Paul Chan (2nd L), financial secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, speaks at a press conference on budget for 2024-25 in Hong Kong, south China, Feb. 28, 2024. The HKSAR will take a fiscal consolidation strategy in the new financial year, said Paul ...
Zhang said the central authorities firmly support Chief Executive Carrie Lam in leading the HKSAR government's law-based governance, voicing confidence in Lam's wisdom and ability to handle the current situation in Hong Kong and lead the HKSAR government's administrative team to move forward and ...
She said although the current situation is encouraging, more time is needed for Hong Kong to get out of the difficulties and return to normal. The Employment Support Scheme proposed by the HKSAR government is aimed to provide timely assistance to help employers retain their employees and tide ove...
HONG KONG, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) -- As violent protests entered the third month in Hong Kong, a senior British officer in the Hong Kong police force said the recent and current situation is the most dangerous that he faced in 25 years, and the protesters seem to be well-organized and willi...
Since the Chinese New Year, a 5th wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Hong Kong, and aroused concerns all over China. So far, new cases have fallen since a new high, but with total cases exceeding 1 million, the situation ...
The COVID situation in Hong Kong is indeed serious. The Hong Kong as the government has decided in accordance with the law to postpone election of Chief Executive and concentrate on dealing with the current situation. We have full understanding and support for that. The central government follows...
But long before those reports, there was growing evidence of a deliberate US hand in the worsening of the situation in Hong Kong. US politicians have met with Lee and other Hong Kong opposition leaders, including Jimmy L...
along with even more Hong Kongers. By contrast, in 2022 the number of foreign professionals in Singapore grew by 16%… In 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s return to China, the two cities’GDPper person was remarkably similar ($26,376 in Singapore, $27,330 in Hong Kong). Today Singapor...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader Monday said that the city would lift flight bans on countries including Britain and the U.S., as well as reduce quarantine time for travelers arriving in the city as coronavirus infections in its latest outbreak plat
compounded by the current situation in Beijing, where Deng Xiaoping is now dying and Chinese leaders are engaged in an increasingly open power struggle. Certainly no Chinese leader wants to appear to be too soft in dealing with Patten or overly tolerant of dissent, democracy and Hong Kong’s ...