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Hong Kong’s subdivided units should be a minimum of 100 square feet – or 9.3 square metres – a surveyors’ group has recommended to a government taskforce studying the city’s long-standing housing issue. In a press conference on Friday, the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) raised a number of suggestions for improving conditions in subdivided units, ranging from living space to fire safety requirements. The net area of subdivided flats should be no smaller than 100 square feet including the kitchen and bathroom, the group said. Around 20,000 to 30,000 currently live in subdivided dwelling...
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Hong Kong’s leader John Lee has dismissed “unwarranted accusations” that the city funded the surveillance of overseas activists wanted by national security police, after a government employee was charged by UK authorities over alleged spying activities. The chief executive on Tuesday also urged Britain to “fairly handle” the case, which involves an employee at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in London. Bill Yuen, one of the defendants in the case, is listed as an office manager at the trade office on the government’s directory. Lee also reassured the public that the trade offic...
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Seventy per cent of Hong Kong’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) say their income has dropped below pre-pandemic levels, despite Covid-19 restrictions being lifted a year ago, a survey has found. The Hong Kong Small and Medium Enterprises Association and Junior Chamber International Hong Kong conducted a survey in April, interviewing 568 SMEs from sectors ranging from food and beverage to retail. Results released on Thursday showed only 4.4 per cent of the respondents had reported growth since early 2023. “Factors such as the rising trend of northbound travel among Hongkongers, international...
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It is “extremely regretful” that Hong Kong has not seen any labour rights marches since 2019, the chairperson of one of the last remaining opposition parties has said as the city marked its fifth Labour Day without protests. Chan Po-ying, leader of the League of Social Democrats (LSD), told HKFP on Thursday that the government tended to side with employers on labour issues and was slow to respond to workers’ demands. She added that the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU), a pro-establishment group and the city’s largest union, was not doing enough on behalf of the city’s low-wage earner...
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Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics is going smoothly, Chief Executive John Lee has said, despite confusion surrounding how the rules are being implemented and poor compliance. Speaking at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, the city’s leader said more people were purchasing reusable alternatives, suggesting that Hongkongers were beginning to change their daily habits. See also: Restaurants slow to adopt eco-friendly alternatives as Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics takes effect “Generally speaking, from what I can see, [the single-use plastics ban] has been smooth and orderly,” he s...
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The Hong Kong government has vowed to launch an investigation into an industrial accident after two men died in a suspected gas leak at a construction site. A 26-year-old worker surnamed Kwok and his colleague surnamed Lee, 34, died on Tuesday after they were hospitalised following a suspected hydrogen sulphide leak at around midnight at Yuen Wo Playground in Sha Tin. According to preliminary investigation by the police, Kwok and Lee had fainted after inhaling hydrogen sulphide at the construction site. They were found inside a four-metre-deep manhole. Two other workers crawled out of the manh...
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Hong Kong has a “bright future” after the enactment of a new national security law, Beijing’s top man on the city’s affairs has said, as he hit back at criticism of the law. Xia Baolong, the director of Beijing’s Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office (HKMAO), on Monday hailed the recent legislation of the new security law as a “historical mission,” as he addressed city officials at the opening ceremony of Hong Kong’s National Security Education Day. Separate to the 2020 Beijing-imposed security law, the homegrown Safeguarding National Security Ordinance targets treason, insurrection, sabotage, ex...
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Hong Kong is to host eight competitions at the 2025 National Games, alongside events in Macau and Guangdong. It is the first time the city has co-hosted the Chinese sporting contest, which will see its 15th edition next year. At its inaugural meeting in Guangzhou on Thursday, the Organising Committee of the 15th National Games revealed that Hong Kong will host rugby sevens, beach volleyball, golf, triathlons, men’s handball and men’s under-22 basketball, as well as track cycling and bowling. Most events will be staged in Guangdong across 13 days from November 9 next year. Macau will host table...
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More than 70 teachers and students have returned to Hong Kong after spending a week in Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou on the government’s first national security education study tour. According to a statement issued Thursday, students were “were particularly moved and inspired by the arduous Long March of the Communist Party of China,” referring to a military retreat by the Red Army during the Chinese Civil War in 1934. The 75 principals, teachers and students from 17 secondary schools set off last Friday to visit Tiananmen Square, the Palace Museum, the Museum of the Communist Party of China ...
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A trial run for Hong Kong’s pay-as-you-throw waste tax will inform the government of how the public understands the new policy, the city’s leader John Lee has said. Lee’s comments came after the Environment and Ecology Bureau announced that a demonstration scheme, involving 14 premises, will be in place from next Monday to preview the implementation of the new tax. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Lee said the government wanted to “test how [people] understand the law and what they anticipate as the challenges as they go through the actual exercise.” “We want to see how people’s beha...
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