The Transport Department today launched a bus parade and exhibition in Victoria Park, Causeway Bay, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The event features buses from the past and present and is one of the highlights of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government’s National Day…
The Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Office under the Leisure & Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is staging the “Celebrating National Day – Auspicious Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Greater Bay Area” Exhibition at the Heritage Museum from today to March 31 next year. Admission is free. The exhibition is being hosted to celebrate the 75th…
Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan will depart for Singapore on October 20 to attend Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW). Mr Tse will attend the SIEW Summit on October 21 to speak on “Asia’s Collaborative Journey to a Sustainable Energy Future” and engage in in-depth discussions and exchanges with other participants. During…
Chief Executive John Lee appeared on a radio phone-in programme this morning to take questions from the public about the 2024 Policy Address. In an hour-long session, Mr Lee answered questions on topics ranging from the economy to innovation and technology (I&T), land and housing, and more. Addressing its overall economic situation and…
The Monetary Authority (HKMA), together with the banking sector, introduced multiple measures today to further support, through financing as well as banking products and services, the continuous development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The HKMA said around 20,000 SMEs have benefitted from the nine measures that it launched with the Banking Sector SME…
The Government announced today that from November 1, full-time non-local undergraduate students will be temporarily exempted from the restrictions on working part-time jobs. Since last November, the restrictions on taking up part-time jobs for full-time non-local postgraduate students of locally accredited local programmes have been temporarily exempted. With a No Objection Letter (NOL)…
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 3% for the period between July and September, unchanged from the June-to-August figure, the Census & Statistics Department announced today. The underemployment rate also remained unchanged, at 1.2%. Total employment increased by around 1,700 to 3,710,200, while the labour force remained about the same at 3,830,100.…
Financial Secretary Paul Chan will depart for Peru this evening to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Finance Ministers’ Meeting and other related events in the country’s capital Lima, before heading to New York City in the US. Under the banner “Sustainable + Digital + Resilient = APEC”, this year’s finance ministers’ meeting will…
Financial Secretary Paul Chan today said he is confident that the Government’s adjustment of the maximum loan-to-value ratio for all properties to 70% will be conducive to the healthy and stable development of the Hong Kong property market. Elaborating on the measure, announced in yesterday’s Policy Address, at a press conference today, Mr Chan…
(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.) Deputy Financial Secretary Michael Wong said that it is necessary to rename compliant subdivided units (SDUs) as Basic Housing Units (BHUs) to highlight the compliance. Mr Wong, who heads the Task Force on Tackling the Issue of Subdivided Units, made the…