More support to come under CEPA, says Beijing
[RTHK] - 02/19/2025
A Beijing commerce official on Wednesday pledged further support for Hong Kong under the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), the city's free-trade deal with the mainland. Fan Shijie, the director-general of the Commerce Ministry's Department of Taiwan, Hong (…)
In Hong Kong newspapers
Mainland China’s Ne Zha 2 earns HK$5.6 million on first day in Hong Kong
Animated feature draws more than 64,000 viewers as families and patriotic groups help sell out showings.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
Taobao’s first physical store in Hong Kong draws crowds
PapaHome’s 2,322 square metre store in Tsim Sha Tsui boasts more than 10,000 products, allows shoppers to test (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
Beauty in chaos: Japanese hail Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City film exhibition
Exhibition a hit for fans enthralled by aesthetics, martial arts moves and nostalgia of Twilight of the Warriors: (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Budget 2025: Well-off Hong Kong daunted by record deficits
Hong Kong is facing its toughest fiscal test in three decades following a painful run of mammoth deficits, with (…)
[HKFP] - 23/02/2025
Can HK$2 transport subsidy cuts help solve Hong Kong’s budget crisis?
About 2.4 million people may be affected by proposals, as experts warn that solutions will not be simple.
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Cancelled taxi strike in Hong Kong highlights the need for government action
Pattern of threat and backdown circles back to the length of time it is taking to put the point-to-point transport (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
Hong Kong Children Hospital’s suspended ENT department to resume after June
Hospital Authority chief sees ‘light in the tunnel’ over manpower shortages, hopes operations can resume as soon as (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
Hong Kong’s civil service expected to cut contract staff amid deficit
Sources say civil servants will ‘shoulder all the work’ of axed contract staff, as some experts single out roles (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 23/02/2025
An ‘escape’ from the world: As Hong Kong bans ‘space oil’ drug, social workers urge care for teen mental health
Chloe knew she was in the wrong place at the wrong time when four police officers approached her last November in (…)
[HKFP] - 23/02/2025
Find the right tune in Hong Kong to allow for more buskers
Officials must carefully tread the line between too much relaxation of the rules and cracking down too hard.
[South China Morning Post] - 22/02/2025
Cross-border marathon went smoothly; Szeto gets bronze
Officials said the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday morning proceeded smoothly, but a review will still go (…)
[RTHK] - 23/02/2025