Successful bidders for four elevated mass transit projects in Hong Kong, including proposed infrastructure in Kai Tak, will be granted property development rights in the surrounding areas to help provide long-term funding support. The Executive Council, the city’s key decision-making body, on Friday approved the granting of property development rights at nominal premiums for three…
Successful bidders for four elevated mass transit projects in Hong Kong, including proposed infrastructure in Kai Tak, will be granted property development rights in the surrounding areas to help provide long-term funding support. The Executive Council, the city’s key decision-making body, on Friday approved the granting of property development rights at nominal premiums for three…
The Hong Kong government had “clearly stated” to the organiser of a failed hot-air balloon festival that the chance of approving passengers to ride in the aircraft was “extremely slim” and had recommended that it cancel the attraction and issue refunds ahead of time, the tourism chief has revealed. Making public the details for the…
A mainland Chinese drone manufacturer owned by a carmaking giant has revealed that it is eyeing Hong Kong as a future market for its flagship passenger-carrying flying car, as the city embarks on a new phase of developing its low-altitude economy. Aerofugia, a subsidiary of China’s second-largest carmaker, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, said that Hong…
By the time we moved out of our Hong Kong home and relocated to Canada, it was practically World War III with our neighbours, well two of them anyway. With the rest, we were friendly or actual friends with them. My neighbourly foes were two expatriate families, who hated that we let our dogs use…
Hong Kong authorities have pledged to allocate HK$500 million (US$64.2 million) annually for recurrent expenditure to support carers, including establishing a high-risk family database and installing accident detection systems. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made this pledge on Wednesday while delivering his annual policy address, which included a range of measures to tackle the city’s…
Hong Kong’s senior civil servants will be subject to a new mechanism to hold them accountable for underperformance, with dismissal as the maximum penalty. Announcing the new “Heads of Department Accountability System” in his annual policy address, the chief executive later dismissed concerns that the move might deter senior servants. “If they think like that,…
Hong Kong will launch a trial scheme allowing semi-private schools to apply for expanded enrolment of overseas students in a bid to open the city’s primary and secondary education market. The government will also increase the enrolment ceiling for self-financing non-local students at public universities from 40 to 50 per cent of its local undergraduate…
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has mapped out plans to break the city’s economic bottleneck on several fronts, from the food and pet sectors to the low-altitude and new energy industries and beyond. In his policy address on Wednesday, the chief executive said the latest blueprint served as a road map for the city…
Hong Kong’s senior civil servants will be subject to a new mechanism to hold them accountable for underperformance, with dismissal as the maximum penalty. Announcing the new “Heads of Department Accountability System” in his annual policy address, the chief executive later dismissed concerns that the move might deter senior servants. “If they think like that,…