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- 2017.11.28
Unleashing Competition in the Personalised Point-to-Point Car Transport Service Market – Introducing Legislation to Embrace E-hailing services and Enhance Consumer Welfares
Technological advances have disrupted many a traditional business model globally. The rapid emergence of E-hailing services, riding the wave of a burgeoning “sharing economy,” has triggered major market disruption to the traditional taxi...
- 2017.11.24
Let’s All “Play it Cool – Say NO to Loan Calls”
Sales calls offering unsolicited loan services come at an alarming frequency in our daily life; some of them unscrupulously beguiling and deceitful. But there is actually no lack of the ways and means to resist and repudiate such calls. The current...
- 2017.11.15
Read Car Rental Agreement and Pay Special Attention to Insurance Cover – Take Photos of the Car for Future Verification in Case of Dispute
Car renting by driving enthusiasts travelling to see the world abroad, with the freedom to visit their own favourite sightseeing places, has caught on in recent years, bringing along with it also consumer dissatisfaction with car rental service...
- 2017.11.15
HK-Style Savoury Dishes: Calling on Restaurants to Cook More Healthily to Reduce Sodium & Fat
Hong Kong style savoury dishes are the favorites of many city dwellers habitually eating out, three meals a day. But careless food choices could put them in jeopardy of excessive intake of sodium and fat, both are detrimental to health in the long...
- 2017.11.15
Laundry Detergent Varies in Stain Removal, Whiteness & Colour Maintenance – Improvement Urged on Ingredients Disclosure on Label
Looking for a laundry detergent that can wash your clothes clean and white as new? The Consumer Council has put to test 34 laundry detergents and found a vast variation in their washing performance. Over one-third of the detergents scored only...
- 2017.11.15
Survey on Food Order Platforms Reveals Wide Variation in Price Mark-up of up to 86% and Improvement Urged to Enhance Delivery Service
Aggregate food order platforms have entered the Hong Kong market in recent years offering delivery service, in partnership with restaurants, for a variety of tasty takeaway from humble street food curry fishballs to fancy French cuisine for consumers...
- 2017.11.15
“Rational Consumption x Responsible Borrowing” Video Series - The Sugarcoated Loan Trap - Money Lending Intermediary
Quick and easy loan? Repay just by “min pay”? Watch out! Young consumers, with such an attitude in loan borrowing, may find themselves embroiled in debt one day. In collaboration with the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB), the...
- 2017.11.02
Rational Consumption Advocated for Young Adults: Avoid Falling Prey of Sugarcoated Loan Traps – Consumer Council & FSTB Join Forces in Production of Creative Online Videos
The market is flooded with loan advertising which target young adults, packaging attitude “supremacy of consumption” and “buy now, pay later” as the trendy value and lifestyle. Alongside with the proliferation of online purchase and...