Billionaire Kuok Family-Backed Music App BandLab Taps Into AI For TikTok’s Breakout Stars

A scion of Malaysia’s richest family, Kuok Meng Ru transformed his love of classic rock and blues into a music empire. Looking ahead, his music production app BandLab aims to help everyone create song...

Hong Kong Luxury Watch Seller Raises $8 Million From Gobi Partners, Kuok Meng Xiong’s K3 Ventures

Wristcheck cofounders Austen Chu and Sean Wong. Courtesy of Wristcheck Wristcheck, a Hong Kong-based luxury watch consignment retailer, raised $8 million in a seed funding round led by Gobi Partners G...

Philippine Billionaire Andrew Tan’s Emperador To Broaden Investor Base With Secondary Listing on SGX

Andrew Tan, chairman of Alliance Global, with his eldest son Kevin, CEO of the Philippine … [+] conglomerate. Courtesy of Alliance Global Emperador—controlled by billionaire Andrew Tan—will star...

Robert Kuok’s Kerry Properties Sells Hong Kong Warehouses To China Resources For $588 Million

Robert Kuok Nora Tam/SCMP Kerry Properties—controlled by Malaysia’s richest person Robert Kuok—has agreed to sell two of its warehouses in Hong Kong to China Resources Logistics, a unit of state-owned...

Hotel Chains From Hilton To Shangri-La Are Expanding Across Asia On Post-Pandemic Recovery Hopes

Hotel chains from Hilton—the world’s second largest hospitality group—to billionaire Robert Kuok’s Shangri-La are accelerating expansion plans across the Asia-Pacific region, betting on a post-pandemi...

Kerry Properties Pays $2.1 Billion For China Land Rights As Healthy Developers Keep Buying

The Bund Bull statue in Shanghai yesterday. A wall of maturing debt and a surge in seasonal demand … [+] for cash will test China’s financial markets this month. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloombe...