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Two men linked to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London found guilty of spying on activists were sentenced to up to 10 years in jail on Thursday. Bill Yuen Chung-biu, 65, an office manager at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO), was sentenced to eight years in prison for assisting a foreign intelligence service at the Old Bailey. Co-defendant Peter Wai Chi-leung, 40, a security firm operator and former part-time UK Border Force officer, received a sentence of 10 years for [...]

More than 90 per cent of mainland Chinese families moving to Hong Kong under the city’s talent visa schemes have cited their children’s education as the primary reason for relocating, according to a survey. The poll published on Thursday by the Beacon Group, one of the city’s largest tutoring and college admissions consultancies, showed that nearly 80 per cent of respondents chose to move at a time when their children were in upper secondary school. The survey was conducted from May to June and [...]

Hong Kong will measure the size of its poor using a new 21-indicator framework, abandoning the previous income-based metric said to have overestimated the number of underprivileged people by ignoring billions of dollars spent on public housing and healthcare. In a 224-page report released on Thursday, the government also raised the concept of “social transfer values” for the first time, referring to how much income a family effectively gains by not having to pay full price for public [...]

Hong Kong has ranked as the second-most globally competitive economy – its best performance in seven years – climbing one spot from last year to place behind Singapore. The ranking, released by the Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD) on Thursday, placed the city ahead of 68 other economies among the 70 surveyed. Hong Kong was surpassed only by Singapore, but ranked ahead of Switzerland and Taiwan. The IMD said Hong Kong’s rise to second place was built on [...]

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong issued the black rainstorm warning twice within a single day, as downpours flooded the New Territories, disrupted flights and forced class suspensions on Thursday. The Observatory downgraded the day’s second black rainstorm warning, the highest of a three-tier system, to red at 8.30pm during an active southerly airstream over coastal Guangdong. The [...]