PCCW

PCCW’s media unit secures IT help and mainland China connections in battle with cable cutters and pirates. Richard Li's company must also beat Netflix and Amazon to local language content.

PCCW offloads HKT Trust stake in Hong Kong’s first billion-dollar block trade in 10 months. That points at a likely revival in Hong Kong's slumbering equities market.

CEO Janice Lee talks about battling cable cutters and pirates while turbo-charging a regional rollout of hot new media technology OTT via M&A. Local rival TVB meanwhile gives up.

If Warren Buffet is the Oracle of Omaha, Li Kai-shing is the Sage of South China. And Li's dynasy extends well beyond the region; the tycoon recently acquired a telecom in the EU.

An undisclosed shareholder has raised $180 million from an accelerated placement in the Hong Kong telecoms company.

Demand was strong for Richard Li's telecom trust, which will use the proceeds to pay down some of its substantial debt.

The chairman raises $161 million on the back of a 75% gain in the share price since listing. An anchor investor takes about 70% of the deal.

How the promise of increased British competitiveness and greater prosperity has not materialised, and why I didn’t get to grow up in Hawaii.

PCCW, Hong Leong Bank, Shenzhen International and CNPC rush to sell dollar bonds on Thursday as market activity picks up after the Easter break.