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A handful of leading firms from emerging industries are expected to receive preferential policy packages and set up operations in Hong Kong within the “next couple of months”, the city’s finance chief has said, as part of efforts to attract investment. In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po provided an update on the city’s drive to draw international and national brands and strategic enterprises to set up business in Hong Kong through...

China has unveiled an overhaul of its university system, urging institutions to develop distinct roles as demographic change, a tighter job market and industrial upgrading alter the country’s skills needs. The general offices of the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee as well as the State Council, China’s cabinet, jointly issued guidelines for higher education reform, state news agency Xinhua reported on September 20. The document said universities must adapt to “changing trends in the...

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The National Gallery of Victoria’s former head of IT is accused of issuing hundreds of fake invoices over a number of years to steal $8 million from the institution.

Apple code offers a glimpse at three products that could be announced in the coming weeks.

Designed as short-term accommodation, rooming houses are increasingly becoming a “mainstream” living option. But there are concerns about the risks these privately owned services pose.

When Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, announced his housing plan in 1997, the ambition was extraordinary. The government would produce at least 85,000 flats a year across the public and private sectors, and raise the home ownership rate to 70 per cent. The idea was simple. Build more homes, make housing more affordable and allow more families to own a piece of Hong Kong. Then history intervened. The Asian financial crisis struck. Property prices collapsed. The economy weakened....

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After $200 million and 12-year restoration and modernisation project, the AMP at Circular Quay looks remarkably similar from the outside but there are big changes within.

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