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Hong Kong wealth gap worst in five decades | South China Morning Post

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Income inequality in the financial hub of Hong Kong has hit its highest level in almost 50 years as a red-hot property bubble squeezes the city’s most vulnerable and risks further fuelling social tensions, according to a household income report published by Oxfam this month.

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