-- Standard Chartered (HKG:2888) bought back 849,232 shares on Monday at an average price of 17.57 pounds sterling apiece, according to a Tuesday Hong Kong bourse filing.
The British lender plans to cancel the shares, following which it will have about 2.22 billion shares in issue.
Sangfor Technologies' (SHE:300454) attributable loss narrowed by 74% to 64.5 million yuan in the first quarter from 249.6 million yuan in the year-ago period, according to a Tuesday filing with the Shenzhen bourse.The information technology company's loss per share was 0.15 yuan, narrower by 75% from 0.59 yuan in the prior-year period.Operating revenue grew 29% year over year to 1.63 billion yuan from 1.26 billion yuan.