Category: Hong Kong
HK avoids technical recession as growth returns
Hong Kong’s economy returned to modest growth in the third quarter, helped by improving exports and rising domestic consumption, officials said Friday. Gross domestic [...]
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HK tops world shop rent list
Hong Kong’s bustling shopping district of Causeway Bay has knocked New York’s Fifth Avenue off the top of the list of most expensive places to rent retail space [...]
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HK rejects US criticism of ‘one country, two systems’
When it comes to questions about Hong Kong’s autonomy, the government’s position is fairly straightforward: Don’t worry about us, we’re doing just [...]
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HK most optimistic market in Asia-Pacific for luxury spending
Hong Kong is the most optimistic market in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of its luxury spending outlook; but the mainlanders still top the charts in terms of spending [...]
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Taiwan Semiconductor expects to ride trend to 2016
The stock has gained ground during this market correction, even as the chip group has lost more than the indexes. The S&P 500 has fallen about 8 percent since [...]
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In HK, modern slavery for indentured workers
Sitting on a picnic blanket in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park with fellow Indonesian domestic workers on a Sunday in October, 34-year-old Arida is holding back tears. [...]
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HK planned IPO to value China insurer at $20.8b – sources
State-owned People’s Insurance Co. (Group) of China Ltd, one of the country’s biggest insurers by premiums, is planning a listing that will value the firm at [...]
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HK stock exchange hacker sentenced to jail
The hacker who broke into the Hong Kong stock exchange news Web site last year has been sentenced to nine months in jail. A South China Morning Post (SCMP) report Saturday [...]
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HK to cut Iranian ships from register: letter
Hong Kong will stop allowing 19 ships linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) from operating under its flag, a government letter showed, in the latest [...]
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Hands off HK’s Judiciary
Beijing’s leadership transition has led to the usual speculation about whether new President Xi Jinping and the rest of his crew will offer any more quarter to [...]
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China keeps gold bugs smiling
If China’s love affair with gold was set to music, it might well be to 70s duo The Carpenters. The message from day one of this year’s London Bullion Market [...]
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London to lose title of world’s finance capital, study warns
London can expect to lose its crown as the leading global centre for high finance this year amid a barrage of City job cuts, falling bonuses and competition from rival hubs [...]
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HK fears impact of US stimulus
On two days within a week late in October the Hong Kong Monetary Authority intervened in the currency markets to contain the value of the local currency. Action was taken to [...]
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Canadian PM honours war dead in HK AFP
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper Sunday visited a war cemetery in Hong Kong, paying tribute to Canadian troops who lost their lives defending the city against Japanese [...]
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HK will suffer effects of US woes, Tsang warns
Hong Kong’s economy is likely to suffer if US lawmakers fail to avert the so-called “fiscal cliff,” Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah warned Fiscal [...]
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