Hong Kong is eager to play a bigger role in China’s further reform and opening up and to share its experience in institution-building with emergent economies, Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet- ... ( read original story ...)
HK a key national contributor
In short, we hope to make Hong Kong a fund-raising hub for green projects, and encourage more Belt & Road investors and issuers to participate in the Hong Kong bond market. Closer at home to achieve i... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong still China’s most competitive city, but Greater Bay Area has a long way to go, study shows
Hong Kong is still China’s most competitive city, the latest survey by the United Nations and China’s foremost think tank has found. The study also concluded that China’s “Greater Bay Area” – a projec... ( read original story ...)
Departing Hong Kong anti-graft director rejects suggestions of Beijing interference in ICAC’s operations
The outgoing investigation chief of Hong Kong’s graft-buster has rejected any notion of interference by mainland Chinese authorities in the operations of the Independent Commission Against Corruption ... ( read original story ...)
Why architect of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge’s passenger clearance building looked to nature for inspiration
When visitors marvel at the wavelike architecture of Hong Kong’s passenger clearance building for the world’s longest sea crossing, they might feel a sense of intimacy and connectivity with nature. Th... ( read original story ...)
The erosion of Hong Kong’s free press
In early October, the Hong Kong government refused to renew the work visa of Victor Mallet, a British national and the Financial Times’s Asia news editor. To date, the government has not given any rea... ( read original story ...)
Drone display at Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival cancelled after 40 machines damaged by ‘external parties’ jamming GPS signal
There was no drone performance at the Hong Kong Wine & Dine Festival again on Sunday after some of the machines crashed into Victoria Harbour the previous night. Organisers blamed “GPS interference” f... ( read original story ...)
More people in Hong Kong getting flu jabs ahead of winter peak season as public awareness grows
More people in Hong Kong are getting vaccinated against influenza this year ahead of the winter flu season because of greater public awareness, according to private doctors and health authorities. In ... ( read original story ...)
Australian becomes first foreigner honoured by Hong Kong government for act outside the city, as pan-democrats are snubbed for fourth year running
Being awarded a bravery medal in Hong Kong was not only “a great honour” but “surreal” for Zachary Rolfe, an Australian police office who is the first foreign national commended by the Hong Kong gover... ( read original story ...)
Would you give them money to travel? The rise and fall of Hong Kong’s ‘begpackers’
About a year ago, they seemed to be everywhere in Hong Kong – tourists holding signs on the streets asking for donations to fund their round-the-world trips. Dubbed “begpackers”, they were on footbrid... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong government weighs in on Cathay Pacific data breach, urging airline to cooperate with privacy watchdog in investigation
Authorities in Hong Kong have for the first time weighed in on the massive data breach suffered by Cathay Pacific Airways as they pressed the airline to fully cooperate in an investigation with the ci... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Science and Technology Park gives tech tenants a bonanza with US$893 million worth of measures
Nearly HK$7 billion (US$893 million) worth of fresh measures ranging from rent exemptions to expanded subsidies will be up for grabs for hundreds of current and future tenants at Hong Kong’s IT hub, t... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong residents see world’s longest sea bridge as infrastructure propaganda from China
But many in Hong Kong don't see this bridge as a good thing. They view it as the Chinese government tightening its grip on the former British colony, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy. The offi... ( read original story ...)
China opens longest sea bridge, linking Hong Kong to mainland
China on Tuesday opened the world's longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland, a feat of engineering carrying immense economic and political significance. Chinese President Xi Jinp... ( read original story ...)