Hong Kong one of Asia’s worst countries for slavery; 29,500 people out of 7 million population trapped in “modern slavery” in one of world’s 10 richest cities
Hong Kong, a city commonly associated with finance and wealth, has one of the highest proportions of people enslaved across Asia, a new report has found. At least 29,500 people out of a population of more than seven million are trapped in modern slavery in one of the 10 richest cities in the world based […]
Hong Kong election: ballot papers outnumbered voter turnout in at least 5 polling stations
Voters line up to cast their ballots. Photo: HKFP/Catherine Lai. Serious discrepancies have been uncovered in results from at least five polling stations for this month’s LegCo election, FactWire can reveal. Using statistical records from political parties and citizens, FactWire compared the voter turnout and the total number of ballot papers in 96 stations, one […]
Nigeria is The World’s Worst Place to Do Business In – World Bank
The World Bank Doing Business Report 2016 says Nigeria remains one of the poorest business destinations in the world, improving marginally by just one step from its ranking last year. Out of 189 countries surveyed, Nigeria moved from 170th position with 43.56 per cent points in 2015 to 169 with 44.69 per cent points. The […]
Zhou Qunfei,The World’s Richest Self-Made Woman
Zhou Qunfei is the founder of Lens Technology and owns a $27 million estate in Hong Kong. Her stake in Lens Technology, which went public this year, is worth $7.2 billion. But long before all this, she worked in a factory and helped her family raise pigs and ducks for food and additional money. Qunfei […]
Bangladeshi migrants: HK is ‘not for humans to live’
Hong Kong, one of the world’s richest and most developed cities known for its flashy billionaires and upper-class lifestyle, transmits an image of prosperity, comfort and convenience. It is the wealth hub of the Chinese world, a city that hosted 3 of the 5 wealthiest men in Asia, but beyond the facade of pristine skyscrapers […]
