Category: Hong Kong business
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The Standard reports that consumers are not happy with pay-TV companies. Tell me something I don’t know! Pay-television and telecommunication services top the Consumer Council’s complaints list for last year. Out of a total of 35,962 complaints received last year, 11,801 and 2,922 were about telecom and broadcasting services, respectively. While the number of complaints against…
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The credit card business in Hong Kong is incredibly competitive. There’s no need to pay an annual subscription – most cards offer one or more years free, and then you just have to threaten to cancel to get them to waive the annual fee. Apart from the introductory gifts there are a variety of special…
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Both the Standard and the SCMP report on the games played by Hong Kong property developers. From the SCMP (subscription required): Cheung Kong (Holdings) executive director Justin Chiu Kwok-hung says prices for mid-end properties have peaked for the next six months, after the developer slashed prices on some high-floor units in its latest Tseung Kwan…
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