‘Adorable’ Hong Kong panda mascot, 700 sculptures delight cable car visitors
[South China Morning Post] - 12/14/2024
Ngong Ping 360 cable car hosts pop-up, but some visitors say more promotion, merchandise and events needed to play up panda economy.
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Hong Kong’s Maxim’s Group adds meaning to merrymaking with charity donations
Catering and restaurant conglomerate will donate HK$10 to Operation Santa Claus for each BOB craft beer and cup of (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024
Hong Kong temperatures drop to lowest levels so far this winter at 13 degrees Celsius
Forecaster expects weather to remain cold on Sunday before the mercury gradually rises next week.
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024
Hong Kong’s Kai Tak terminal may host arts performances in off-peak season
Newly appointed tourism chief Rosanna Law also expresses optimism city will hit 46 million visitor arrivals in 2024.
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024
Hong Kong’s debt-hit Han Academy hunts for investors to keep school running
With school in a dire financial position, founding supervisor says she has held discussions with more than one investor.
[South China Morning Post] - 13/12/2024
Xi briefed on plans to achieve HK fiscal balance: CE
Chief Executive John Lee on Friday said he detailed to President Xi Jinping strategies to achieve fiscal balance in (…)
[RTHK] - 13/12/2024
Hong Kong to welcome 45 million travellers by year-end
The newly appointed Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism expects Hong Kong to see 45 million visitor arrivals (…)
[RTHK] - 14/12/2024
‘New history’: Assad’s fall brings joy, hope to Syrians in Hong Kong
‘We’ve been living in an actual hell for over 13 years … and what happened now has given [people] hope,’ Abdulwahab (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024
Hong Kong taxi driver, 72, injured after cab flips onto side
Taxi veered onto pavement and struck fence before tipping onto its left side.
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024
Hong Kong filmmaker duo on city’s ‘political colours’ and winning at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards
Growing up in Hong Kong, documentary makers Chan Cheuk-sze and Kathy Wong have come to understand colours as (…)
[HKFP] - 14/12/2024
Nearly half of young Hongkongers say they are ‘failures’, survey finds
Feelings of failure mostly due to academic performance, according to Hong Kong Christian Service, which urges more (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024
Food recycling surges at Hong Kong estates even without waste-charging scheme
Asked if shelved waste-charging scheme will be relaunched, environment chief says tools ‘we use are actually secondary’.
[South China Morning Post] - 14/12/2024