{"id":49466,"date":"2022-10-19T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/19\/hong-kong-launches-fund-attract-foreign-businesses-back"},"modified":"2022-10-19T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T13:05:11","slug":"hong-kong-launches-3-8bn-fund-to-attract-foreign-businesses-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=49466","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong launches $3.8bn fund to attract foreign businesses back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive says territory will \u2018trawl world for talent\u2019 after lockdowns and political unrest cause brain drain<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has unveiled a HK$30bn ($3.8bn) co-investment fund to attract overseas businesses back to the city after an exodus of talent prompted by strict lockdowns and a tumultuous political climate.<\/p>\n<p>A raft of measures to address the brain drain were announced by Hong Kong\u2019s chief executive, John Lee, in his first policy address on Wednesday \u2013 although his plans have largely failed to reassure investors.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/oct\/19\/hong-kong-launches-fund-attract-foreign-businesses-back\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief executive says territory will \u2018trawl world for talent\u2019 after lockdowns and political unrest cause brain drainHong Kong has unveiled a HK$30bn ($3.8bn) co-investment fund to attract overseas businesses back to the city after an exodus of talent pr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,556,558,48,557,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-chinese-economy","category-global-economy","category-hong-kong","category-international-trade","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49467,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466\/revisions\/49467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}