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Raymond Yeung
In the second of a three-part series on InnoStars Award, organised by Our Hong Kong Foundation to recognise leaders and promote innovation, City Weekend talks to Joe Lee, one of the co-founders of China’s largest ride-hailing platform
Industry body optimistic that sales for the whole year could break record of HK$494 billion set five years ago.
Jump in latest tourist figures year on year to nearly 5 million visitors points to recovering local economy on strength of cash-rich mainlanders.
Travel agent cancels trips to Japanese region where highly infectious disease has spread, but it is business as usual for other tour groups
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Enclosure shuts as Ying Ying and Le Le enter mating season with hopes that the pandas, a species known for sexual apathy, can produce offspring
Buyers would be given seven days to change their mind on long-term contracts, but industry heads claim financial instability would ensue.
Accommodation cited as heaviest burden in city due to robust demand.
Wartime drama had 11 nominations going into city’s equivalent of the Oscars
City’s development chief wants to expand cross-border flows of qualified personnel but industry members say there’s enough work in Hong Kong to keep them busy
Meeting with mainland authority ends with city’s government saying it is satisfied with the design, which can even withstand mega waves that come ‘once in 300 years’.
MTR Corporation chairman put positive spin on incident, saying it was good to find problems so soon after testing had begun
Trade group argues home-sharing service that had 5,000 residential properties in city listed on its website last year is unsafe
An eyewitness said the driver was speeding along South Lantau Road, which cuts through a part of Lantau Island where feral cows roam freely
Lesley Suen, daughter of SML Group founder Simon Suen, changes career course but is at home in an entirely new field she hopes to expand.
Communications Authority launches one-month consultation on whether rules on indirect advertising should be loosened.
Hong Kong’s transport chief says once bill is passed, a ‘contract’ between both governments will provide flexible way to implement arrangement
Chief executive says mechanism has been undermining the benefits of retirement protection for employees.
Carrie Lam last week became the first chief executive to give to a pro-democracy party, leading to criticism of the Democratic Party for taking the money from someone they are supposed to hold to account
Entrepreneur Allan Zeman is among the business titans and captains of industry tasked to help the government develop right policies to groom talent and boost innovation
Cabbies will park at Central or the airport and just ‘hang around’, alliance threatens, adding there is no way it will coexist with the US ride-hailing giant.
Some 14kg of the drug is confiscated in two separate busts, bringing total haul from four raids this month to 70kg – the biggest amount so far this year from a single operation
Mainland cities also fare poorly in survey measuring quality of life for Asian expatriates due to rise in internet censorship and drop in air quality
Government departments providing help on things such as job hunting, welfare, interpretation and integration were asked to regularly review and improve the effectiveness of their work, following findings of a survey
Practice involving pounding effigies with an old shoe is particularly popular this time of the year, as believers and tourists flock to Causeway Bay spot
Latest government report also finds that more than 130,000 elderly people are still working, more than double the amount from 10 years ago
Less than one-third of the rail giant’s HK$55.44 billion in revenue last year came from its local transport operations, while income from its property portfolio in mainland China jumped five times.
Pressure on imports, holidaymakers and foreign domestic workers as local currency hits three-decade low.
A 5.3 hectare site has also been set aside to build a ‘premium logistics warehouse’ for the high-value goods
