Nearly 600,000 Hongkongers left the city on the first day of the three-day Chung Yeung Festival break, an almost 30 per cent increase from the start of the long weekend last year. Immigration statistics showed that 598,677 residents left Hong Kong on Friday, up by 28 per cent from 466,851 recorded on the first day…
Hong Kong can serve as a women’s rights role model for mainland China and overseas countries, the nation’s former foreign vice-minister has said, calling for her peers to step up their contributions to world peace. Fu Ying, China’s former vice-minister of foreign affairs, also said on Wednesday that the world had become increasingly unstable amid…
Hong Kong’s labour minister has urged former staff of the now-defunct Physical gym chain to ensure their interests are protected if they sign contracts with a new investor that has said it has retained about 200 of the workers. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun Yuk-han also said on Saturday his department had received…
Hong Kong’s richest are earning 81.9 times more than its poorest residents, up from 52.7 times last year, the local branch of an international charity has said, in a further widening of the city’s wealth gap. A report released by Oxfam Hong Kong on Wednesday also showed that more than 1.39 million people were living…
This month, OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that it says can reason like a person to solve complex problems. It will continue to improve. When the smartest “person” in the company is a robot, predicting future professional norms and practices becomes like writing science fiction. While many rightfully worry about AI impacts…
This month, OpenAI released a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that it says can reason like a person to solve complex problems. It will continue to improve. When the smartest “person” in the company is a robot, predicting future professional norms and practices becomes like writing science fiction. While many rightfully worry about AI impacts…
Businesspeople and entrepreneurs “are not bystanders” in Hong Kong, the city’s leader has said, vowing to lead different sectors to help boost the economy and improve livelihoods following his meeting with a senior Beijing official last week. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu made the pledge on Tuesday, days after hearing from Xia Baolong, director of…
The newly crowned Miss Hong Kong has expressed her wish to use her status to promote women’s rights, calling for them to be given more support and for society to adopt a broader vision of beauty. Ellyn Ngai Lok-lam, dubbed the “Michele Reis of CityU” by her former classmates at City University, laid out her…