The ninth edition of Hong Kong FinTech Week (HKFW), themed “Illuminating New Pathways in Fintech” will take place from October 28 to November 1, Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) announced today. HKFW 2024 will place a significant emphasis on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), it added. The event is expected to draw…
In the 2022 Policy Address, the Government set a target of reducing by half the pollution loading at stormwater outfalls with serious pollution problems on both sides of Victoria Harbour, in particular at Tsuen Wan, Sham Shui Po, and Kowloon City, by the end of this year. Thanks to the combined efforts of the…
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, in collaboration with the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, completed a drill today for the Pilot Scheme for Direct Cross-boundary Ambulance Transfer in the Greater Bay Area. The Health Bureau of the Hong Kong SAR explained that the drill was aimed at testing the routing of the…
Acting Secretary for Culture, Sports & Tourism Raistlin Lau today extended his congratulations to Hong Kong actor Anson Kong for winning an award during the 29th Busan International Film Festival. Mr Kong won the Rising Star of the Year award at the 6th Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT (Over-The-Top) Awards during the film…
The Government launched the Artificial Intelligence Subsidy Scheme and began accepting applications today. Eligible organisations are welcome to submit applications to Cyberport. A hybrid information session will be held on October 10. To promote the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem in Hong Kong, the 2024-25 Budget announced an allocation of $3…
The Lands Department announced today that it issued three pre-sale consents for residential developments involving 213 units in the third quarter of this year. Such pre-sale consents were issued for three residential developments. Two of the developments are expected to be completed this year. One is located in Tai Po and involves 135…
The Leisure & Cultural Services Department (LCSD) today launched a new one-stop web portal to make it easy and convenient for people to search for performing arts programmes presented or sponsored by the department and venue information. The portal’s user-centric design features a scrolling banner at the top that shows the latest programme highlights.…
Deputy Secretary for Justice Cheung Kwok-kwan said today that Hong Kong people should have every confidence in the city’s legal system given that both serving overseas judges and others who have just left fully recognise the rule of law in the city. Mr Cheung also told reporters this morning that he fully recognises the contributions…
Following the promotion of Ying Ying and Le Le to parenthood with the birth of a pair of panda twins in mid-August, another pair of giant pandas currently named An An and Ke Ke, gifted by the central government, arrived in Hong Kong last Thursday from Sichuan comfortably and safely on our local flagship airline’s…
A rich treasure trove of postal artefacts can be found on the first floor of the Hongkong Post Building in Kowloon Bay. The new Postal Gallery spans approximately 200 sq m, a quarter larger than the previous 160 sq m gallery at the General Post Office in Central. “Unlike the open display of…