On 11 April 2025, the Hong Kong government published the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2025 (“Bill”) which proposes to amend the Employment Ordinance (“EO”) to change the definition of “continuous contract”. Current framework Currently, under the EO, “continuous contract” is defined as employment by the same employer for 4 or more consecutive weeks, with at least…
(Taipei) – The Hong Kong police arrested the father of a prominent US-based activist, Anna Kwok, on April 30, 2025, and charged him with a national security crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrest of Kwok Yin-sang was the first such prosecution of a family member of an exiled activist. Hong Kong authorities should immediately drop…
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…
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…
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…
Hong Kong customs has arrested two domestic helpers suspected to have been using their employers’ homes to store illicit cigarettes and seized HK$900,000 (US$115, 400) worth of goods. Customs said its officers spotted and intercepted two women, aged 40 and 48, carrying suspicious nylon bags on Sunday at Choi Yuen Estate in Sheung Shui and…
5th May 2025 – (Hong Kong) The sticky-sweet tang of lychee martinis clings to Lan Kwai Fong’s humid air as a kaleidoscopic crowd pulses through its neon-lit arteries. A Shenzhen influencer films a sha zihao dance challenge outside Dragon-i while German engineers debate quantum computing over Tsingtao beers at Peel Street’s curbside barrels. Somewhere above the fray, 75-year-old Allan Zeman—the…