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External interest rates have peaked, but expectations of pace of decrease differ, city’s finance chief says.

Domestic national security legislation is likely to follow common law practice of stating maximum penalties for offences rather than minimum ones as Beijing law does, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam says.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's wants to relabel funds for Haredi educational institutions that do not teach core studies as part of the main Ministry of Education budget.

What should democracies do about parties that use elections and other democratic means to destroy democracy itself? One well-established, but not universally accepted, answer is to ban the party before it comes to power. But what about individual politicians? Americans are heatedly debating that question now that various legal challenges have sought to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for a secon...

The move could prompt a renewed wave of interest in emigration to the United Kingdom.

InvestHK says city could overtake Singapore for family offices, despite a big gap in numbers between the two jurisdictions at present.

The German parliament or Bundestag finalized its 2024 budget on Friday, agreeing to keep the so-called debt brake and borrow around €39 billion ($42.5 billion). After a delay of several weeks, the hard-fought budget was passed and provides for expenditure of €476.8 billion. If borrowing remains at €39 billion, the debt brake would be adhered to again for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Germany's Basic Law aims to limit borrowing but allows...

This petition demands that artistic freedom, as enshrined in Article 5 of the Basic Law of Germany, continues to be preserved and is not restricted by political or other external influences.

The lower house of the German parliament, or Bundestag, finalized its 2024 budget on Friday, agreeing to keep the so-called debt brake and borrow around €39 billion ($42.5 billion). After a delay of several weeks, the hard-fought budget was passed and provides for expenditures of €476.8 billion. If borrowing remains at €39 billion, the debt brake would be adhered to again for the first time since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Germany's Basic Law aims to limi...

Hong Kong's Article 23 legislation 'could boost national security education': Lawmaker Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.