HONG KONG BENEFITS FROM ‘GREAT BRAIN GAIN’ RETURN OF MILLENNIALS TO BOOST BUSINESS TALENT

Hong Kong has long been used to stories about “brain drains” – talented youngsters lured to work abroad having had enough of the city’s overpricing, overcrowding and pollution. Montreal, Melbourne, Michigan, in fact just about anywhere looks better than somewhere like Mong Kok, a gritty section of Kowloon with a population of around 130,000 per square kilometre, where high-rises blot out the sun and there’s little in the way of open space. The prospect of paying in the region of USD2,000 a month in rent for a 25-square-metre studio apartment scarcely ...


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