(Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai) — Bilibili (NASDAQ: BILI, 9626.HK) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the establishment of China’s largest UGC video website in Shanghai on June 26. Bilibili also announced that the ID display of all users in the first year of the website's establishment (June 26, 2009 - June 25, 2010) will turn gold and a commemorative coin will be issued. This bilibili was established in 2009, IPOed on Nasdaq in March 2018, and was secondary listed in Hong Kong in March 2021. Its revenue has increased from 4.1 billion yuan (US$564Million) a year at the time of first IPO to 5.66billion yuan a quarter at the end of Q1 2024. The MAU (monthly Active Users) and DAU (Daily Active Users) reached 341 million and 102 million respectively in Q1 of 2024. (the DAU and MAU tend of Bilibili source:Bilibili's report) However, until now, Bilibili is still unprofitable, and Bilibili's stock price has fallen by 90% from its highest point. Compared with its secondary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in March 2021,…

[caption id="attachment_1196" align="aligncenter" width="759"] HSBC headquarter for APAC in Hong Kong. Photo: Sai-pok Mu[/caption] Hong Kong/Beijing  -- HSBC holding (NYSE:HSBC, HKSE:0005, LSE:HSBA) surprisingly announced the retirement of its 62-year-old CEO on the same day it released its Q1 results report. The market was caught off guard. The board has not yet decided on a successor, and Quinn will remain in office until his successor starts in the role. He has also agreed to remain available through to the end of his 12-month notice period, HSBC said. The shocking departure When his departure was announced, many expressed shock. At the Q3 financial results conference in October 2022, Quinn expressed his intention to continue working in the group for the long term. And now, his choice is family. According the a statement released by the bank, he wrote “After an intense five years, it is now the right time for me to get a better balance between my personal and business life. I intend to pursue a portfolio career going forward.” According to Financial Times, there were…

This is an collaborate project with Nicholas OMalley. Boston– Emergency Shelter shortage - it’s been a problem for a while since November, 2023, while the state government uses transportation building(MTB) as a temporary solution for two weeks. Later in January this year, the Terminal E of Logan Airport was used as “de facto shelter” as well. Both of the locations are the overnight only shelter for the homeless families. And this temporary shelter has been kept until now. Where are the Shelters located across the state? The current families in the shelters are located in the state with significant locations around the Boston area. According to the bi-weekly report from the state, more than a half of families who currently stay in the state’s emergency shelter are located in the greater Boston Area. Most of the families live in the eastern part of the state. The families on the west side of the state are mostly located around the Springfield neighborhoods. In the Greater  Boston area, the city of boston took nearly 20% of the…

Methods: The first thing we did is use the data from the MA Emergency Assistance Shelter Report. In its Appendix A, there is a list and table of the total families. But since the report was on PDF we used an open-source tool called Tabula to get the data out from the report. After that we could import data to the tableau and create some charts and graphs based on the family. There is a small problem when we extract these data, which is the first three towns–Acton, Amherst, Andover– their total number is on the third column instead of every town else which was on the second column. So we made a little bit of adjustment on this. After we cleaned the data, we were finally able to import this csv file into tableau.  And we got some interesting findings which we discussed for the first time. So right here when we put data into the map, we found out that a lot of the resources and facility are located on the east side…

I was on a research to figure how how the Hong Kong housing price changed from years and compare by region. Although there is the chart provided by the Rating and Valuation Department. They only provide the number with three different(Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Tertiary. And the data was come with the five category by the area of the house. But there is no index that I could use to represent the overall price change for each region, and later on to the whole SAR. In order to get the overall price change for each region, I used the data from the Rating and Valuation Department, and by weighted arithmetic to create create an overall price for each region, they I can add them together to create a overall index of whole Hong Kong. And compare that data to with another data showing the overall data. there is a note on the data I used for this is “Changes in average prices between different periods may be due to variations in the characteristics of…

