German car brands are losing market share in Hong Kong as a weaker yen and a new emissions rule that has squeezed European cars out of a tax incentive scheme since April have made their Japanese...
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11 Mar 2013
Hong Kong dealers are offering discounts and promotions on European cars with "green" approvals in a race to sell them before buyers lose their entitlements to tax waivers of up to HK$75,000 by...
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24 Feb 2013
During my tenure as museum director, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum averaged 35,000 paying visitors a year. This compares favourably with the paid visits to government museums and, indeed, with...
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15 Feb 2013
I refer to the letters relating to roadside air pollution by Nigel Lam ("HK$10b fund will not curb air pollution", February 4) and Don Pittis ("Taxis could switch to new hybrid models", February 4...
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9 Jan 2013
It's always interesting and sometimes surprising to see what drives policy in Hong Kong. Take the story in yesterdays' SCMP about car dealers asking the government for more time to clear their...
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4 Jul 2012
The drivers of Shenzhen's 300 electric taxis say they are finding passengers harder to come by following a deadly blaze in late May that was triggered by a rear-end collision.
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Zooming in on your own apartment is one of the joys of Google Street View. But the prodigious attempt to photograph where we live could be about to extend beyond mere novelty.
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The Hong Kong government is seeking to tighten the standard of electric vehicles imported into the city after an accident sparked a fire in a BYD electric car last month, killing three people in...
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Two of BYD's biggest dealers have stopped paying an advance subsidy of 120,000 yuan (HK$146,000) to buyers of the company's electric cars because they say it has become a burden on their liquidity...
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Experts have questioned whether the mainland's safety tests for electric cars were rigorous enough after an electric taxi burst into flames, killing three, when it was struck from the rear by a...
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Guangdong propaganda authorities have urged local media not to report anything critical about electric cars or BYD Auto after one its e6 taxis burst into flames in a Shenzhen crash, killing its...
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Nissan is hoping once again to become a major supplier of Hong Kong taxis: it aims to compete with mainland carmaker BYD to turn the city's 18,150 liquefied petroleum taxis into electrically-...
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