About TOPick

TOPick

TOPick is a Hong Kong Chinese-language online news and lifestyle platform operated by Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings — the HKET Group — and published at topick.hket.com. The HKET Group is a Hong Kong-listed diversified multimedia company whose businesses span the Hong Kong Economic Times newspaper and hket.com, recruitment and lifestyle platforms. Within that structure TOPick serves as the group's family- and lifestyle-oriented news platform, covering Hong Kong current affairs, education, parenting, health and consumer news in Chinese. It is a distinct platform brand: not hket.com, the financial newspaper's own site with its professional finance and property analysis, and not EJ Insight, the group's English service. TOPick is where one of Hong Kong's most serious financial media groups speaks to readers as parents, patients, shoppers and householders rather than as investors.

The Parent: Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings

Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited, the HKET Group, is a diversified multi-media company listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong on 3 August 2005, under stock code 00423. Its core business, the publication of the Hong Kong Economic Times, was established in 1988, and the group describes the paper as the leading financial newspaper in Hong Kong, ranked number one on media credibility in its annual-report summaries. The newspaper itself was founded on 26 January 1988 by Lawrence S. P. Fung, the group's chairman, Perry Mak, its managing director, Arthur Shek Kang-chuen, its executive director, and other founders, with a HK$20 million investment. A Harvard-affiliated Asia Case Research Centre study describes the paper as the first Chinese-language financial newspaper in Hong Kong, launched when the city's economy was booming to be the Chinese-language equivalent of the Financial Times. TOPick inherits that institution's newsroom, distribution and brand trust, and redirects them at lifestyle subjects.

The Group Around TOPick

TOPick sits inside a deliberately diversified portfolio, which the group's annual reports organise into business domains spanning finance, property, human resources, education and lifestyle. Besides the Hong Kong Economic Times and hket.com, the group owns the free newspaper Sky Post, launched on 27 July 2011 and described as the second-largest free newspaper in Hong Kong; iMoney, a financial weekly launched on 27 October 2007 focusing on wealth management, business features, marketing, workplace topics and personal development; U Magazine, a weekly travel magazine launched in December 2005; e-zone, a mass-market IT magazine spun off from the newspaper in late 2003; the U Lifestyle platform family, including U Travel, U HK, U Beauty and U Food; CTgoodjobs, its recruitment business; ET Net, its financial news agency serving the professional market; and Health Smart among its lifestyle properties. The group's stated strategy, in its own annual-report language and in case-study accounts, is diversification and differentiation — and TOPick is the lifestyle-news expression of that strategy.

What TOPick Publishes

TOPick's brief, as described in HKET Group company descriptions, is Hong Kong current affairs, education, parenting, health and consumer news in Chinese — the family- and lifestyle-oriented side of the group's journalism. The HKET app's description, which folds TOPick lifestyle content into the group's main mobile offering, fills in the texture: tracking current affairs and social news; family focus, health, parent-child and entertainment information; education information for cultivating Band 1 children, encyclopedias and primary school test questions; expert analysis across family and health channels; and regular features including health consultations and cooking skills. That combination is distinctive in Hong Kong media: a platform where school-placement advice, children's test papers, health explainers and consumer reporting sit alongside the day's social news, produced by a group whose flagship competence is explaining finance and property to professionals.

TOPick and the HKET App

TOPick's content travels with the group's flagship mobile product. The Hong Kong Economic Times app — its full listing title names finance, real estate, current affairs and TOPick lifestyle — is published by Hong Kong Economic Times Limited, has been on Google Play since January 2013, and had accumulated around 550,000 installs in app-directory data dated October 2026. The app promises the most accurate, fastest and most comprehensive financial, real estate, current affairs and social news and life information, updated twenty-four hours a day: local, Chinese and global economic news, Hang Seng Index and stock movements, IPO information, expert analysis, property market trends and transaction news, alongside the family, health, parent-child and entertainment information that is TOPick's territory, and practical tools from mortgage calculators to primary school test questions. The naming of the app itself — TOPick lifestyle given equal billing with finance and property — shows the platform's weight inside the group: lifestyle is not an afterthought but one of the four pillars in the product's title.

