“I have already got a house under my name that I live in, but I didn’t think of buying a second one for investment until now because of the 15 per cent ad valorem stamp duty,” the 36-year-old permanent resident said.
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How Hong Kong's housing market became among the world’s most unaffordable
How Hong Kong's housing market became among the world’s most unaffordable
Such curbs were originally introduced to cool excess market speculation that took hold in the early 2000s and drove home prices to eye-watering levels. Read More...
Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History is a lavishly illustrated book that revisits the way hip-hop artists have used over-the-top jewellery as a method of self-expression, not only in their lyrics and videos but also in their extremely curated daily get-ups.
Written and curated by Vikki Tobak and published by Taschen, the book is filled with hundreds of striking portraits of legendary artists like Tupac Shakur and Rihanna, all adorned in some major bling. Read More...
What’s red, blue, green, white, yellow and orange, and has frustrated and entertained minds in equal measure for more than four decades?
It’s the Rubik’s Cube. Invented in 1974 by Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik as a teaching tool, it wasn’t until six years later that it took the world by storm when it was sold as a toy.
Millions of the cubes were sold as the toy generated a worldwide interest in puzzles and games. Read More...