Blog entry by Noemi Lazarev
Sept 16 (Reuters) - Hong Kong stocks fell for the fourth straight day to a 10-month closing low, as shares of embattled Chinese developer China Evergrande Group tumbled to their lowest in a decade, sparking contagion fears.
** "The investment lens through which global investors evaluate opportunities in China has changed and the strategies deployed towards investing in the Middle Kingdom need to adapt accordingly," wrote Norman Vilamin, CIO of Wealth Management at Union Bancaire Privee.
Top conservative candidate Yoon Suk Yeol and his liberal rival Lee Jae-myung - both men above 55 - are fighting for what they see as a "male" vote crucial for victory.
They have increasingly focused their messages on young men who decry gender equality policies and the loss of traditional privileges in a hyper-competitive job market.
Critics say this makes up only a small number of rape claims, and that the threat of tougher punishment could intimidate victims from coming forward amid a recent male backlash against the #MeToo movement.
For now, online work available to graduates is still limited, Tshilombo said, and as more young people earn degrees and boost their abilities, finding enough work for them all is his business' newest headache.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE - The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) will revise the Main Board Listing Rules to facilitate fundraising of technology enterprises that have yet to meet profit and trading record requirements.
- HKEX plans to revitalise the Growth Enterprise Market to provide start-ups with a fundraising platform. HOUSING - Encourage developers to participate in subsidised housing development and to apply for re-zoning of their own private land for development.
Fast forward to 2021, when Michelle started sharing some of her daughter's cute, quirky, bern school and creative meals on social media. At first it was her friends who commented, then friends of friends. Pretty soon she had a following of fans eager to see how she'd transform Adalynn's lunches and snacks into fantastical finger foods.
- To enhance strengths as the largest offshore renminbi (RMB) business centre, to promote the launch of more RMB-denominated investment tools. - To offer tax concession to eligible family offices - a key growth segment of the asset and wealth management industry - with the target to attract 200 family offices by 2025. - To earmark HK$10 billion ($1.27 billion) to fund at least 100 research teams in universities which have good potential to become start-ups.
Lee, a teacher who has risen to the top of her field in the country's highly competitive private tutoring business, remembers years of verbal and physical sexual harassment and unwanted advances by male colleagues who constantly questioned her competitiveness as a woman. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
But once things were working, Tshilombo and others began studying online - from website design to computer science, graphic design and education - then looking for work, first from United Nations and aid group partners, then more broadly.
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We have to figure out how to absorb that group of people," he said, lamenting that "as soon as we solve problems, more problems come in." "People are acquiring new skills but they don't know what to do next.
- Regular teachers in all public sector schools are required to pass the Basic Law and the National Security Law tests. - To allow eligible incoming talent to apply for a refund of the extra stamp duty paid for purchasing residential property.
But for those able to find digital work - or take advantage of solar power access to set up other businesses, from hair salons and dress making to cafes and phone charging - the payoffs are significant.
People have enough time that they can learn big things and do big things if they're given the right platform," said the young entrepreneur, who in 2018 earned a business administration degree from the tuition-free online University of the People. "In the camp, there is not much to do.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - W hen Innocent Tshilombo arrived in Kenya's remote Kakuma refugee camp in 2009 after fleeing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he spent the first years recovering and looking, without much success, for something to do with his life.
It can't come from physical work - but it can happen in the digital world, where there are less restrictions," Tshilombo, the founder of Kakuma Ventures, said in an interview. "People in the camp, to be independent, need a stream of income.
Today 17 such nodes, serving about 1,700 people, operate in Kakuma, a decades-old settlement of tents and tin-roof houses where almost 200,000 refugees live long-term, most with little prospect of ever returning to their former homes and lives.