【2018-5-15】 Xinhua News Agency on Monday reported that 24 Hong Kong-based academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering jointly wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping expressing their strong desire and enthusiasm to contribute to the country’s science-technology development. Xi, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of [...]
【2018-5-9】 Stanley Wong Yuen-fai, head of the Task Force on Land Supply appointed by Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, on April 26 told the public Hong Kong’s shortage of land for public housing development is more pressing and agonizing than ever. It is not difficult to see why it is so “pressing”, since home [...]
【2018-5-2】 From April 12 to 19, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority intervened in the foreign-exchange market 13 times as the Hong Kong dollar hit the HK$7.85 per US unit level, buying HK$51.3 billion. This was the first such intervention by the HKMA since establishment of the Weak-side Convertibility Undertaking for HKD at 7.85 in 1998. [...]