Education and Parenting: The Hong Kong Obsession

Education is the sharpest edge of TOPick's lifestyle brief, because education is one of Hong Kong's most intense parental preoccupations. The app's documented education content — information for cultivating Band 1 children, the banding label attached to Hong Kong's most sought-after secondary schools, encyclopedias, and primary school test questions — speaks to a readership of parents navigating school allocation, interviews and examinations. A financial newspaper group is well placed for this market: its readers are disproportionately the professional and managerial parents who compete hardest in the school system, and TOPick converts the group's authority with that demographic into parenting and education journalism. The parenting content sits alongside family-focus news and parent-child features in the group's channels, making TOPick, in effect, the HKET Group's address for the domestic half of its readers' lives, as hket.com is its address for the investing half.

Health and Consumer News

Health is the second pillar of the documented TOPick brief, and consumer news the third. The group's channels include a dedicated health channel with expert analysis and health consultations, and the HKET app description lists health devices among its practical tools and health among its standing information categories, alongside family and entertainment. Consumer reporting — prices, products, household spending and the practical economics of daily life — connects TOPick back to the group's financial DNA: the same publishing house that explains interest rates and property cycles to investors explains household value to shoppers. The group's portfolio reinforces the point, with Health Smart among its lifestyle properties and Sky Post, its free newspaper, positioned as a health, entertainment and family-life information channel for families and middle-class office workers. TOPick's online form concentrates that family-health-consumer formula in a single Chinese-language platform brand.

Distinct from hket.com and EJ Insight

Precision about brands matters for this entry, because the HKET Group operates several overlapping digital properties. Hket.com is the financial newspaper's own site: marketing-industry surveys repeatedly ranked it first among Hong Kong's local business and finance websites, noting that it provides the digital edition of the Hong Kong Economic Times with a news archive reaching back to 2005 in earlier surveys and 2010 in later ones, and professional analysis on finance, property markets and the macro economy across mobile, tablet and desktop. EJ Insight is the group's English-language service, covered separately in this directory. TOPick is neither: it is the Chinese-language lifestyle platform, at its own address, topick.hket.com, distinguished by subject — family, education, health, consumer and social news — rather than by language or by device. Readers who would never open a stock page open TOPick for a school story or a health explainer; that is the audience extension the group's diversification strategy was designed to buy.

Scrutiny and the Competitive Market

TOPick operates in one of Asia's most competitive digital news markets, and it has not been free of scrutiny: reference accounts of the Hong Kong Economic Times record allegations that Sky Post and TOPick reporters plagiarised stories reported by other online media without permission, including copying text and reproducing video contents as text and screenshots without attribution. The allegations are recorded here as part of the platform's documented public record. The market context is equally documented: marketing-industry media reports through 2018–2024 show Hong Kong marketers ranking the group's properties at or near the top of the business and finance categories year after year, with hket.com taking the top local business and finance website spot for four consecutive years to 2018. TOPick's lifestyle flank competes in the categories those same surveys award to U Lifestyle and other lifestyle portals — the arena in which a finance group's family platform must prove it belongs.

TOPick Today

Today TOPick continues at topick.hket.com as the HKET Group's Chinese-language family and lifestyle news platform: Hong Kong current affairs, education, parenting, health and consumer news, distributed on the web and through the group's apps alongside the flagship financial journalism of the Hong Kong Economic Times. Its parent group — founded in 1988, listed in 2005, owner of Sky Post, iMoney, U Magazine, U Lifestyle, CTgoodjobs and ET Net — remains one of Hong Kong's most diversified Chinese media companies, and TOPick is the clearest sign of how far that diversification reaches: from a HK$20 million financial newspaper start-up to a platform helping Hong Kong parents choose schools and read test papers. For this directory, TOPick is the Hong Kong lifestyle entry among China's online news outlets — a platform brand of a financial group, defined by the domestic subjects its flagship leaves to it.