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Passport stamps have long turned your passport book into a consolidated memento of your travels. But the coveted stamps are becoming more rare.
Hong Kong will lower its stamp duty on stock transfers and reduce bourse market data fees to boost the competitiveness of one of Asia’s largest stock markets.
China is allowing former Hong Kong Archbishop Joseph Zen to leave the country to attend Pope Francis‘s funeral. The cardinal had his passport confiscated after he was arrested in 2022 for ...
Visitors to Hong Kong will no longer have their passports stamped by border control officers from next month, the Immigration Department said on Friday.
Despite cancellation of all "spicy" stamp duty measures, Hong Kong’s Stamp Duty Ordinance has not reverted to its old version. In particular, the rules governing exemption of stamp duty for ...
Hong Kong will slash stamp duties for property buyers to help boost its struggling real estate sector, while reducing levies on stock trades in a bid to kickstart economic activity in the Asian ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hong Kong will offer HK$20,000 (US$2,556) handouts to parents of newborns and ease stamp duties on some ...
Hong Kong in late February removed all additional stamp duties, including those for purchases of second properties, as well as duties on those selling flats within two years of buying them.
The Legislative Council of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Wednesday adopted the Stamp Duty (Amendment) (Stock Transfers) Bill 2023 after a third reading.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested Thursday over an alleged violation of the city’s national security law, just a day after police arrested dozens of former lawmakers and ...