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香港五年规划中的“合纵连横”(Strategic thinking behind Hong Kong’s five year plan)(Chinese)

Rather than relying on traditional direct shipping incentives, Hong Kong is executing a clever indirect strategy: leveraging tax concessions for physical commodity traders to build a thriving trading ecosystem—thereby driving organic demand for high-margin maritime services like ship management, finance, insurance, and arbitration.

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新加坡总理涨工资有道理吗?不比不知道,一比吓一跳(Is the pay rise for Singapore’s Prime Minister justified?)(Chinese)

Does exorbitant public sector pay actually build better governments? While Prime Minister Lawrence Wong frames the raise as necessary to attract elite private-sector talent to public service, a comparative analysis of global executive compensation against government budgets and population size reveals just how extraordinary Singapore’s pay scale really is — and raises critical questions about talent allocation and fiscal incentives.

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《2026年税务(修订)(与航运有关的活动及实物大宗商品交易的税务宽减)条例草案》到底改了什么?(What’s special about the “Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Tax Concessions for Shipping-related Activities and Physical Commodity Trading) Bill 2026”?)

Under the proposed bill, the SAR Government is introducing targeted tax concessions designed to ease corporate compliance costs, attract multinational physical commodity traders, and drive growth across its high-value maritime services ecosystem.

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