Professor of Economics of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo By 2022 Japanese foreign direct investment in China had reached US$127.6 billion, the largest among Asian countries. Many Japanese...