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After the legalization of soccer betting in Hong Kong, it, as what other popular local Chinese newspapers have done, reports the news related to European Soccer.
It was first published on January 26, 1988, with its mission of providing businessmen, executives, investors and professionals with economic news in Hong Kong. As a financial metropolitan, Hong Kong readers have growing desire to keep in touch with the stock and property markets. The HKET hence launched to graspe this huge potential market and has been trying to keep a closer touch with IT, and the trend of career advertisement.
In order to beat its keen competitiors and graspe a good chance to promote its popularity so as to strive for the best, the HKET publishes a variety of magazines of which contents range from IT to property market. They are distributed free of charge to the newspaper readers or sold at low price if purchased individually. The magazines have quite a large group of regular readers. With this direction,it diversifies its products from newspaper to magazines, books and even e-news.
The Hong Kong Economic Times Group established the ET Net Limited in 1994. It is now one of the leading financial news provider in Hong Kong. Today, Over 80% of Hong Kong's brokerage firms and 90% of banks are subscribing to ET Net's stock quotation and information terminals. In 2000, http://www.etnet.com.hk was launched as an online financial information service to complement the professional product. It is now the most popular financial web sites in Hong Kong with real time stock quotation service.
Other than Stock news, the Hong Kong Economic Times Group also focuses on providing news related to property market. It established EPRC in 1991 to provide professional property information including asking price and transaction prices as well as China property information for trade practitioners. In November 1999, EPRC Online, http://www.eprc.com.hk, was launched to enable easy access of property information to user.
Careertimes.com.hk, an online version of Career Times, was launched in 1999 by Career Times Online Limited, a joint venture of Hong Kong Economic Times and iBusiness Corporation. With exclusive hirings from Cheung Kong Holdings (長江集團), HSBC (滙豐銀行), Hutchison Whampoa (和記黃埔) and Hang Seng Bank (恆生銀行), it is the leading recruitment portal in Hong Kong with more than 300,000 members, 450,000 daily page views and over 6,000 corporate openings available online every week. The 'digitalization' of the magazine is very successful .
i-ezone.com (http://www.i-ezone.com) is the online version of e-zone magazine which provides the latest news and information about different types of IT products like the most updated computer information and price comparison. "Jetso Street" for the weekly benefit of e-zone can also be found at the website.
It was long ago the HKET Press started publishing, annually, reference books of stock market analaysis. Readers had to collect a required amount of the headings of its newspaper so as to purchase the book at discounted price. The scheme was well received and it still continues. Currently, a wider scope of books covering fields of investment, business, management and executive life style are also published. Besides, as IT becomes more and more popular, readers are able to purchase the books from the site of the HKET Press: " class="external">http://www.etpress.com.hk/
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History
Publishing Business
Electronic Information provider & E-commerce Enabler
The Internet business
Book Publishing
Education
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