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HK Chief to Quit Early

The country's stock market became the ninth largest in the world and ranked third in total funds raised in 2004, according to the BOCHK's Monthly Economic Review, as the number of investors in...

Government Defers HK$3 Billion REIT at Last Minute

Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa announced that the government would not move forward with the long-negotiated sales tax implementation planned for the next two and a half years. "Our economy is sti...

IMF: Economy Growing on Strong Domestic Demand

The government is seeking to dispel growing calls for a referendum on democracy as local reports indicated that the Catholic Church is supporting a territory-wide poll. A government spokesman characte...

GDP Revised Upwards after Fastest Expansion in Four Years

Pro-democracy candidates began the process of trying to understand what went wrong when Pro-Beijing politicians increased their directly elected seats from seven to 12 in the legislative elections on ...