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Winter is coming to Hong Kong. The Hong Kong dollar breached its 2007 low today, down to as low as 7.8226, just haircuts away from the 7.85 level that would prompt the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to intervene. After China decoupled its loosely pegged yuan…
UK department store Marks & Spencer is planning to open one of its largest stores in Hong Kong early next year in Cheung Kong Property’s Wonderful Worlds of Whampoa centre in Hung Hom. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, California Fitness…
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