Low-budget tours to Hong Kong costing as little as 68 yuan (US$9.35) have been a popular option among mainland visitors over the Labour Day “golden week” holiday, sparking concerns about how such minimal spending by tourists in the city would benefit the local economy. A search by the Post on China’s leading online travel booking…
✕ Standing out from the crowd is all about the company you keep. If your immediate neighbors are generic housing towers, attracting attention is easy in Hong Kong. But when you’re located between Central and Admiralty, with I.M. Pei’s twistingly triangulated Bank of China and Paul Rudolph’s “look-at-me!” Lippo Centre right next door, not to…
When Hong Kong culture minister Rosanna Law Shuk-pui revealed at a recent Legislative Council (Legco) panel meeting that she was a licensed scuba diver, many were surprised, not only by her extracurricular qualification, but also the fact she actually dives in Hong Kong. The secretary for culture, sports and tourism was responding to a lawmaker’s…
Respiratory disease patients can now receive integrated Western and Chinese medicine treatments at four Hong Kong public hospitals under a pilot scheme which aims to alleviate symptoms and reduce side effects. The Hospital Authority said the pilot scheme targeting respiratory diseases had started at Haven of Hope Hospital in Tseung Kwan O in April last…
Some mainland Chinese tourists visiting Hong Kong during the Labour Day “golden week” holiday have expressed surprise at improvements in service attitudes but believe the city’s e-payment system could be better. They said waiters and waitresses were no longer rude while serving and spoke better Mandarin after notoriously impolite restaurant staff, shop workers and taxi…
Hong Kong’s eight digital banks have vowed to expand their wealth management businesses in the coming years, after five successful years of drawing customers’ deposits gave them the confidence to venture further into a territory long dominated by bricks-and-mortar banks. All eight of the branchless lenders reported a strong increase in deposits, loans and net…
What is Hong Kong’s answer to Singapore’s Economic Development Board or the mainland’s National Development and Reform Commission? We don’t really have an exact equivalent, perhaps in keeping with our historical stance on the economy, in which the private sector takes the lead and the government role is to facilitate and support. However, in an…
THERE will be no more direct flights from Hong Kong to Saipan, according to a travel agency and charter service provider. The flight from Hong Kong on Sunday, May 4, 2025 would be the last, said KK Chan, chief executive officer of ShenZhen Professional Workers Int’l Travel Service Co. Ltd., one of the two companies…
Lars Junker, a German who has lived in Hong Kong for almost two decades, only learned more about who late tycoon Lee Shau-kee was on Sunday during an exhibition. The product designer, in his 40s, was among more than 11,000 visitors who had registered for or attended the five-day commemorative show held by Henderson Land…
Locals and tourists packed stretches of pavement and stairs in Lan Kwai Fong in Central on Sunday night for one of the biggest parties of the year in Hong Kong, outfits shimmering, drinks in hand, the gossip seemingly echoing a block long. Lan Kwai Fong’s biggest landlord, Allan Zeman, said this weekend’s business was better…