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HR professionals to expect 10% salary raise

Startups generate demand for HR jobs as their businesses scale.

HR professionals to expect 10% salary raise

Startups generate demand for HR jobs as their businesses scale.

9 in 10 employees say learning on their own is key to remain competitive

Half of them have taken a curriculum course in the past year.

IT banking professionals to expect 20% pay rise

Programming skills remain highly sought after across industries.

Property prices to rise next year

Media and tech are the big new tenants.

Inflation rate hit 1.5% in October

Higher food prices drove the marginal increase.

Facebook and WhatsApp top Hong Kong's social commerce platforms

Two thirds of e-commerce players use these online channels.

Over 5,000 homes sold from October to November

However, overall home sales dropped 6% MoM.

Price gap between rural and urban properties narrows

Developers have been turning to farmland conversions.

Rent for Grade-A office properties expected to rise 5-8%

However, limited availability remains an issue.

Hong Kong luxury apartment sale smashes Asia price record

Mount Nicholson apartment fetches HK$132,000 per square foot.

Hong Kong slaps HSBC with $51m fine for Lehman-linked products sale

The $51m penalty was the most expensive sanction imposed on a financial firm.

Half of Hong Kong workers have insufficient savings

Hong Kong workers are most vulnerable to income loss resulting from illness or disability.

Hong Kong job market growth remains bullish

The IT sector generated the biggest demand this year.

Hong Kong is China's third property investment destination

Development sites remain the most favoured sector in Q3.

Hong Kong CFOs onshoring services as complaints rise

And half said they’d shut their off-shore location completely if they could find the workers locally.

Unemployment rate largely unchanged at 3% from August to October

The underemployment rate similarly went unchanged at 1.1%.

Hong Kong Smart City Consortium bags Tekes partnership

The two collaborate on smart city projects and potential funding.