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August 31, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
An opinion piece carried widely by Chinese state media has described President Xi Jinping’s regulatory crackdown as a “profound revolution '' and warned that anyone who resisted would face punishment. The article went on to say, “this is a return from...
32 min
August 30, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
US Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, said the central bank could begin to withdraw stimulus this year, but it was in no rush to raise interest rates. However, he gave no timetable for when the tapering of US$120bn a month of bond purchases migh...
32 min
August 27, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
South Korea’s central bank has raised interest rates, making it the first developed economy to do so in the pandemic era. The Bank of Korea raised its main policy rate, for the first time in almost three years, by 25bps to 0.75%, as expected by econom...
32 min
August 26, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from South Korea
Prominent Hong Kong University microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung and his team said yesterday that herd immunity is now impossible to achieve in Hong Kong. Taking into account the use of Sinovac jabs which have a lower efficacy rate, the vaccination rate n...
32 min
August 25, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
Hong Kong Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, has told the private sector to order their staff to get vaccinated, as this will help allow social distancing measures to be relaxed. She said "there's a common objective between the business world and the Hong K...
32 min
August 24, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from Japan
In the latest fallout from the regulatory crackdown by Beijing on big business, China’s securities regulator has halted 42 IPOs in Shanghai and Shenzhen while it investigates a law firm, an investment bank and other parties which gave advice on the de...
32 min
August 23, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from mainland China
China’s National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) delayed an expected move on Friday to apply the country’s anti-sanctions law to Hong Kong. The SAR’s member of the NPCSC, Tam Yiu-chung, said a vote on adding the law to the SAR's Basic Law...
32 min
August 20, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / View from India
Singapore said yesterday that it will lift its quarantine requirement for travellers arriving from Hong Kong, after both governments agreed to stop pursuing a travel bubble between the two sides. From midnight today, Hong Kong visitors will be allowed...
32 min
August 19, 2021 Business and Market Discussion / Latest unemployment figures in Hong Kong - Dr. Law Chi-kwong
President Xi Jinping yesterday urged China’s wealthy to “give back to society” to ensure “common prosperity”. He vowed to “strengthen the regulation and adjustment of high income, protect legal income, reasonably adjust excessive income, and encourage...
32 min
August 18, 2021 Business and Market Discussion
Hong Kong’s sole delegate to the National People's Congress Standing Committee, Tam Yiu-chung, said a resolution on adding China’s anti-sanctions law to Annex III of the Basic Law is expected to pass on Friday. He said he’s not worried that the legisl...
32 min

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