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Over a third of Hong Kong’s income tax revenue was paid by the top 1.5 per cent of taxpayers, according to the latest government figures, leading legislators to call for the city’s highest earners to pay more. The top taxpayers paid HK$22.8 billion (US ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng lost 0.7 percent to 30,108.64 and the Shanghai Composite in mainland China lost 0.9 percent to 3,089.21. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 dipped 0.1 percent to 5,218.70. Markets in Southeast Asia were lower. Rising interest rates for U.S ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s trade minister has vowed that the city will continue to be a free and open place to do business, though he said this did not mean it would serve the interests of the US, which is inching closer to an all-out trade dispute with China. ( read original story ...)

To solve Hong Kong’s housing shortage, would you prefer tearing down a historical golf course for flats or developing fringes of the country park? Or both? These questions will be put to the public in a five-month consultation that begins on Thursday. ( read original story ...)

One in three Hong Kong pupils identified to have learning difficulties for the first time last school year were around the age of eight or older, the government watchdog’s latest report found, raising concerns that they might have missed the best time to ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong consumers willing to allow banks to share data for Open Banking-based services - but privacy objections must be overcome for wide adoption HONG KONG and BLUE BELL, Pa., April 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- New research from Unisys Corporation (UIS ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's housing prices are among the world's most expensive, with many residents living in increasingly cramped conditions at spiralling costs and small businesses struggling to survive sky-high rents. A proposal to build a commuter town for ... ( read original story ...)

According to Fintech businesses, lawyers, and industry groups, the number of companies launching ICOs in Singapore and Hong Kong “has skyrocketed in recent months,” South China Morning Post reported on Monday. The news outlet then quoted Anson Zeall ... ( read original story ...)

The promise by Hong Kong’s leader to clamp down on the black market for show tickets appears to have done little to deter the city’s ticket touts. As hundreds of fans formed long queues outside various ticket offices on Tuesday morning in the hope of ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd. approved the biggest change to its initial public offering rules in two decades, putting it in a position to battle New York for some of the world’s hottest companies. Technology firms that have shares with different ... ( read original story ...)

A measles outbreak in southern Japan has prompted one Hong Kong travel agent to cancel several trips it had planned to the area. Nearly 70 people in the popular tourist destination of Okinawa have contracted the highly infectious disease, local government ... ( read original story ...)

In Hong Kong, locals rarely play football with immigrants. Not surprising, perhaps, when a third of Chinese Hongkongers don't want to sit next to members of other ethnic groups on public transport, live next door to them, or have their children as ... ( read original story ...)

The US Consulate in Hong Kong has reached out to the city’s taxi drivers to ease tensions with Uber, while the transport minister slammed the US ride-hailing firm for its “big ego”, the Post has learned. There was immediate resistance from industry ... ( read original story ...)

Au Nok-hin is the youngest member of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council, but the 30-year-old is an old hand at working the ground to champion his cause. He cut his teeth as the internal secretary of Chinese University’s student union 10 years ago ... ( read original story ...)