Hong Kong News

Ho Wai-kam, who testified against a Chinese national jailed for plotting to shoot former Hong Kong Democratic Party Chairman Martin Lee , was jailed today for 3 years for possessing a firearm without a license.

Walt Disney Co.a s Hong Kong theme park will draw 60 percent more visitors in 2015 than in its best year so far, government economist Helen Chan told the citya s lawmakers today.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government and the Finnish government signed an agreement for the promotion and protection of investments on Thursday in Helsinki, the HKSAR government said.

In its near-obsession with tidying up the city, the Hong Kong government can impose some silly restrictions.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong said on Tuesday the Walt Disney Co will invest $452 million to expand its Hong Kong theme park, seen as necessary to bolster the park's long-term prospects against a planned rival park in Shanghai.

ON July 1, 1997, Hong Kong reverted back to Chinese rule in a ceremony attended by Chinese, British, and international dignitaries.

The Taipei city government is reviving a proposal to create a dialogue platform with Hong Kong and Shanghai, in an attempt to link the three major financial markets.

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen confirmed on Tuesday that the Executive Council had reached a decision on adjusting civil service pay, local radio reported.

HSBC Bank Co. Ltd. said it issued 1 billion yuan of bonds in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on June 25.

Taipei, June 24 Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin is scheduled to depart for Hong Kong Friday to promote the 21st Summer Deaflympics Taipei 2009, a games organizer said Wednesday.

Hong Kong will focus on developing ''knowledge-based industries'' to fight the economic downturn, Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Monday.

Simon Lee has been appointed Food & Beverage Manager at Prince Hotel in Hong Kong, Hong Kong .

Meetings of the Commission on Strategic Development - the high-powered body set up to advise the chief executive on how to shape Hong Kong's future - have had an average absentee rate of one third.

This is the first case of an HSBCa s staffer confirmed to have the virus. The person worked in the banka s back office, but further details about the patient have yet to be released.

For the first time in 11 months China's holdings of US Treasury bonds fell - to $763.5 billion in April, US government data showed.

Hong Kong s chief executive and top government ministers will take a pay cut of more than 5 percent as part of the territory s belt-tightening during the economic downturn, reports said yesterday.

Over 350 members of nine local uniformed groups attended the Fight IT Crime Ambassador Workshop here Saturday to gain a better knowledge of IT crime to help promote anti-IT crime messages to the public, according to Hong Kong government website.

Chinese provincial governments have decided the best way to combat the fallout of the financial crisis was to keep closer, and seek opportunity of growth as an integrated whole.

Shanghai, which is aspiring to become an international financial center, should not be a threat to existing financial centers like Hong Kong and London, visiting Lord Mayor of City of London Ian Luder said Monday.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang announces on June 11, 2009 that all kindergartens, primary schools, child care centers and special schools in Hong Kong will be closed for 14 days starting Friday to prevent the local transmission of A/H1N1 influenza.