Vendors at Hong Kong’s largest Lunar New Year fair are slashing their prices on flowers and other goods to clear stock, reporting weaker sales on the final day of operations, while some visitors have said they are spending cautiously. Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po visited the 395-stall fair at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay on…
Flower vendors at the Lunar New Year market in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park have reported poorer sales compared with last year despite the higher footfall, but trendy accessories and snake-themed paraphernalia have proved a hit with shoppers. The 395-stall Victoria Park Chinese New Year Market, the city’s largest, was bustling with shoppers on Saturday, with…
Flower vendors at the Lunar New Year market in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park have reported poorer sales compared with last year despite the higher footfall, but trendy accessories and snake-themed paraphernalia have proved a hit with shoppers. The 395-stall Victoria Park Chinese New Year Market, the city’s largest, was bustling with shoppers on Saturday, with…
Hong Kong’s tennis chief said the city has the potential to become a tennis hub for not just the Greater Bay Area but also of Asia. Michael Cheng Ming-git, president of the Hong Kong, China Tennis Association, also hinted that more players would come to Hong Kong to train ahead of, or amid, tournaments around…
The organiser of the Kerry Hong Kong Streetathon 2024 has expressed regret after up to 30 half-marathon participants were believed to have run an extra 9km (5.6 miles) due to a mix-up by volunteers at Sunday’s annual race. Andes Leung Pak-hang, CEO and co-founder of race organiser RunOurCity Foundation, said on Monday that more could…
One of the world’s greatest tennis coaches, Toni Nadal, has issued a personal rallying cry to Coleman Wong Chak-lam, as the Hong Kong prospect weighs up how to build on an up-and-down 2024. Wong will begin his 2025 campaign at the Bank of China Hong Kong Tennis Open, after organisers awarded the local star a…
A domestic worker who was taught how to swim by a charity will join a relay team composed of former Olympians in making a 45km (28 miles) journey in the waters around Hong Kong Island to raise money for the underprivileged to have free swimming lessons. Josephine Tolentino, a 54-year-old from the Philippines who has…
Tennis, anyone? Put your racquet skills to the virtual test at the Tournament Village outside the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open courts at Victoria Park, in Causeway Bay, this weekend. Support dogs up for adoption at a fitness fest for canines and people, with lots of wellness activities. Unwind at a crystal singing bowls session,…
Vendors that will set up shop at Hong Kong’s largest Lunar New Year fair have expressed concerns over profit amid lacklustre consumer spending as 12 stalls failed to earn bids at auction and one insider estimated prices had fallen to their lowest level in 17 years. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department held the three-day…
The teaching of Hong Kong’s rule of law is “inseparable” from cultivating patriotism, the city’s justice minister has said as he pledged to press on with education to instil people’s love for the country. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok stressed on Saturday the importance of integrating education with building patriotism at a seminar marking…