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Easter weekend property sales fall flat in Hong Kong as buyers wait for new project launches
Sun, 04 Apr 2021 18:36

A streak of sell-out weekends for residential property in Hong Kong ended on Sunday when three developers managed to sell only 20 out of 148 flats between them.Wheelock Properties and Sino Land had sold just 13 uni...

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Covid-19 pushes Hong Kong arts groups to embrace technology, with help from HK$20 million fund
Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:53

The show will go on at last for Benis Cheng’s dance project, after two years of delays caused first by the social unrest of 2019 and then the Covid-19 pandemi...

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‘Financial freedom’ costs US$4 million in Hong Kong, second only to London, data from property portal Juwai shows
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:30

When it comes to achieving “financial freedom” – the ability to maintain a desirable lifestyle without having to work – only London is more expensive th...

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Hong Kong businesses bloom over Easter as holiday spending locally almost reaches pre-coronavirus levels
Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:00

Hotels, restaurants and theme parks in Hong Kong recorded a sharp rebound in business during the five-day Easter break, while the catering sector sought to impr...

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Some Hongkongers are arbitraging between city’s record home prices and cheaper listings overseas as they head for the exit
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 10:33

Some Hong Kong emigrants are taking advantage of the price difference between their homes in the city and cheaper real estate overseas, as they rush for the exi...

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‘I’m very dissatisfied with TVB’s performance,’ says Chinese media tycoon Li Ruigang
Wed, 07 Apr 2021 14:00

When Li Ruigang met Hong Kong’s media in October 2016, the Chinese mogul had high hopes for the city’s dominant free-to-air broadcast network Television Bro...

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Greater Bay Area: Hong Kong should remake itself as supply chain ‘control tower’, ‘aviation metropolis’ to capitalise on opportunities, report says
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 08:00

Hong Kong should aim to be the “control tower” for Asia’s supply chains, and could play a leadership role in advancing the development of China’s Greate...

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Hongkongers stranded by coronavirus travel ban battle to get home from Britain in ‘Hunger Games-style’ fight for flights
Thu, 08 Apr 2021 22:08

Hundreds of seats on two special flights intended to bring stranded Hongkongers home from Britain after the end of a coronavirus travel ban were snapped up in t...

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Hong Kong stock exchange to extend circuit breakers to futures products to temper wild gyrations in equities and derivatives
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 11:10

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), the market operator, will further expand its circuit-breaker mechanism to temper wild swings in the price of f...

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Tourism Board website hosting HK$10 million hotel discount giveaway in Hong Kong crashes under intense demand
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 18:32

The website hosting the Hong Kong Tourism Board’s giveaway of HK$10 million (US$1.28 million) worth of hotel discounts crashed on Friday under intense demand ...

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Hong Kong tourism commissioner to take over as interim head of debt-ridden Ocean Park
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 19:25

Hong Kong Commissioner for Tourism Joe Wong Chi-cho is set to be seconded to the loss-making Ocean Park to serve as its chief executive for about six months sta...

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Companies head back to Central where tumbling office rents in Hong Kong’s prime business district have made trophy addresses affordable
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 08:30

International companies are relocating back to Central, Hong Kong main’s business district, where rents are down by a quarter from two years ago, giving organ...

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Hong Kong graduates will enter anaemic job market this year, statistics suggest
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:00

Hong Kong’s class of 2021 will graduate this summer amid a relatively bleak job market under the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, latest sta...

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Shenzhen property: how home prices in the Chinese tech hub compare to Hong Kong’s
Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:56

Shenzhen was nothing more than a fishing village four decades ago, before China carved out its first special economic zone to experiment with market capitalis...

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Hong Kong picks AlipayHK, Octopus, Tap & Go and WeChat Pay HK as e-payment providers for HK$5,000 digital voucher scheme, set to launch in summer
Sun, 11 Apr 2021 10:42

Four electronic payment service providers – AlipayHK, Octopus, Tap & Go and WeChat Pay HK – have been chosen to operate Hong Kong’s HK$5,000 (US$643) vouc...

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Hongkongers flock to support AbouThai retail chain raided by customs officers over mislabelled goods
Sun, 11 Apr 2021 20:03

Hundreds of shoppers have flocked to support a pro-democracy Hong Kong retail chain for a third straight day, after authorities seized HK$400,000 (US$51,400) wo...

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London making it easier for Hongkongers to apply for visas through BN(O) scheme
Sun, 11 Apr 2021 23:10

London has made it easier for Hongkongers to access the new pathway to citizenship under the controversial British National (Overseas) visa scheme, allowing hus...

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Coronavirus: digital wallets and stored-value cards to be used as Macau boosts consumer e-voucher scheme, a move Hong Kong urged to make reference to for its own programme
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:23

Macau will use digital wallets along with a popular stored-value card to roll out an upgraded consumer voucher scheme from as early as June, a move industry lea...

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Hong Kong lawyers urged to make most of new opportunities presented by Beijing’s 14th five-year plan
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:41

Pro-Beijing heavyweights and Hong Kong’s justice minister have called on lawyers in the city to make use of their strengths to take part in China’s grand de...

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Hong Kong coronavirus: Britain ban lifted, but ‘chaos’ over special flights has some criticising coordination
Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:14

Hong Kong residents stranded in Britain have largely welcomed a government decision to lift the city’s coronavirus-related ban on arrivals from the country th...

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China’s population is set to peak in just four years’ time and the...

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:00
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China’s central bank kept an accommodative policy stance in the firs...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:30
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Mon, 03 May 2021 07:00
China’s post-coronavirus consumer spending ‘not enough’ to drive growth, says prominent economist

China should accelerate infrastructure investment this year as consump...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:39
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China will suspend the ability of foreign investors to trade if they c...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:31
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Improved global demand and a favourable base effect are likely to have...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 22:00
Semiconductor-starved mainland China seen driving long-term surge in exports from Taiwan

The first-quarter jump in tech powerhouse Taiwan’s export orders fro...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 21:00
Hong Kong lawyers urged to make most of new opportunities presented by Beijing’s 14th five-year plan

Pro-Beijing heavyweights and Hong Kong’s justice minister have calle...

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:41
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Hong Kong authorities have imposed their “toughest infection-control...

Sat, 17 Apr 2021 12:19
China debt: local government spending under microscope to protect national economy from ‘systemic risk’

The Chinese leadership regards the prevention of implicit local govern...

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