This is a collaborate project with David Cartledge. Original purpose and application These datasets were compiled by the MBTA to best inform commuters about the daily flow of public transit within the city of Boston. Using real time data collected and distributed by the MBTA, commuters are informed of any delays, slowdowns, or closures across the public transit system. Along with the knowledge of the delays, riders are informed of potential down time for each alert, as well as the reasoning behind the alert. This is the primary system the city uses to inform its riders of delays, as well as charts the accuracy of the delay warnings and ETA’s of the past through its years of logged data to best keep Bostonians informed. https://mbta-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/155ab68df00145cabddfb90377201b0e/explore https://mbta-massdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/90ed9092bd7a4285b296d5ff938edf29_0/explore History, standards, and format The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MASSDOT) has been compiling the dataset regarding the accuracy of the transit prediction system since 2020, while the system categorizing the reason for these shutdowns has been collected since the end of 2018. They have been the sole data collectors…

This is ongoing event, check back for update. All time are in Eastern Daylight Time(EDT)   20:01: Hong Kong Observatory received locally felt reports of this earth tremor 20:00: Japan Meteorological Agency issue a a tsunami warning to Okinawa, tsunami might come with a height of 3 meter(9.84ft) 20:00: according to Central Weather Administration, MOTC, the earthquake was a magnitude 7.2 quake. Hualien County area recorded an 6+ intensity, Taipei recorded 5-, Kaohsiung and Taichung recorded 4. 19:58: A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurred on the east coast of Taiwan。  

FS Paul Chan announced that the government is stopping all the extra stamp duties in his budget speech at LegCo. The extra stamp duties, as known as "spicy" measures, include Special Stamp Duty(SSD), Buyer’s Stamp Duty(BSD) and New Residential Stamp Duty(NRSD). 2010: The first time of extra stamp tax The first time that Hong Kong government introduced "spicy" was in November, 2010. The price on property went took of after recovering from the financial crisis, so the SSD was introduced. It asks the person who resale the property within the first 2 years of purchase to pay up to 15% of the selling price. 2012: Increase of SSD and Introduce of BSD Although the SSD was introduced to reduce short-term speculation on property, it resulted in a reduction in the number of properties on the second-hand market. This led to another rise in property prices. Therefore, two years later, in October 2012, the government increased the rate of SSD to a maximum of 20% and a minimum of 10%. The resale time limit was also…

Hong Kong-- Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific(0293.HK) released its 2023 Annual Result on Wednesday, marking its first profitable year after three years during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cathay Group reported an annual profit of 9.8 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.25 billion), the highest recorded profit since 2010. The profit includes a profit of HK$433 million from HK Express (an LCC acquired by the Cathay Group in 2019) and a non-cash gain of HK$1.9 billion from its dilution of interest in Air China. This arises from Cathay not participating in Air China's additional share issuance in 2023. Patrick Healy, the Chair of Cathay, said in the statement, "In 2023, we finally left the Covid-19 pandemic behind us." And the CEO, Ronald Lam, said, "We are ready to unleash the potential and innovation of our next exciting phase of development – Cathay is back!" Cathay Group pushed back its plan to restore flights to pre-pandemic level, from the end of 2024 to the first quarter in 2025 while it expects to reach 80% of flights within…

Financial Secretary of Hong Kong Paul Chan announced the immediate cancellation of all extra stamp duty measures for residential properties, known as "spicy" measures, included the Special Stamp Duty (SSD), Buyer's Stamp Duty (BSD), and New Residential Stamp Duty (NRSD), concluding 13 years of "spicy" measures history. "We consider that the relevant measures are no longer necessary amidst the current economic and market conditions." [mfn]orginal speech given in Cantonese, quote from English transcript.[/mfn]Chan said. The 'Spicy' measures were reduced four months earlier, on Oct. 25. The applicable period of the SSD was shortened from three years to two years, and the BSD and NRSD were halved. A stamp duty suspension arrangement was also introduced. However, that didn't stop the continuous drop in residential property prices. According to the data from Rating and Valuation Department, the price index has recorded a continuous drop for nine months since May 2023. This includes a 5% drop since October 2023, when the first reduction in the 'Spicy' measures was implemented. The current (last month) price index for private residential…