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🔮 I could perhaps put a full stop here, saying this phase is over and what lies ahead is a new beginning,” Chen said at his home in Lok Fu on October 20.
🔮 ExclusiveBordeaux officials hail exclusive 5-year deal for Hong Kong to host Vinexpo
Deputy mayor Fabien Robert says Hong Kong and Bordeaux ‘have a long story in the past and we have a long future’
🔮 Festival of Connoisseurs to run from November 4 to 6, showcasing private jets, fine jewellery and superyachts
Private jets, fine jewellery, watches, superyachts and luxury property will feature in a new Hong Kong exhibition offering business opportunities to “brands, yacht owners and connoisseurs”, according to the organiser.
🔮 Professor Amos Tai Pui-kuen, of the earth and environmental sciences department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, explained on Wednesday that El Nino had altered typhoon paths and weakened the northeasterly winds that typically reach the city in autumn.
“A ‘super’ El Nino means that courses of typhoons would move more northerly … if and when typhoons do hit Hong Kong, because of the high sea level temperatures, there will be more heat and steam evaporating, which contributes to a stronger typhoon, too,” he said.
🔮 Why foreign companies are still betting on Hong Kong’s culinary reputation
Teaming up with city partners, Seoul-based Biofx will grow hydroponic ginseng while Okaman Honpo will bring Japanese confectionery to local customers
Despite a downturn in Hong Kong’s food and beverage sector, foreign enterprises are still betting on the city as a fine-dining destination, with a South Korean hydroponic ginseng grower and a 123-year-old Japanese confectioner choosing it for their first overseas ventures.
🔮 How Hong Kong plans to measure the value of a play, ballet or symphony
Newer groups could get more access to public funds under proposed changes, but established companies urge realistic targets and a long-term view
Established performing arts groups in Hong Kong should reduce their reliance on public subsidies to make room for emerging companies, industry experts have said, after the city leader announced in his latest policy address that the government would revamp its current funding model in favour of a non-permanent system based on merit and commercial returns.
🔮 Security chief Chris Tang expects daily trips to exceed 100,000 over three-day Chung Yeung holiday, with extra staff deployed to keep passengers moving
Hong Kong’s newly revamped Huanggang Port is expected to handle more than 100,000 passenger trips a day over the three-day Chung Yeung Festival holiday, but its departure hall remained quiet on Saturday morning.
Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said the port had operated smoothly since opening on Monday, handling about 80,000 passenger trips a day, with the figure exceeding 92,000 on Friday.
🔮 How Hong Kong’s old businesses are adapting to new times
Change does not follow a single formula and may involve creating new experiences, rebuilding unglamorous systems and adopting AI
Late into the night, Hong Kong football fans in their twenties, thirties and forties sat in Lin Heung Lau restaurant on Wellington Street watching World Cup matches over dim sum rather than pints at a sports bar.
🔮 Group says move to Dancehouse at WestK Performing Arts Centre allows for more than 40 per cent increase in performance weeks annually
The move to the “Dancehouse” at the soon-to-be-finished WestK Performing Arts Centre will follow the ballet company’s departure from its base of 16 years at the government-run Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui.
🔮 Hong Kong to launch free AI courses with tech giants Google, Microsoft for SMEs
Productivity Council collaborating with tech giants to roll out free training, boosting business adoption under HK$50 million initiative
Free courses coordinated by the Hong Kong government will leverage the expertise of tech giants such as Google and Microsoft to help boost the adoption of AI by businesses for content creation, data analysis and workflow efficiency.
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