Category: FINANCE

For one working couple, budget measures add up to more than HK$85,000 in reliefs, savings, handouts Young mum hopes government can consider offering 'practical help' such as school fee waivers too ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of America’s co-head of global capital markets in Asia-Pacific is leaving Hong Kong after less than two years as harsh pandemic restrictions prompt an exodus of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong government has made a habit of 'underestimating surpluses, overestimating deficits' Economist calls for more transparent profit tax regime and a crackdown on corporate tax evasion Financial ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong fell to second last among the 53 places scored in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking in February, marking a rapid decline over the past few months. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s finance chief has sought to play down concerns about the decision to distribute handouts to residents in the form of digital consumption vouchers after being taken to task in some quarters ... ( read original story ...)

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong private home prices dropped for the fourth consecutive month in January to the lowest since February 2021, official data showed on Thursday, as the financial city was ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s financial secretary is stuck between a pandemic rock and an economic hard place. Paul Chan on Wednesday laid out a budget for the financial year starting in April dedicating HK$170 billion ... ( read original story ...)

Omicron surge throws football season into doubt as Hong Kong extends lockdown There are eight teams in the BOC Premier League this season but so far only four rounds out of a total 14 have been ... ( read original story ...)

For Chan, there had been no lack of critical challenges since becoming financial secretary in January 2017, with the city going through several economic and political upheavals. But the current ... ( read original story ...)

After two years of recession, Hong Kong’s economy heated up last year, and growth is expected to continue this year—albeit at a slower pace. ( read original story ...)

The proposals could be seen as an extension of the listing reforms introduced in 2018, which allowed technology firms with multiple classes of voting rights and pre-revenue biotechnology firms to list ... ( read original story ...)

From 2023-24, residential property owners will be able to apply for tax rebates for one self-occupied home only. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong launched a new round of financial handouts as the city struggles to contain China’s biggest outbreak of coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, even as economists warned the city’s zero ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong will expand mask-wearing to all public places, including in parks and during outdoor exercise, as its latest outbreak worsens. Londoners, by contrast, will no longer be required to wear face ... ( read original story ...)