... wers, capacity and independent investigative capability necessary to match the scale of events and the standards required of an international police watchdog operating in a city that values freedoms a ...More
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Shenzhen's housing and construction bureau announced on Monday that all residential apartments smaller than 144 square meters in the southern city will be exempted from the luxury home tax. The move i ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
Hong Kong saw more clashes on Wednesday as anti-government protesters paralyzed parts of the city for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-13
... rity, the city's de-facto central bank, introduced virtual banking, allowing both financial and non-financial firms to operate a virtual bank in the territory, with an objective to promote financial i ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-12
... ct in our city's judicial independence in the long run. This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Nov 6 Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting [Chinese version 中文版] – Conta ...More
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... owing the citywide mayhem that began early in the day, Lam said bluntly that demonstrators will never succeed in getting their political demands met by stepping up the violence. "If there's still any ...More
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... top-tier city or not does not really matter so much. As home prices were very high in his home town, Li decided to look elsewhere among the smaller cities. He visited several lower-tier cities, inclu ...More
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Riot police fired tear gas near the City University of Hong Kong on Tuesday morning after people set up road blocks to disrupt traffic in Kowloon Tong. The protesters were responding to calls for a se ...More
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... wards the city where opposition protesters and police set up barricades and armed themselves for a potential showdown. Police said the crowd was marching down from the nearby city of El Alto, even as ...More
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... cross the city so much so that behaving disrespectfully and even violently towards school heads and teaching staff is considered by quite a lot of young people as “trendy”, with school rules being tra ...More
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With the rise of mobile internet technology and food delivery apps, city residents spend less time cooking and eating at home nowadays, compared with previous generations. In fact, many young people c ...More
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... populous city has been designated at “catastrophic fire danger” for Tuesday, when temperatures as high as 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) are forecast to combine with powerful winds for ...More
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... ese-ruled city that show no sign of let-up after more than five months. Pro-democracy protesters vandalized a train station in the central new town of Sha Tin and a restaurant seen as being pro-Beijin ...More
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... ts in the city creating financial and political uncertainty. Alibaba will have an opportunity to show prospective investors its most recent sales figures after Monday’s Singles Day, mainland China’s l ...More
EJ Insight2019-11-08
... cond-tier city shoppers to less developed areas to combat slowing retail sales growth, describing it as a key strategy for the firm this year. Pinduoduo will be also holding its own “Singles’ Day” eve ...More
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... ce as the city grapples with its worst political crisis in decades. The circumstances of how he was injured were unclear but authorities said he was believed to have fallen from the third to the secon ...More
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... es in the city. In particular, shops owned by Maxim's Caterers have been under severe attack in the past two months since Annie Wu Suk-ching, daughter of Maxim's founder James Wu Tak, spoke out agains ...More
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