Companies Registry

Rethink on disclosure rules for company directors prudent

3 Apr 2013

In a welcome change, officials have decided to shelve a contentious law restricting public access to personal details of company directors, amid growing concerns that such a provision may have...

3:29AM

Keep data on national company registries open and searchable

7 Mar 2013

As one of the most efficient e-services provided by the Hong Kong government, the Companies Registry regularly receives awards and recognitions. The e-Registry service in particular is popular,...

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Letters to the Editor, February 1, 2013

1 Feb 2013

Legco should back property intervention

The chief executive announced various measures in his policy address to the Legislative Council, aimed at increasing subsidised housing and also at...

3:09AM

Directors' privacy is a direct attack on the public interest

29 Jan 2013

Yesterday's South China Morning Post carried a full page petition signed by 1,768 journalists protesting against the Hong Kong government's plans to restrict public access to information about...

4:51AM

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Top Hong Kong officials listed under false addresses on Companies Registry

29 Jan 2013

A group of government officials and politicians who also serve as company directors appear to have incorrectly declared offices or factories as home addresses on the Companies Registry.

1:00PM

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'Privacy law will breed corruption' warns journalists' union

28 Jan 2013

The Hong Kong Journalists Association has taken out a full-page advertisement in the South China Morning Post and similar ads in other newspapers warning "secrecy breeds corruption" and listing...

5:41AM

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Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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SMEs join chorus of concern over hiding of directors' identity

The changes to the Companies Registry, set to start next year, will also hinder researchers studying possible collusion between officials and industry power brokers, academics say.

5:00AM

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Journalists back petition against privacy law

The Hong Kong Journalists Association says it has received a "record-breaking" response to an industry-wide petition against the proposed change to the Companies Ordinance, with hundreds of...

5:00AM

Rights to privacy may come at a high price

How much privacy should be afforded someone who becomes a director of a listed company that raises money from the public and financial institutions, and how much transparency is in the public...

3:35AM

REGULATION

Banks back public access to directors' addresses and full ID numbers

Banks have come out against proposed changes to Hong Kong company records which would hide the home address and full ID numbers of directors and secretaries from public scrutiny.

4:36AM

PRESS FREEDOM

Journalists slam move to hide directors' data from public

Proposed changes to hide company directors and secretaries' personal details - home addresses and full ID numbers - from the public are an affront to press freedom, the city's journalist groups...

4:32AM

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DATA PRIVACY

Bid to bar data access in company searches

Members of the public, including the media, will be blocked from viewing key personal information of company directors from next year, the government has proposed.

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