Thanks to our Corporate Member & Silver Sponsor KBC Bank, we can share the following very interesting report with you all: the newest edition of The KBC Economic Perspective – Asian Edition. Some highlights of this edition: Base economic & pandemic developments are in line with earlier scenarios set out; Global Medium-term Inflation outlook remains…
We have received an invitation to attend a webinar conference organized by InvestHK and Mainland related organizations. With the recent conclusion of the RCEP agreement, more areas in the Mainland are becoming interesting and available to invest in. One of these areas: Jiangsu and its cities Nanjing & Suzhou (just next to Shanghai). To familiarize…
As a special member service, we can now offer group bookings to our members if they chose to receive vaccination. Is your company or your team looking to get vaccinated as a group? Or do you as a company want to provide your employees an easy way to get vaccinated in larger batches? We can…
Great news from Luxembourg as it is ranked the second greenest country in the world! According to Yale’s Environmental Performance Index (EPI), which provides a data-driven summary of the state of sustainability of 180 countries based on 32 environmental health indicators, Luxembourg is the second greenest country in the world. Luxembourg has gained 11.6 factors…
Useful information for expats in Hong Kong! The “Hong Kong Welcomes U” portal has recently been updated. It is a one-stop website providing information for people considering a move to Hong Kong to work, invest or study. This portal was launched in 2015 under the Steering Committee on Population Policy as part of the ongoing…
We have a summary of a special report on Hong Kong published by Forbes Asia magazine for you. The past two years may have been the most turbulent in Hong Kong’s history. However, Hong Kong has risen to its recent difficulties in its typically tenacious fashion to put itself at the forefront of the global…
European Union Film Festival (EUFF) 2021 is coming on April 16 – April 30 (organized by the Broadway Cinematheque)! The EUFF will present a selection of 19 European films, which were chosen with the Consulates General to present their countries’ craft and passion for movie-making. For Belgium, the movie Oleg is selected: Oleg, a young Latvian butcher whose unique…
Our friends at The Belgium-Hong Kong Society are organizing a free webinar event to talk about the FinTech industry in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s financial services sector accounts for over 21% of Hong Kong’s GDP. The FinTech Industry (financial technology) has now become a priority of the HKSAR government, with impressive results. Hong Kong as…
After a European Court of Justice (ECJ) judge on a legal case on the Value-added tax (VAT), the practice of VAT in Belgium and Luxembourg are widened. The ECJ judgement confirms that taxable transactions performed by a non-Belgian established head office to its Belgian branch which is part of a Belgian VAT group, or vice…
