RESTAURANTS performed dismally last year, recording a four per cent fall in the volume of receipts over 1993 to a total of $50.1 billion.
This marks a further decline after a fall...
RESTAURANTS performed dismally last year, recording a four per cent fall in the volume of receipts over 1993 to a total of $50.1 billion.
This marks a further decline after a fall...
RETAILERS blame static growth in sales in the first two months of the year on seasonal factors and consumer caution brought on by uncertainty over the territory's economy.
THE volume of Hong Kong exports grew 10 per cent in 1994, according to official figures.
The volume of re-exports slowed to a growth rate of 14 per cent, while domestic exports...
HONG KONG'S exports increased 11 per cent in volume for the first 10 months of 1994 over the same period in 1993 and re-exports grew 14 per cent, in line with market's expectations.
AUTHORITIES In Guangzhou and Xiamen are encouraging the prosecution of violators of intellectual property rights (IPR), says a foreign lawyer.
EFFORTS to curb soaring property prices would attempt to avoid destabilising the market, Governor Chris Patten said yesterday.
While declining to specify what measures would be...
IMPORTS of capital goods surged 22 per cent in volume in January over the same period last year with notable increases for office machines and electrical machinery.
THE number of visitors to Hong Kong in February rose a marginal 0.7 per cent to 587,467, mainly because Chinese New Year fell in that month.
Chinese New Year traditionally sees a...
THE proposed restriction on ''hawking'' foreign exchange services under the Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading Bill constitutes a ''permissible restriction'', a Legislative Council debate on the...
HAW Par Brothers International has reported a 41 per cent increase in after-tax profits to S$28.7 million (about HK$139.77 million) for the year ended December 31.
Turnover rose...
HOTEL stocks continued to suffer from the decline in the Hang Seng index, fuelled by heavy futures selling, which fell through the 9,000 mark yesterday to 8,667.03.
Good earnings...
HONG KONG'S external trade by sea totalled $1,040 billion in 1993, an increase of 8.7 per cent over 1992, according to figures released by the Census and Statistics Department yesterday.
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