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SINGAPORE/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Singapore and Hong Kong now have identical 15 percent levies to slow the foreign money that has added fuel to their overheated property markets – measures that will help first-time buyers but throw the spotlight on investors' next targets. The curbs on residential real estate purchases could shift demand to retail [...]
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Singapore, Hong Kong look to cool not kill property markets
Posted by admin on January 16th, 2013
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No Comments »Hong Kong proposes restrictions on public access to company data
Posted by admin on January 9th, 2013
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong has proposed a new law that would allow company directors to keep their personal details secret, after a series of media reports revealed information about the wealth and assets of some senior Chinese officials. Under the planned rule, directors could apply to have their residential addresses and full identity [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: access, Company, data, Hong, Kong, proposes, public, restrictions No Comments »New Hong Kong leader urged to quit over illegal basement scandal
Posted by admin on December 10th, 2012
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying said on Monday he had been negligent and apologized for his handling of a scandal over an illegally built basement that stoked angry calls for his resignation. Leung, who took office in July, was criticized by pro-democracy and pro-establishment lawmakers in the legislature for failing to [...]
Psoriasis patients look to Hong Kong government for help – and hope
Posted by admin on November 26th, 2012
HONG KONG (Reuters) – When Gary Lai first came down with the skin disease psoriasis, he got so tired of the stigma he faced in the outside world that he would lock himself away in his apartment whenever he didn’t have to be at work. “When you have to apply ointment all over your body, [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: government, Help, Hong, hope, Kong, Look, patients, Psoriasis No Comments »Hong Kong makes its biggest seizure of illegal ivory
Posted by admin on October 21st, 2012
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong seized HK$ 26.7 million ($ 3.5 million) of ivory tusks and ornaments smuggled from Africa, authorities said, the territory's largest ever seizure of illicit ivory that is still widely sought despite an international ban. Customs officers in Hong Kong and neighboring Guangdong confiscated the ivory, weighing a total of [...]
Romney fundraiser planned Thursday in Hong Kong
Posted by admin on September 26th, 2012
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plan a campaign fundraiser for him Thursday in Hong Kong as U.S.-China trade friction becomes an issue in the White House race. Tweet This Post
New Hong Kong leader gets poll boost as anti-China vote fizzles
Posted by admin on September 10th, 2012
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong's new Beijing-backed leader emerged the big winner of local elections on Monday, his allies holding their seats as pro-democracy groups failed to capitalize on weeks of angry protest against China-linked policies. The unexpectedly poor showing by the pro-democracy camp led veteran Albert Ho to quit as chairman of the [...]
Hong Kong gold shipments to China up 12 pct in July-HK govt
Posted by admin on September 10th, 2012
SINGAPORE, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Hong Kong shipped 75.841tonnes of gold to mainland China in July, up 12 percent from theprevious month, the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Departmentsaid. (www.censtatd.gov.hk) The department also said 29.869 tonnes of gold entered HongKong from China, up 11 percent from the previous month’s 26.997tonnes. (Reporting by Rujun Shen; Editing [...]
Hong Kong votes after U-turn on China education plan
Posted by admin on September 9th, 2012
(Reuters) – Hong Kong residents voted for a new legislature on Sunday, a day after the territory’s Beijing-backed leader backed down on a plan to introduce a compulsory Chinese school curriculum after tens of thousands of people took to the streets. Some 3.4 million of the city’s seven million people are eligible to directly elect [...]
Hong Kong backs down on China-backed education plan after protests
Posted by admin on September 8th, 2012
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government said on Saturday schools did not have to adopt a China-backed curriculum from 2015 in an apparent backdown following protests by tens of thousands of people who described it as an attempt to brainwash students. Parents, teachers and students have staged a week-long protest, claiming the curriculum [...]
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