Budget 2025: As Hong Kong logs another deficit, residents question why civil servants spared from pay cuts

[HKFP] - 03/2/2025

Sitting outside a wet market in Sham Shui Po, a 73-year-old retiree questioned why the government decided to limit the elderly’s transport subsidy, but not cut civil servants’ salaries in their bid to control government spending. “With their coffers in the red, the government should take the (…)



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