While the big advisers' views on the outlook for the market differ significantly, mainly due to mounting uncertainty over the prospects for Hong Kong and the global economy, the consensus towards the ... ( read original story ...)
Mainland medical supplies against COVID-19 arrive in Hong Kong orderly
HONG KONG, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Anti-pandemic medical supplies from the Chinese mainland have arrived in Hong Kong in good order and have been distributed to people in need through various channels. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong records coldest day in May for more than 100 years
Hong Kong recorded its coldest day in May for more than a century on Monday morning, according to the city’s weather forecaster. The Observatory reported a minimum temperature of 16.4 degrees Celsius ... ( read original story ...)
End of the line: Hong Kong railway fanatics prepare to bid farewell to the last of their beloved electric trains
Many railway enthusiasts in Hong Kong have been nervously counting down over the past few months. One of their treasured electric train models, which has served the city for decades, will soon vanish ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Detects COVID Traces In Sewage, Tightens Surveillance To Identify Patients
Amidst spiralling coronavirus cases in China, neighbouring Hong Kong has adopted a unique method to detect infected patients. According to local media reports, city authorities have distributed rapid ... ( read original story ...)
How Hong Kong’s unattached British servicemen found love between the wars: bar girls, brothels and ‘down ’omers’
From its urban beginnings in 1841 up to the 1997 handover, Hong Kong had a permanent British garrison. Until the last “accompanied” postings ended in late 1994, when most residential quarters were ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong should drop flight suspension rule as quarantine measures enough to reduce transmission risks, expert says, while cases fall to three-month low
Professor David Hui cites sufficient hotel facilities and waning wave of local infections City logs 300 Covid-19 infections, its lowest daily caseload since February 4 Hong Kong's flight suspension ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam vows to continue improving labour rights in final months of tenure after ‘hard-earned results’
Carrie Lam says in article that an unnamed unionist praised her for resolving issues relating to workers' rights Lam cites introduction of five-day statutory paternity leave for men and 14-week ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Kitchee march on to AFC Champions League knockout round for first time with dramatic injury-time equaliser
Pakawich Damrongkiattisak/Getty Images Kitchee have secured a landmark first-ever appearance by a Hong Kong club in the AFC Champions League knockout round in dramatic fashion, after a 91st-minute ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong chief executive election 2022: no work on political reform unless all problems in society solved, sole candidate John Lee says
According to Articles 45 and 68 of the Basic Law, the city's mini-constitution, the method for choosing members of the Legislative Council and the chief executive shall be done "in light of the actual ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Athletics Trial 2022: high-jumper Priscilla Cheung Ching-laam battles heavy rain to win gold
High-jumper Priscilla Cheung Ching-laam battled through heavy rain to win gold with a leap of 1.75 metres on the second day of the Hong Kong Athletics Trial 2022. And the 20-year-old hopes to ... ( read original story ...)
Making everyone deal with a Hong Kong leader under US sanctions may well be part of Beijing’s game plan in picking John Lee
The takeaway here is that the change of Hong Kong's leadership cannot be subject to direct or indirect factors concerning the US Beijing may have also laid down a test for those who have to deal with ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM in Southeast Asia and Europe, Australia rates, Hong Kong election
The Russia-Ukraine war is expected to be a major topic at all of the meetings. On Sunday, Hong Kong will hold its chief executive election, in which only one candidate has been nominated. ( read original story ...)
Retailing in Hong Kong to fuse the best of online and offline models as pandemic restrictions ease, industry observers say
Hong Kong’s e-commerce market, which is set to receive a boost from the government’s consumption voucher scheme, is expected to grow some 13 per cent this year even after pandemic restrictions ease as ... ( read original story ...)