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Primary school teacher earns around $230 per month on average, insufficient to cover living costs.

As fascinating as the Pandora Papers leak on the tax affairs and property porn of Middle-East monarchs, autocrats and Tony Blair maybe it hardly comes as a surprise.

Invoking ‘merit’ to deny affirmative action has a long history in India. But it is not supported by any empirical evidence.

SINGAPORE - Hong Kong property developer New World Development said on Thursday (Sept 30) it would launch a research project to tackle a chronic housing shortage and sky-high home prices in one of the world's most expensive property markets. The news comes as private home prices in the global financial hub hit a record high in July and as the...

Hong Kong property developer New World Development said on Thursday it would launch a research project to tackle a chronic housing shortage and sky-high home prices in one of the world's most expensive property markets.

The World Bank permanently suspended its Doing Business project earlier this month. This column argues that the suspension puts an end to a very useful data-collection exercise that went astray by focusing on rankings and political publicity. Beyond specific conflicts of interest within the World Bank, the demise of Doing Business reaffirms Goodhart’s Law that when an index

By Clare Jim and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -Solving Hong Kongs shortage of housing and increasing land supply will be key priorities for authorities under the new, patriots only political system imposed by Beijing, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Tuesday. Lams remarks come after Reuters reported last week that Chinese officials have told Hong Kongs powerful tycoons in several private meetings this year that they should pour resources and influence into backing Beijings interests and hel...

China has been under heavy diplomatic pressure to put an end to its cold supply and that would be because that would make it easier for the global emissions targets. agree to stop coal plants are led this year and china, which had been dubbed the last man standing has now followed suit. the pledges been welcomed by environmental leaders, the un secretary general as well as well is the us requirement with john kerry calling it a great contribution. addressing the elephant in the room, the ongoing...

As Beijing seeks to tighten its grip over Hong Kong, it has a new mandate for the city's powerful property tycoons: pour resources and influence into backing Beijing's interests, and help solve a potentially destabilising housing shortage.

香港商报是一份历史悠久、发行海内外的商业财经类大报，1952年新中国成立初期即在香港正式创办，至今已有近61年的风雨历程，是香港历史上最为悠久的中文报章之一，被中央政府定位为中国的国际传媒窗口：对外宣传中国，对内报道国外；以商业财经宣传为主，以政治改革报道为辅!