The Expats HK desk
Editorial, Expats HK
Expats HK is written and edited in-house. The area guides are the core, and they are organised the way lettings agents group the city rather than by its eighteen administrative districts, because that is the shortlist people actually choose between. Each one leads on rent, commute and space, since those are what the decision turns on and you get two of the three. Visa categories and their criteria are checked against the Immigration Department, employment and helper obligations against the Labour Department, and typhoon and rainstorm signal rules against the Observatory. Rents are given as bands with the date, because they move. Where something has not been verified, the page says so rather than repeating a claim we cannot stand behind.
Editorial standards
- No paid placements. We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so.
- No untested claims. We do not say we have tried something we have not. Prices and plan details supplied by a provider are labelled as indicative rather than presented as our own findings.
- No page for the sake of a keyword. A destination gets a page when there is something specific to say about it. That is why the site is small.
- Corrections are made in public. A factual fix is applied to the page and the update date changes with it.
