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GENERAL industrials One-off sales offset falling revenues Hutchison Whampoa, the retail-to-telecoms conglomerate controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, managed to offset falling revenues with a series of one-off asset [...]

support services News analysis The SFC says it will protect the interests of investors, write Tom Mitchell and Justine Lau There is a new sheriff in Hong Kong. The Securities [...]

A small number of shareholders can cause a big headache in Hong Kong. At best, voter turnout for the shareholder meeting in February that approved Richard Li's buy-out offer for [...]

MOBILE & TELECOMS Regulator petitions judge to veto deal Allegations of free shares to sway vote Richard Li's protracted attempt to buy-out PCCW, his Hong Kong telecommunications company, will reach [...]

MOBILE & TELECOMS The board of Pacific Crossing, operator of the second largest transpacific fibre optic cable, will meet this week to consider bids for the company - a transaction [...]

Yesterday morning two tourists paused at the eastern entrance to Hong Kong park, marvelling at a media scrum outside the nearby High Court building. As they watched, Alex Arena, chief [...]

mobile & telecoms News analysis Richard Li's plans for a buy-out of his company hang in the balance, writes Tom Mitchell The citizens of Hong Kong do not have the [...]

Mobile & Telecoms News analysis Allegations of vote rigging are the latest controversy to hit PCCW, says Tom Mitchell Investors in PCCW, the Hong Kong telecommunications company controlled by Richard [...]

MOBILE & TELECOMS News Analysis Another failed deal could be looming, write Justine Lau, Tom Mitchell and Sundeep Tucker Richard Li and his Chinese state-owned partner face a battle to [...]

MOBILE & telEcoms News Analysis Tom Mitchell on the latest twist in a two-year saga over the Hong Kong telecoms group After more than two years and three failed attempts, [...]

mobile & telecoms Another drama at PCCW, the Hong Kong telecoms company controlled by tycoon Richard Li has transfixed the company's long-suffering shareholders and local financiers. PCCW's shares were suspended [...]

mobile & telecoms MBK Partners, the Seoul-based private equity firm, has joined the ranks of those interested in acquiring a significant stake in the flagship telecommunications assets controlled by Richard [...]

MOBILE & TELECOMS TPG Capital, the US private equity firm, has submitted a bid for a minority stake in the flagship telecoms assets of Richard Li, the Hong Kong tycoon, [...]

PCCW, the Hong Kong telecommunications company, suffered a setback yesterday when minority shareholders voted against a proposal to take its listed property arm private. Shareholders in Pacific Century Premium Developments, [...]

Orascom Telecom has cut ties with Hutchison Telecommunications International. The Cairo-based group has sold the remainder of its stake in the company to HTIL's parent, Hutchison Whampoa. Hutchison and its [...]

Hutchison Whampoa yesterday said it would sell a stake in its Australian 3G mobile telephone arm to New Zealand's Telecom Corporation. The ADollars 330.6m (Dollars 297.3m) deal will see Telecom [...]

LONDON, MUMBAI and HONG KONG -- Vodafone should try to buy the Essar group out of Hutchison Essar, India's fourth-largest mobile operator, because the Mumbai-based conglomerate has been a 'troublesome' [...]

HONG KONG -- China Netcom, the country's second-largest fixed-line operator, plans to sell its half share of a broadband venture with PCCW, raising questions about the broader relationship of the [...]

HONG KONG -- The sale by Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL) of its 67 per cent stake in Hutchison-Essar, India's fourth-largest mobile operator, is the latest in a series of asset [...]

HONG KONG -- The sale by Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL) of its 67 per cent stake in India's fourth largest mobile operator, Hutchison Essar, is but the latest in a [...]

Bill Barney knew he wasn't in Kansas any more when he received his contract from his new bosses at China Netcom, the Beijing-controlled telecommunications company. It ran to dozens of [...]

HONG KONG -- Asia Netcom intends to build a trans-Pacific cable system that will more than double capacity between Asia and North America, whose communications were severely disrupted by last [...]

HONG KONG -- The bidding war for Hutchison Telecommunications International's (HTIL) coveted India operations has given rise to a risky new trade in Hong Kong - the Li Ka-shing asset [...]

HONG KONG -- PCCW shareholders gave Richard Li, their prodigal chairman, a rude welcome back yesterday, dumping his company's shares in heavy trading. Shares in Hong Kong's largest telecoms company [...]

HONG KONG -- It is a short walk between the Cheung Kong Center, where Hong Kong's richest man hangs his hat in the territory's central business district, and his son's [...]

HONG KONG and SINGAPORE -- Minority shareholders in Richard Li's Singapore-listed holding company will be given a rare opportunity to make or break months of delicate financial engineering by some [...]

HONG KONG -- Minority shareholders in the Singapore-listed holding company through which Richard Li controls PCCW yesterday rejected a buy-out bid from the telecommunications tycoon, setting the stage for a [...]

HONG KONG -- Tension in Hong Kong's wealthiest family burst into the open yesterday when Richard Li said publicly that he was 'dissatisfied' with the sale of his PCCW telecoms [...]

China Inc's extensive presence in Hong Kong has traditionally been muted. Its holdings include the territory's second-largest banking group, third-largest supermarket chain and minority interests in both the de facto [...]

HONG KONG -- China Network Communications, the state-owned telecoms company, has emerged as the single largest shareholder in Hong Kong's dominant carrier PCCW, after a controversial deal laced with political [...]

HONG KONG -- Spain's Telefonica is in negotiations to join a consortium buying a controlling stake in PCCW, Hong Kong's leading fixed-line operator. Telefonica is seeking to join forces with [...]

HONG KONG, BEIJING and SINGAPORE -- Richard Li has been barred from voting on the proposed Dollars 1.2bn sale of Hong Kong's leading telecoms firm, PCCW, in a decision that [...]

Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's richest man and head of one of its most globalised companies, Hutchison Whampoa, oversees a global empire. Controlling the world's biggest port empire, next generation mobile [...]

Less than a year before he snatched Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Telecom from rival bidder Singapore Telecommunications, Richard Li had his eyes on a different prize - the South [...]

HONG KONG -- PCCW, Hong Kong's dominant telecoms company, last night formally rejected two Dollars 7bn-plus offers from overseas buyers for its core assets. The announcement will disappoint investors, many [...]

Six years after it began, Richard Li's big adventure in telecommunications is drawing to a close. Hong Kong's young tycoon in a hurry set off a feeding frenzy when PCCW, [...]

HONG KONG -- PCCW and two rival suitors for the Hong Kong group's telecoms and media assets were locked in talks yesterday, with each seeking to recruit the support of [...]

HONG KONG -- China Netcom would emerge as the controlling shareholder in Hong Kong's core telecoms network, under a bid proposal crafted by Macquarie Group to win Beijing's favour for [...]

HONG KONG -- The progeny of Hong Kong's super rich tend not to wander far from the family firm. In a report issued this year, CLSA, an investment group, identified [...]