Cold weather and HKD6,000 (USD772) cash handouts from the government are helping Hong Kong’s retailers sing a happy tune this year as the numbers of shoppers, and their spending, have risen shar…
Cold weather and HKD6,000 (USD772) cash handouts from the government are helping Hong Kong’s retailers sing a happy tune this year as the numbers of shoppers, and their spending, have risen shar…
Chinese officials have warned that the euro-zone debt crisis and sluggish recovery in the US threaten the world’s second-largest economy.
Export growth has fallen from 31 percent in 2010 to an a…
Macau will post a new yearly record in tourist arrivals in 2011. With one month still to go, Macau has already surpassed the previous record, set last year, when the city welcomed 24.97 million visito…
Experian FootFall has released the latest National FootFall Index (week 51, 19 December 2011) detailing the footfall patterns of consumers in Hong Kong over the past six weeks in comparison to th…
Taiwan’s consumer confidence index stood at 77.58 for December, down 2.3 points from November and the lowest since June last year, reported the National Central University on Tuesday. Of the six…
Some 85.5 percent of business leaders feel pessimistic about the economy next year, according a poll released on Tuesday by CommonWealth Magazine surveying the CEOs of Taiwan’s 1,000 biggest ent…
Polaris Research Institute on Wednesday forecasted Taiwan’s economy next year will grow 3.93 percent, becoming the first local think tank to predict a 2012 GDP growth of less than 4 percent.…
Taiwan’s export orders stood at USD36.65 billion in November, a rise of 2.54 percent from the same period last year, the smallest year-on-year growth since October 2009, reported the Ministry of…
Investment banks, economists and analysts have pessimistic forecasts for the Chinese economy in 2012. Economic growth is likely to slip to 7.9 percent in 2012, according to predictions from the i…
Hong Kong’s inflation slowed in November on reduced gains in pork prices and the city’s moderating economic growth.
Consumer prices rose 5.7 percent from a year earlier, the government sai…