Home seekers are likely to afford bigger living spaces during a softening property market,” said Michael Lee, associate director of professional real estate advisory and valuation at Prudential ... ( read original story ...)
Carbon neutrality: HSBC invests US$100 million in Bill Gates-led green tech programme to support decarbonisation of heavy polluting sectors
HSBC, which has set itself the goal of net-zero carbon emissions in its loans portfolio by 2050, has joined a global programme to accelerate the development of green technologies with a US$100 million ... ( read original story ...)
HSBC Buys back over 3.75M Shrs in London Last Fri for over GBP19.86M
HSBC HOLDINGS (00005.HK) announced that it had repurchased 3.7578 million shares of the company in the London market last Friday (28th), at a price ranging between GBP5.258 and GBP5.339 each, with a ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Covid-Zero Strategy Is on the Brink of Collapse
Hong Kong has never been closer to losing its Covid-Zero battle. As residents prepare for another Chinese New Year under Covid-19 restrictions, omicron seems to have gotten the better of the city’s ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong cabinet minister steps down over tapas party
A Hong Kong cabinet minister resigned on Monday for attending a birthday party alongside dozens of officials and lawmakers just days after the city's government had called on people to avoid large ... ( read original story ...)
Live news: Senior Hong Kong official quits over Omicron karaoke party fallout
A senior Hong Kong official resigned on Monday over his attendance at a karaoke birthday party during the city’s first Omicron variant Covid-19 outbreak. Caspar Tsui, the territory’s home affairs ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Official Resigns After Flouting Covid Rules at Party
A senior Hong Kong government official has resigned after attending a large birthday party that fueled complaints of double standards by authorities enforcing strict Covid-control measures. ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus Hong Kong: time to live with the virus? Sweeping fifth wave forces officials to consider the previously unthinkable
When Hong Kong set a daily record of 164 Covid-19 infections last Thursday, officials were forced to confront the previously unthinkable: had the time finally come to dump the city’s “dynamic ... ( read original story ...)
Religious groups call for amnesty for Hong Kongers charged under national security law
A coalition of Christians and Catholics on Monday called on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to drop charges against media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other political activists jailed or in custody under a ... ( read original story ...)
BREAKING: Hong Kong top official quits after attending birthday party suspected of Covid-19 rule violation
Hong Kong Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui has resigned after he attended a birthday party for a top delegate to China’s top legislature which was ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong home affairs chief Caspar Tsui resigns
Hong Kong's Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui, who recently attended the birthday party of a delegate to China's legislature, where two of the nearly 200 guests tested positive for COVID-19, ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s foreign judges can hear national security cases, says city’s chief justice
Overseas judges sitting in Hong Kong’s top court are not barred by their nationality from hearing controversial cases about Chinese national security, according to the city’s chief justice Andrew ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Says Covid Zero Critics Won’t Be Locked Up in Prison
Hong Kong denied that criticism of the city’s strict policy to push for zero Covid-19 cases is illegal under a sweeping national security law that has silenced dissent in the former British colony. ( read original story ...)
Commenting on Hong Kong’s Covid strategy will not violate national security law, says gov’t
Hong Kong’s government has said that discussion of the city’s Covid-19 strategy would not violate the national security law. A spokesperson said in a press release on Sunday that “making general ... ( read original story ...)