** Shares of high-performance data centre developer and
operator GDS Holdings Ltd 9698.HK trade as high as HK$83.25
per share on their debut in Hong Kong, up 2.9% from the offer
price of HK$80.88 apiece
** Shanghai-based GDS GDS.O sold 160 mln shares in its
public offering in Hong Kong, raising HK$12.9 bln ($1.66 bln) to
expand its platform of high-performance data centres and to fund
development of new technologies urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASA01A36
** The Hong Kong Hang Seng sub-index tracking information
technology firms .HSCIIT climbs 0.3%, while the Hang Seng Tech
Index .HSTECH slides 0.2%%
** The Hang Seng China enterprises index .HSCE rises 1.1%,
and the benchmark index .HSI climbs 0.9%
($1 = 7.7544 Hong Kong dollars)
(Reuters Messaging: donny.kwok.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)