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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Hong Kong 5-year plan should have Northern Metropolis tax breaks, listing reforms: HKICPA

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) has urged the government to introduce tax incentives to help develop the Northern Metropolis and to improve the stock exchange’s listing regime to further cement the city’s role in international finance. The organisation’s submission for Hong Kong’s first five-year plan asked the government to consider tax incentives for investors who fund start-ups based in the Northern Metropolis, said Stephen Law Cheuk-kin, president of the...

South China Morning Post Business | discovered by South China Morning Post Business | Aug 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

Impact

53

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Commerce minister unhappy with commodity prices, cost of living

Responding to a question about the market situation six months after taking office, Muktadir said energy and electricity prices, lending rates, productivity, transport, and infrastructure all influence commodity prices.

The Business Standard Economy | discovered by The Business Standard Economy | Aug 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

Impact

44

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Kartu Kredit Indonesia Tetapkan Bunga Pinjaman Sesuai Ketentuan

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Bank Indonesia (BI) menjelaskan skema biaya yang berlaku bagi pengguna Kartu Kredit Indonesia (KKI), termasuk biaya transaksi dan bunga. KKI diproses secara domestik melalui Infrastruktur Sistem Pembayaran...

Republika Ekonomi | discovered by Republika Ekonomi | Aug 18, 2026, 11:15 AM

Impact

41

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Ferguson shipyard to cut a quarter of its workforce

The state-owned yard on the Clyde will lose 70 of its 283 staff through a voluntary redundancy process.

BBC Business | discovered by BBC Business | Aug 18, 2026, 3:56 PM

Impact

33

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

German court convicts Ukrainian man over Russian sabotage plot

A German court on Tuesday handed a jail sentence of one year and three months to a Ukrainian man for spying for Russia and helping prepare possible acts of sabotage. The court in Stuttgart acquitted two other Ukrainian men aged 22 and 25 who were on trial for the same plot, which involved posting test packages containing GPS trackers in March last year to Ukraine. The plan was aimed at scoping out possibilities for “disrupting transport and infrastructure” and was ultimately directed by a...

South China Morning Post Business | discovered by South China Morning Post Business | Aug 18, 2026, 3:41 PM

Impact

33

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Taiwan launches first live-fire exercise with first-person view drones

Taiwan’s army has for the first time used first-person view (FPV) drones against armoured vehicles in a live-fire exercise, adopting tactics pioneered during the Ukraine war to strengthen its asymmetric capabilities against the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The exercise on Monday highlighted efforts to broaden strike options beyond traditional firepower such as rocket systems and heavy artillery. The Army Unmanned Systems Training Command brought together six units from the military’s...

South China Morning Post Business | discovered by South China Morning Post Business | Aug 18, 2026, 2:04 PM

Impact

32

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Ukraine vows to respond after Russian strike kills 10 in northeast region

A Russian attack on a village in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine killed 10 people, Kyiv said on Tuesday, vowing to respond. The strike comes amid a surge in civilian deaths in the four-and-a-half-year war. Russian forces “carried out a rocket strike on Pechenihy”, a village around 40km (25 miles) from the Russian border, Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov said on social media. “According to preliminary information, 10 people were killed,” he added, with 17 people wounded. Ukrainian...

South China Morning Post Business | discovered by South China Morning Post Business | Aug 18, 2026, 12:30 PM

Impact

32

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

AI to help planes avoid climate-warming 'sky graffiti'

A new UK trial hopes to reduce the condensation trails from planes, which can trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere.

BBC Business | discovered by BBC Business | Aug 18, 2026, 12:26 PM

Impact

32

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Hong Kong aiming to revamp heat-stress warning system by end of this month

Hong Kong authorities aim to complete a revamp of the city’s heat-stress warning system by the end of this month, the labour minister has said, following criticism that the alert level was not increased during record-breaking temperatures. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han said on Tuesday that changes to the Heat Stress at Work Warning system would require thorough preparatory work at several levels. This would include setting the system’s activation thresholds and determining...

South China Morning Post Business | discovered by South China Morning Post Business | Aug 18, 2026, 8:49 AM

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31

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🇬🇧 British
finance/GB | global

Homeowner feared energy grant scheme was a scam

Councils in Cambridgeshire have asked the government for more money after the success of the scheme.

BBC Business | discovered by BBC Business | Aug 18, 2026, 8:16 AM

Impact

31

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🇨🇳 Chinese
finance/GB | global

Hongkong Post scraps permanent contracts for new staff amid financial strain

Hong Kong’s self-financing postal service provider will stop offering permanent civil service contracts to new employees as part of cost-saving measures amid a worsening financial outlook. The abrupt move by Hongkong Post sparked concerns among civil servants, who worried that the same approach would be applied to other departments in the future. Postmaster General Leonia Tai Shuk-yiu said on Tuesday that new Hongkong Post employees who pass probation in or after September would be offered...

South China Morning Post Business | discovered by South China Morning Post Business | Aug 18, 2026, 4:58 AM

Impact

30