There is a lot of anxious hand-wringing these days about how to entice diners back to restaurants in Hong Kong and how to encourage mainland Chinese tourists to explore the cosmopolitan range of eateries in our city. Well, one simple idea is just to put more pictures on menus. I know for many chefs and…
Beijing is extending an olive branch to Seoul by embracing the return of South Korean tourists as well as cultural imports like K-pop, as the two neighbours take steps to improve ties. Some 200 Chinese fans turned up to see K-pop girl group IVE at a signing event in Shanghai on Thursday, the same day…
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu wrapped up his recent visit to the Asian Winter Games in Harbin with a local breakfast that “warmed” his heart. He not only met Hong Kong athletes but also visited cultural and tourism spots, including the famed Central Street, to learn how Harbin, also known as China’s Ice…
Hong Kong will attract about 840,000 visitors and HK$3.3 billion (US$424.1 million) worth of spending in the first half of the year thanks to mega-events, the city’s leader has said, while also vowing to tap national development opportunities. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu said on Tuesday that the line-up of mega-events being held in the…
China hoped to increase “political trust” and belt and road cooperation with the Cook Islands, Premier Li Qiang told his visiting counterpart Mark Brown when they met on Friday. Multiple cooperation agreements were signed during the meeting in the northeastern city of Harbin, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported, without offering details. “China is willing to…
Hong Kong’s speed skaters have tended to follow their own paths when it comes to high-profile competitions, which made this month’s Asian Winter Games something of an outlier. When Sidney Chu carried the city’s flag at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, he was the sole exponent of his craft and one…
Hong Kong’s leader has tasked his senior officials with following up on directions given by Beijing’s point man on city affairs, urging his ministers during a meeting to further cross-border cooperation through large-scale development projects. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu held the meeting on Thursday morning, two days after he returned from the Asian Winter…
Beijing is concerned that Hong Kong may need help from mainland Chinese companies in developing large cross-border projects amid a public deficit, analysts have said, after its point man on city affairs met local officials ahead of the annual budget address. Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office (HKMAO), on Sunday…
Three mainland Chinese runners were disqualified for wearing the wrong bibs during Sunday’s Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, with officials warning that they did not rule out taking further action once an investigation had been completed. The decision to strip He Yingbing and Sun Xiaoyang of their first and second places in the half-marathon and…
Three mainland Chinese runners were disqualified for wearing the wrong bibs during Sunday’s Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, with officials warning that they did not rule out taking further action once an investigation had been completed. The decision to strip He Yingbing and Sun Xiaoyang of their first and second places in the half-marathon and…