ALL ARTICLES - HONG KONG

• PARIS - Amarante looks for risks facing the AFD

• LONDON/WASHINGTON - Hakluyt's springtime recruits and fresh funds
  

• ZURICH - Brasidas taps into Schillings talent pool
  

• HONG KONG - JS Held closes local office
  

• CAMBRIDGE - Activists target Charles River Associates
  

• LONDON - Mitmark called in to investigate NFTs

• LONDON - Adrian Stones goes solo

• HONG KONG - TRAG joins exodus

Boris Johnson consults corporate intelligence firms on China 

As it puts the finishing touches on its new Investment Security Unit, set up to prevent attempts at economic predation on UK businesses, especially from China, 10 Downing Street is turning to corporate intelligence firms to help with the task.

Ex-Kroll bureau chief Richard Dailly still believes in Hong Kong's private investigation market 

Despite the pressure from Beijing, Hong Kong continues to attract private investigation firms.

Hong Kong police still rocky after Choi scandal 

The Hong Kong Police Force continues to reshuffle its team, with Frederic Choi Chin-pang, the former head of national security, demoted to director of personnel and training.

Beijing's VIE crackdown a boost for Hong Kong corporate intelligence firms 

Many companies are calling on Hong Kong business intelligence firms to better understand the impact of Beijing's latest measures regarding variable interest entities (VIEs), which give foreigners a backdoor way to invest in Chinese companies.

Hong Kong awash with new security units 

China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office now has its own national security department, as Beijing clamps down on the former British colony.

Mainland's tightening grip on Hong Kong security agencies jostled by massage parlour raid 

The director of the Hong Kong Police Force's national security department, Frederic Choi Chin-pang, was placed on leave this month, hamstringing an office that has seen its powers rapidly expand under Beijing's national security law.

Hong Kong Aerospace to help monitor cities for Beijing 

Several executives at the satellite company Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group (HKATG) have ties with China's United Front Work Department, which is responsible for influence campaigns abroad.

Hong Kong security organ adds big data-focused Gonganbu official 

Zheng Zehui, a police chief who has called for greater police cooperation between Hong Kong, Macau, and the mainland, has joined the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong.

Ex-CIA officer Pockette takes charge of Oceania operations at Kalavinka 

The Hong Kong-based corporate intelligence firm Bridger Intelligence rebranded to Kalavinka late last year.

Jin Ling, from Control Risks to Artemis 

Jin Ling has joined the small Hong Kong based reputation [...]

Spectrum reformed and under new management 

The Hong Kong and Bangkok-based China and South East Asia [...]

Facebook drops San Francisco-Hong Kong submarine cable amid growing national security concerns 

Facebook has withdrawn its proposal for the Bay to Bay Express Cable System (BtoBE), according to a September 10 FCC filing. The move comes just weeks after the social media giant abandoned the Hong Kong link of another trans-Pacific submarine cable, the Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN), after US agencies flagged the project for potential national security risks.

Private investigation world jittery about security law 

Hong Kong's new security law passed by the Chinese government on June 30, curbing the freedoms of the former British [...]

Bridger, ex-CIA and MI6 outfit, loses Japan adviser 

Correction issued on 27 May 2020: Following the publication of this article on 27 May, Alastair Campbell, Bridger Intelligence's chairman, [...]

Whitehouse Consultancy operates in Parliament for Hong Kong lobby 

In addition to its public campaigns to win the support [...]

After 30 years of independence, Goddard goes in-house at Standard 

Australian Simon Goddard, an Asia investigations veteran, has been appointed [...]