The US-China trade war and its pressure on the weakening yuan may impair Hong Kong’s private housing demand and market sentiment, even as the city expects a stable supply in the coming decade, a local think tank has warned. Our Hong Kong Foundation, the city’s largest think tank, on Thursday revealed its 10-year forecast for…
Thirteen residents of a low-income senior housing facility in Joliet will host their first fashion and talent show Friday – by invitation only. Since Jan. 24, Trista Brown, 65, of Joliet has brought her Trista-Raye Ultimate Image Model Workshop Agency to Joshua Arms Senior Residences in Joliet. Over the past few months, Brown has taught…
Providing a safer living environment for elderly Hongkongers could cut at least HK$5.67 billion (US$730 million) in annual hospitalisation costs by 2046, the year when over a third of the city’s population is expected to be aged 65 and above, a think tank has said. Our Hong Kong Foundation on Thursday released a policy research…
Last week, after President Donald Trump’s introduction of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, the global and U.S. stock markets took a major hit, as Wall Street slumped and the U.S. dollar dipped. As Trump introduced a blanket 10% tariffs on all imported goods, and additional import taxes placed on 60 other countries, last week saw the…
American homebuilders are bracing for the impact of a budding trade war with China as President Donald Trump threatens to hit Beijing with a 50 percent additional levy on its imported goods, unless it takes back its 34 percent reciprocal tariff. “While the complexity of these reciprocal tariffs makes it hard to estimate the overall…
The prime minister of Ireland, Michael Martin, is the latest European leader to visit United States President Donald Trump during his second term in the White House. But the occasion was a markedly light-hearted one: to hold receptions and events in advance of St Patrick’s Day, a popular Irish holiday held each year on March…
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 11: U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by White House Senior Advisor, … [+] Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (L), speaks alongside a Tesla Model Y on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke out against calls for a boycott of Elon…
Hong Kong will press on with selling residential plots, the development minister has said, despite an earlier warning from a credit-rating agency that oversupply is hurting the property market. Bernadette Linn Hon-ho also said on Saturday that authorities would not give up on creating artificial islands in the waters off Lantau as part of plans…
The Hong Kong government has disputed a report by an American credit rating agency that described the local property market as suffering from oversupply, as officials stressed that the data showed there was strong housing demand. Authorities responded on Thursday after S&P Global Ratings published its report that said the government was not aggressively addressing…
{KXLG – Watertown, SD} On this week’s From the Halls of City Hall our guest is Councilman Mike Danforth. With a council meeting on Monday 3/3/25, there was a lot to discuss. Your browser does not support the audio element. A mid-term review of the Home Rule Charter is in progress. The committee is assessing…