... ment bloc may use the same method in the future to push for the controversial “Lantau Tomorrow Vision” project. "Over my dead body," Mo said of the proposal. Under the panel’s meeting procedure, such ...More
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... ohamad in May last year, Najib has been slapped with a series of corruption charges, mostly tied to losses at now-defunct 1MDB. Najib, who founded 1MDB in 2009, faces 42 criminal charges related to hu ...More
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... oments in May and June, the buy signal has become clearly established. A few points should be remembered when investors try to apply the indicator to their trading activities. First of all, it is a me ...More
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... thorities may still try to get the project up and running, the “super infrastructure dream” could end up being abandoned later on if there is a major economic crisis, or if some big enterprises sudden ...More
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... . Lagarde may be more open to this than most. More broadly, the eurozone’s internal architecture remains incomplete, and its external role is inadequate. Its half-baked banking union has not severed t ...More
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... ration in May decided to keep Tubman’s image off the US$20 bill. He previously raised doubts about his knowledge of Douglass by speaking of the former slave in the present tense as “somebody who’s don ...More
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... r Theresa May welcomed Gibraltar’s move. Spain, which challenges British ownership of Gibraltar, said the action was prompted by a US request to Britain and appeared to have taken place in Spanish wat ...More
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... incident may represent the tip of the iceberg of our deep-rooted social conflict. As such, denouncing violence in the strongest terms is definitely not the only thing that a responsible government sh ...More
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... ce action may affect people's emotions and aggravate the situation, the consequences of which may be unpredictable, police said. Poisonous chemicals Police also said they did not take immediate action ...More
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Mainland property companies may be slowing down in buying up Hong Kong land, but rich mainlanders continue to snap up luxury homes in the city. The latest to do so is China Evergrande Group (03333.HK) ...More
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... da, which may sometimes override profit considerations. That sort of thing holds back investors. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on July 3 Translation by Julie Zhu [Chinese ver ...More
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... h gap; it may also imply a more efficient government. For example, the DPI per capita in the United States was US$43,800 last year, or around 30 percent less than the GNI per capita of US$62,800. In C ...More
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... r Theresa May have been complicated by a disagreement with Washington over whether to ban China’s Huawei from 5G telecommunications networks as a security risk. Britain’s National Security Council dis ...More
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... ighting a May 21 decision by Koh in a case brought by the US Federal Trade Commission. Koh ruled that Qualcomm’s patent licensing practices had “strangled competition” and directed the company to ren ...More
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... e Theresa May as British prime minister and his rival Boris Johnson told Reuters on Wednesday that he also backed the people of Hong Kong “every inch of the way”. The comments clearly irked Beijing. C ...More
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... agreement may go some way to solving a long running point of contention between Chinese and Hong Kong regulators, Reuters noted. China has long been reluctant to allow overseas regulators, including t ...More
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... h vendors may store their products in Amazon’s warehouses or ship them directly to customers. Amazon earned about US$11 billion in revenue from services it provided to third-party sellers for the quar ...More
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... y List in May over national security concerns. US chipmakers, which had been seeking a carve-out for exports of less sensitive technology to the world’s top telecoms technology maker, welcomed the new ...More
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... on Monday may now set things on a different course, and it remains to be seen how the whole saga is going to play out. Pro-establishment figures have noted that the political firestorm over the extrad ...More
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... gnty. The mayhem lasted about three hours until police officers came in and dispersed the crowd at midnight. Leung said the entire building was devastated and it would take some time before power supp ...More
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