HONG KONG -- Hong Kong has lost its position as the world's freest economy to Singapore, according to an index compiled by Montreal-based Fraser Institute, which attributed the fall largely to the erosion of impartiality in the Chinese city's legal system and judiciary.
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Singapore replaces Hong Kong as world's freest economy
Bias in Chinese legal system cited as reason for former British colony's fall
Hong Kong was ranked the world's freest economy for over two decades, a position it has now lost to Singapore. © Reuters
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