Developing Hong Kong into a hub for IPR trading and management is the broad direction for diversifying the city's economy, said a top Hong Kong official in the legislative meeting on Tuesday.
A member of the Exectuive Council of the Hong Kong government said that the "Occupy Central" campaign is a meaningless act.
An independent statutory supervisory body said the Food and Environmental Health Department (FEHD) of the Hong Kong government failed to curb street obstruction and hygienic problems caused by restaurants.
China's currency RMB is not expected to lead to the substitution or marginalization of the Hong Kong dollar, according to a new survey.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung said at the Question and Answer session of the city's Legislative Council (LegCo) that the Central government has improved a lot in anti-graft and rescue work after seismic disasters.
"It is time for us to pause, to rethink the future of our city design and transport planning, and to put pedestrians back on our policy map," a Hong Kong official said in a public forum as experts and professionals call for making the city more "walkable city".
Hong Kong dockers ended their 40-day long strike on Monday, with the acceptance of 9.8 percent pay rise by their employers, as local medias report.
The city was on a live music spree Saturday night as the Gimme 54 Dream Music Festival was held at the Central Waterfront Promenade on Hong Kong Island to mark the annual Youth Day.
A scholar urged the management to take its social responsibilities as the Hong Kong dockworkers' walkout dragging into the fifth week.
Measuring 16.5 x 16.5 x 19.2 meters, the world's largest rubber duck has taken to the waters in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor on May 2.
Dockworkers' strike could negatively affect Hong Kong's reputation as an international shipping center, despite that the strike would not deal a heavy blow to the concerned conglomerate itself, an analyst said Tuesday.
The unionists have long been bombarding the Hong Kong government for not initiating collective bargaining legislation, leaving the labor no bargaining chips in dispute. But it was rarely mentioned that this law was once passed and added into the city's book of ordinances.
The second-hand home sales in Hong Kong are picking up slightly recently after an unusually sluggish transaction volume in March, with property owners axing prices to entice home buyers.
Furious dock workers started off a parade on the May 1 Labor Day to carry on with their fight for higher salaries and better working conditions, after an unfruitful negotiation with the representatives of the capital.
A gift show, the world's largest, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), and printing and packaging fair, open last Saturday (27 April) and continue through 30 April.
China's urbanization is likely to fuel consumer demand and create enormous business opportunities for Hong Kong entrepreneurs, experts said at a forum on Thursday.
With different but irreplaceable advantages, Hong Kong and other off-shore renminbi ( RMB) center can build a "cooperative and supplementary rather than competitive" relationship, experts from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan agreed here on Thursday.
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