Hong Kong to grapple with turbulent market in 2025, finance chief says
[South China Morning Post] - 12/29/2024
Paul Chan also says city has made ‘steady progress’ despite uncertainties, points to improving capital market sentiment.
In Hong Kong newspapers
National security law, minister sackings bookend big year in Hong Kong politics
City continues to deal with consequences of 2019 unrest with a UK spying case, banning of a song and jailing of (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Hong Kong worker killed by falling curtain glass wall at West Kowloon site
Incident classified as industrial accident after 2.5-by-two-metre glass wall struck a 53-year-old man at Sun Hung (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Hong Kong’s taxi industry at a turning point: Can new regulations bring free-wheeling sector back on track?
Quentin Lau knows his job as a taxi driver makes him an object of derision. When he comes across online news (…)
[HKFP] - 29/12/2024
Hong Kong banks may cut rate to record low 5% in 2025, benefiting property and economy
A straw poll of 10 analysts surveyed by the Post expect up to three rate cuts by the Federal Reserve and HKMA (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Hillside fire in northern Hong Kong finally extinguished after 25 hours
Blaze broke out on Saturday afternoon near Tai Tong in Yuen Long.
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Hong Kong’s winter flu season expected to peak mid-January, expert says
Many residents have recently travelled to Japan, mainland China and South Korea, which are experiencing H1N1 (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Hong Kong gears up for expected influx of arrivals ahead of new year
Nearly 260,000 people enter city through 13 checkpoints by 4pm on Sunday.
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Hong Kong unveils Tian Tan ‘Big Buddha’ in 1993 – from the SCMP archive
Hong Kong inaugurated the giant statue on December 29, 1993, although plans were first announced in 1969.
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Woman, 61, dies after falling off steep slope while hiking in Hong Kong
Woman was hiking challenging route in Ma On Shan Country Park when she fell.
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
3 arrested at Hong Kong airport after 30kg of ketamine seized in 2 cases
Three Hong Kong passengers had flown from Frankfurt in Germany and were detained in two separate drug trafficking cases.
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024
Crime in Hong Kong: Post looks back on 2024’s biggest arrests, scams and heists
City witnessed string of incidents that shocked the public, from the emergence of a new narcotic to a HK$200 million (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 29/12/2024