John Tsang Chun-Wah

City Digest, March 4, 2013

4 Mar 2013

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah yesterday defended the budget plan he announced last week, branding some of the criticisms as "dangerous". Tsang said those who opposed short-term relief...

Legislators want Tsang to start spending

4 Mar 2013

Pan-democrats have launched a petition urging Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah to start spending Hong Kong's HK$1.38 trillion in reserves on tackling social problems.

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

4 Mar 2013

This middle-class debate - an offshoot of the government budget unveiled last week - is a good one. Is Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah a member of our middle class? Truth be told, there is...

The budget that should have been

4 Mar 2013

"My proposal is this. With effect from January 1, 2015, every Hong Kong citizen aged 70 or above will be entitled as of right to enjoy a pension paid by a new statutory body to be set up for the...

A Good Week for … , March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

Rejoice! Middle-class Hongkongers are richer than was previously thought. Thanks to Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah, we now know a salary of HK$300,000 is not too much to be considered...

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Financial Secretary John Tsang defends his budget amid criticism

He emphasised the 16 per cent increase in government spending over the next financial year, saying it was rare for a government anywhere to be lifting expenditure.

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So, how well did John Tsang listen?

Tsang cannot be faulted for trying hard to plough back no less than HK$33 billion of the anticipated fiscal surplus of over HK$64 billion to those identified by the government as being most in...

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An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

If two different forecasts made by our statisticians over the space of just two years can barely get within half a million people of each other for the year 2039 and entirely ignore an external...

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Tsang defends budget measures as prudent

Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah said on Saturday he had to be fiscally prudent when developing the economic policies he announced in last Wednesday’s budget.

Tsang told RTHK...

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MY TAKE

Piercing Tsang's 'middle class' delusion

So John Tsang Chun-wah lives a frugal lifestyle, drinks tea and watches French movies. Good for him, but that does not make him middle class.

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Tsang defends management of land supply

The financial secretary has dismissed criticism that the government was too slow in taking full control of Hong Kong’s land supply by scrapping the application list system, which was announced on...