Hong Kong welcomed 18 more big employers — including its first pharma firms from Japan and South Korea

Hong Kong's Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises has signed up its seventh batch of strategic companies — 18 firms across artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, life sciences and fintech, expected to invest more than HK$10 billion (about $1.3 billion) and create over 1,600 high-end jobs. The newcomers include, for the first time, a pharmaceutical company from Japan and one from South Korea. Across all seven batches, 142 companies are now expected to bring about HK$84 billion (about $10.7 billion) in investment and roughly 26,700 jobs.

SDG 8 · Decent work and economic growth — Mechanism: funding & finance