HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong welcomed a new pair of giant pandas gifted by Beijing on Thursday with a lavish ceremony, raising hopes for a boost to the city’s tourism. An An and Ke Ke are the third pair of giant pandas to be sent to the city from mainland China since the former…
Hong Kong has ranked ahead of Singapore in terms of having a larger fresh talent pool across five industries, including the emerging life sciences sector, in a survey of more than 30 economies by an international recruitment agency. The report published on Monday by Hays consistently ranked Hong Kong ahead of Singapore in each sector’s…
The number of non-locally trained doctors working at Hong Kong’s public hospitals will reach 300 by the end of the year, including about 70 under an exchange programme with mainland China and Macau, health authorities have said. The Hospital Authority chairman Henry Fan Hung-ling said on Monday that officials had spoken with their mainland and…
Some Hong Kong seafood suppliers have suffered a 30 per cent drop in business amid fears over a potentially deadly bacterial infection linked to raw freshwater fish, a sector leader has said, after a rise in cases in the past week. Health authorities said they were in contact with officials in mainland China, one of…
Hong Kong customs has arrested three men and confiscated HK$33 million (US$4.2 million) worth of untaxed cigarettes hidden in a secret cargo hold on a tugboat, after intercepting the vessel that arrived from mainland China. The Customs and Excise Department said on Friday they had seized the 7.4 million black-market cigarettes the day before, following…