Jun.17 — Danny Yeung, chief executive officer of Prenetics Group, a genetics-enabled digital health company headquartered in Hong Kong with offices in the U.K. and across Southeast Asia, explains how the startup is helping soccer’s English Premier League get back on the pitch. Prenetics’ shareholders include Jack Ma’s Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, and San Francisco-headquartered 500 Startups. Yeung speaks on “Bloomberg Markets: Asia.”
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The Premier League, often referred to as the English Premier League or the EPL, is the top level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football League. Seasons run from August to May with each team playing 38 matches.
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Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.
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