John Tsang Chun-Wah

Lawmakers approve budget, to government's relief

22 May 2013

The city's annual budget was passed in the Legislative Council last night by a safe margin after a month-long filibuster. The long-awaited legislative approval ends the prospect of the government...

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Up to radical lawmakers to solve crisis, says John Tsang

10 May 2013

The budget bill filibuster is set to continue for a 10th day on Monday, after a fruitless meeting between the finance chief and radical lawmakers last night.

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Lawmakers inch ahead on budget amid bargaining

9 May 2013

Proceedings in the Legislative Council were a little faster yesterday, with filibustering lawmakers getting through seven debate sessions - almost double the number they managed over the six...

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Tsang agrees to ask radicals to stop filibustering

8 May 2013

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah will meet four radical pan-democrats on Friday to convince them to stop the filibustering that is blocking the passage of the budget bill, as it edges...

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Selfish car owners should be taught a costly lesson

8 May 2013

We can't ban them, but nothing says we can't hit them hard. So why aren't we doing it? We have a gutless government. Tiny, overcrowded and polluted Hong Kong now has more than 500,000 private cars...

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Finance chief agrees to bid to end Legco logjam

7 May 2013

But the government would not yield to any of the four legislators' demands, which include a universal HK$10,000 cash handout and a consultation for a universal pension scheme, an administration...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Bill delay may force bodies to raid their own reserves

Some government department and publicly funded bodies may have to dip into their own reserves to maintain necessary services next month if the Legislative Council fails to pass the budget bill by...

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Retirees to Guangdong are golden opportunity: John Tsang

Hongkongers have been tipped-off about opportunities in the silver-haired market in Guangdong by Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah. After a visit to Zhongshan, Tsang blogged that cheap...

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From miser to God of Wealth, John Tsang lifts lid a little on public coffers

Two years ago Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah faced the biggest crisis of his 30-year civil service career. The annual budget he presented to the Legislative Council - his fourth as the...

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John Tsang lacks budgetary vision for better education in Hong Kong

For policymakers, the question often arises, should policy dictate budgets or should budgets dictate policy? For natural-born political leaders, the former is axiomatic. For Hong Kong policymakers...

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WHO SAID IT?

Who said it?

The government will have a poverty line. Is the government also going to make a middle-class line?

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FINANCE

Schoolgirl dares to cross the line at budget forum

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah took 20 questions, many of which were about his plan to award scholarships to 20 students every year to study at universities overseas, and the city's...

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