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Hong Kong edges out Singapore in liveability survey, Osaka and Tokyo among world’s top 10
- Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest research places two Japanese cities near top of the global table
- Hong Kong and Singapore only manage 38th and 40th spots
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Hong Kong has edged out rival Singapore by two places in the latest liveability survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which ranked the Japanese cities of Osaka and Tokyo among the top 10 in the world.
The research firm awarded the Austrian capital of Vienna the top spot for the second consecutive year in its 2019 Global Liveability Survey. Australia’s Melbourne and Sydney followed closely behind at second and third.
The EIU ranked 140 cities based on 30 factors in five categories – stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. Cities were rated as acceptable, tolerable, uncomfortable, undesirable or intolerable. In-house analysts and contributors on the ground both issued assessments.
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Hong Kong, at 38th, outperformed competing Asian financial centre Singapore (40th) for the second year in a row. Both did well in terms of stability, health care, education and infrastructure, but suffered in the culture and environment category, which dragged down their overall rankings.
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The Lion City scored 76.6 out of 100 for culture and environment, while Hong Kong fared slightly better with 83.1. Top scorer Vienna managed 96.3.
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