Reuters Article Rating

Hong Kong hands out cash, cuts duties in budget despite larger deficit

  • Bias Rating

    -6% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -62% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Chan flagged tax rebates in salaries and profits taxes, capped at HK$6,000, lower than the caps set for the previous budget.
49% : The budget shortfalls mean the public coffers would be depleted to HK$762 billion ($97 billion) in 2023/24 -- equivalent to 12 months of government expenditure -- around half the levels three years ago.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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