** Shares of oncology medicine-focused biopharmaceutical
firm Antengene Corp Ltd 6996.HK trade as high as HK$19.68 per
share in Hong Kong debut, up 8.8% from the IPO price of HK$18.08
apiece
** Stock ranks seventh most actively traded shares by
turnover
** Shanghai-based Antengene offered 154.15 mln shares in
Hong Kong IPO, raising HK$2.79 bln ($359.8 mln) for development
of core products in oncology therapies, and for expanding
pipeline of new drug candidates urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN2I410I
** The Hang Seng China enterprises index .HSCE edges down
0.1%, while the benchmark index .HSI gains 0.3%
($1 = 7.7534 Hong Kong dollars)
(Reuters Messaging: donny.kwok.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)