{"id":358335,"date":"2026-03-21T20:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358335\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:53:16","slug":"hong-kong-to-issue-weekly-updates-on-fuel-charges-to-counter-price-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358335\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong to issue weekly updates on fuel charges to counter price gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong authorities will issue weekly announcements about the changes in international and local fuel costs from April, following mounting suspicion that businesses are prematurely raising prices because of the United States-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The move announced on Saturday was welcomed by experts, although some said prices were ultimately out of the government\u2019s hands and it should consider temporarily cutting the fuel tax if levels soared.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are currently collecting and organising data. Starting from April 1, we will release some comparison reports showing the trend of discounted prices from each fuel company in Hong Kong and international refined oil prices,\u201d Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan told a radio programme.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe will release this information to the public once a week, allowing residents to monitor oil price changes more accurately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tse said the updates would allow residents to see whether fuel companies were raising prices too fast or acting too slowly to bring them back down again.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s fuel is mainly supplied by mainland China, according to the minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong authorities will issue weekly announcements about the changes in international and local fuel costs from April,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54972,72,113,162373,240,61,60,22471,43,17573,150177,162374,115],"class_list":["post-358335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-brent-crude","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-environment-and-ecology-bureau","tag-hong-kong","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mainland-china","tag-news","tag-scmp","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tse-chin-wan","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}