Something unexpected happened at the town hall meeting held a week ago to gather public opinion on Hong Kong’s first five-year plan and the coming policy address. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu spoke about the need to upgrade the city’s urban management systems. Our results-oriented, reform-focused chief executive seems to be ready for…
Nominations for Hong Kong’s powerful Election Committee will take place in October, with the vote for 982 seats of the 1,500-member body – which picks the city’s chief executive and some of the legislative candidates – taking place a month later. A government spokesman said Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu had specified November 22 as…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu and his ministers will hold the first district consultation session to gather views on his coming policy address and the city’s inaugural five-year plan in Tuen Mun on Sunday. Only government-chosen residents and district representatives were invited to the exchange at the venue, sources said on Saturday. Lee…
Telling a Hong Kong judge found to have plagiarised submissions in his judgments to retire early is a sufficient penalty, as he has already suffered reputational damage and is losing tens of millions of dollars in forgone salary, allowances and pension payouts, legal experts have said. A spokesman for the judiciary confirmed on Tuesday that…
Hong Kong authorities should revamp their public inquiry hotline to better handle residents’ complaints by learning from Beijing’s model, lawmakers have told the chief executive at the first “rules-free and warm-hearted” closed-door dialogue session. While the current Legislative Council term marks the first since the 1997 handover not to hold any formal question and answer…
Holding a by-election to fill a seat vacated by former lawmaker William Wong Kam-fai after he resigned over a drink-driving arrest is a lower priority than preparing for three important polls over the next 18 months, Hong Kong’s leader has said. Weighing in on the issue for the first time nearly a month after Wong’s…
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is now undertaking its first five-year planning. This is a monumental step as the city has never done this kind of planning before. In fact, for a long time, long-term planning — in an overall and integrated sense — was considered unnecessary and counterproductive by both the government and…
Calls on SMEs to Accelerate Global Expansion and Seize New Cross-border Growth Opportunities HONG KONG, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The GBA Global Business Expansion Summit, fully sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and organized by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), grandly opened in Hong Kong today. This year’s summit focuses on helping small and…
Former Hong Kong lawmaker Andrew Wan Siu-kin has been released from prison after completing his jail term in a landmark subversion case, saying he hopes to turn a new page in his life. Wan, of the now-defunct Democratic Party, left Stanley Prison on Saturday morning in a seven-seater believed to have been arranged by police….
This article was first published on July 3, 2006. Workers more efficient over five days: civil service chief by Ng Kang-chung Civil servants can work more efficiently and serve citizens better by not having to work on Saturdays, the city’s 6.9 million residents have been promised on the eve of implementation of a five-day week….