The Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Paul Chan Mo-po, delivered the 2023-24 Budget speech today. This is the first budget he has prepared for the current-term government led by John Lee Ka-chiu, HKSAR Chief Executive. For the 2022-23 financial yea...
Victims of “pig butchering” crypto scams endure not just drained bank accounts but also the emotional wreckage from such personalized deceit. The FBI’s 2023 numbers are grim: $5.6 billion lost to crypto swindles, a staggering 45% jump from last year. It’s a wake-up call for urgent aw...
The UK Government has provided financial support to developing renewable technologies through the Non-fossil Fu el Obligation imposed on the regional electricity companies. Several hundred renewable energy schemes have come forward to be assessed for their environmental suitability by local level regulators...
Government support schemes such as the Help to Buy and First Home Scheme continue to support this cohort of the market, particularly outside Dublin where prices sit within the relevant price caps. Similarly, the Affordable Purchase scheme is also increasingly supportive of the n...
The government says that "once it stops the boats" it will expand current "safe and legal routes" to resettlement in the UK. These are different to asylum claims and are, at present, largely made up of nationality-specific schemes forAfghanistan,UkraineandHong Kong. ...
Testing future policies at the localities before implementing them at the national level is a tool frequently adopted by the Chinese government for verifying whether new national policies can work on a national basis or not. This article examines how loc
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[44] Department of Justice press release, “Justice Department Announces Procurement Collusion Strike Force: a Coordinated National Response to Combat Antitrust Crimes and Related Schemes in GovernmentProcurement, Grant and Program Funding” (Nov. 5, 2019) availablehere. ...
Benefits under the basic medical insurance and serious disease insurance schemes continued to grow, and annual per capita government subsidies for basic medical insurance for rural and non-working urban residents increased from 450 yuan to 610 yuan. A greater number of urgently needed medicines were ...
and Public Opinion Orientation and New Moves of Government in the Mobile Internet Era etc.; fourth, organized emergency drills on reputation risk to enhance the ability to respond to major emergencies; fth, continued with daily public opinion monitoring; sixth, strengthened the initiative by planning...