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The Government wants to find out public’s reaction on Government's initiative to offer tax exemptions to offshore funds engaged in futures trading.

Most if not all of the to-be reported FY11 surplus could be viewed as a windfall ready to be saved or spent.

The Chief Executive in Council has approved the government's plan to relax the criteria for assessing the financial eligibility of legal-aid applicants.

The government also plans to amend capital requirements for corporations licensed for Type 10 regulatory activity and connected matters.

The new maximum surcharge will be $165 for short-haul flights and $747 long-haul flights.

Passenger traffic at Hong Kong International Airport grew to 4.3 million in January.

A further upgrade to the Work Incentive Transport Subsidy Scheme has been proposed, said Secretary for Labour & Welfare Matthew Cheung.

Chinese companies possess the means, motivation and opportunities to speed up the hunt for acquisitions in 2011.

The new route will offer low fares to tourists, business travellers and Filipinos working abroad on the important link between the Philippines and China.

The decrease in volume was due to a recruitment slowdown in preparation for budgetary planning and bonus schemes, coinciding with the holiday period.

Hong Kong International Airport also came third in both the Asia-Pacific region and overall categories.

The two companies sealed strategic co-operation framework agreement to continue exchange of innovative ideas with each other.

There were 6,885,300 usual residents and 212,300 mobile residents in the past year.

The prices of total goods exports rose 4.7% while the prices of goods imports went up 6.4%.

Routes to Paris, Jakarta, Surabaya, Penang, Bangkok and Delhi are also enhanced.

The two airlines carried a total of 2,243,788 passengers in January, up 6.8% on the same month in 2010.