Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said she would emphasize the city's housing shortage in her annual Policy Address on Wednesday amid concerns about possible disruption by protesters.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor casts her vote at Raimondi College, Hong Kong, on the morning of Nov 24, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
Hong Kong recorded a 31.5 percent increase, propelling the number of ultra wealthy individuals to just over the 10,000 mark in 2017, according to the latest edition of the Wealth-X World Ultra Wealth Report.
Hong Kong enjoys a strategic position within the Belt and Road Initiative because it helps the mainland attract technology and investment from overseas, and serves as a springboard for mainland enterprises to go global, said Norman Chan Tak-lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority.
Hong Kong's employment market has taken a battering, with the jobless rate hitting a two-year high of 3.1 percent for the three-month period from August to October, and the food-and-beverage service sector dealt an even bigger blow with the number of unemployed reaching 6.1 percent — a six-year high.
Hong Kong resident Lau Fo-lam, who lives in Shenzhen, Guangdong, makes plastic flowers with children. YU YANMIN/FOR CHINA DALY
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Hong Kong legal experts, policy advisers and community leaders said concerns about the National Security Law will be allayed once peace comes back to the streets of Hong Kong and the climate of normality is restored.
Honea said it was within the "realm of possibility" that officials would never know the exact death toll from the blaze.
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Historical photos of 12 "comfort women" from several countries are displayed at an exhibition in the California State Building in San Francisco. LIA ZHU / CHINA DAILY