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The 16th International Chinese New Year Night Parade will be staged on Feb 3 at Tsim Sha Tsui, featuring a total of 36 floats and performing groups from 11 countries and regions, announced the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) on Tuesday (Jan 11). Organized by the HKTB and sponsored ...
The Hong Kong government will support the Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, in its bid for the 2023 Asian Games while the budget for direct cost will be 6 billion HKD (about 0.77 billion USD), the authority said on Tuesday (Dec 14). Tsang Tak-sing, Secretary for Home Affairs ...
China's two special administrative regions (SARs), Hong Kong and Macao, will be more involved in the country's latest five-year development plan, a senior government official said Monday Jan 10). Wang Guangya, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State ...
The University of Hong Kong, a world-class comprehensive research institution, launched its centenary celebrations on Sunday (Jan 9), marking the start of a series of events for the territory's oldest university's 100-year anniversary. In the day, over 4,000 students, staff ...
The head of Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) said Thursday (Feb 10) that he expected the city's current flu season which has sent over 60 people into intensive care units will last a few more weeks. Speaking at a press conference, CHP Controller Thomas Tsang said ...
The government of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) sealed three local premises that were suspected of providing illegal accommodation during Spring Festival holiday, the Cross-departmental Working Team of Macao SAR announced Monday (Feb 7). Five people were taken away ...
All ports in Shenzhen, a south China city neighboring Hong Kong, reported a peak as mainland holidaymakers flocked to Hong Kong on Friday, the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year. More than 180,000 people from China's mainland crossed the ports in Shenzhen for shopping and ...
The International Chinese New Year Night Parade held at Tsim Sha Tsui in Hong Kong on Thursday attracted around 100,000 visitors, lightening the night with a visual feast. With the theme of "World City, World Party," the colorful parade featured 13 illuminated floats accompanied ...
A China Southern Airlines aircraft took off from Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, at 4 p.m. Tuesday for Luxor, Egypt, to bring back about 220 stranded Hong Kong residents. The flight was postponed due to applications for landing permission and approval from the countries ...
Hong Kong's Monetary Authority Chief Executive Norman Chan announced Wednesday (Jan 26) that the city's Exchange Fund investment yielded 79 billion HKD in 2010, with the investment return standing at 3.6 percent. After deducting interest and other expenses, the net investment ...
Civil aviation authorities of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Chinese mainland signed Monday (Jan 24) a cooperation agreement for civil aviation safety, in an effort to share resources, acquire mutual support and achieve cooperative development between the two sides...
Macao billionaire Stanley Ho has no intention of legal action to reverse the transfer of his 31.7 percent stake in Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau SA to his third wife and the five children from his second marriage, according to the Financial Times Thursday (Jan 27). In ...
The 2011 Macao International Environmental Cooperation Forum and Exhibition (MIECF) will be held in Macao from March 31 to April 2, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) said on Sunday (Jan 23). The 2011 MIECF, hosted by the government of the Macao Special ...
Macao's unemployment rate for the period of October to December 2010 decreased by 0.1 percentage point over the previous period to 2.7 percent, the lowest since the Handover of Macao to China in 1999, according to the figures released on Thursday (Jan 25) by the city's Statistics ...
China is making more aggressive steps to make its currency more international. The Securities Daily reported on Tuesday that a wider use of the yuan in foreign trade is being planned and could be announced as soon as April. "All the 11 provinces and cities that are not on the ...
Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG) of Macao has formally launched extreme weather warnings for the elderly through Short Message Service (SMS), the Macao Post Daily reported on Wednesday (Jan 19). The newspaper quoted SMG director Fong Soi Kun as saying that the extreme ...
The Civil Aviation Department of Hong Kong on Thursday (Jan 20) approved All Nippon Airways and Cathay Pacific Airways to increase passenger fuel surcharges by 9 percent to 11 percent for February. After the adjustment, the new maximum levels of fuel surcharges for short-haul ...
A two-month fishing ban will take effect on Friday in south China's Pearl River as part of the country's effort to protect fishery resources, the Ministry of Agriculture said Thursday. The ban, which will be carried out every year in April and May, covers 5,365 kilometers of ...
Hong Kong's seasonally adjusted jobless rate fell to 4 percent in October to December from 4.1 percent in September to November, helped by the sustained economic growth and job gains, the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong government announced on Tuesday (Jan 18). The ...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
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