Hong Kong solicitor Kennedy Wong Ying-ho told China Daily on Wednesday that the National People's Congress Standing Committee's decision to allow the sixth-term Hong Kong Legislative Council to continue to serve for no less than a year is made out of respect for "one country, two systems" and "Hong Kong's high degree of autonomy".
His comments came after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed in Beijing on Monday that China and Russia would block any attempts to "sabotage" the Iran nuclear agreement.
Hong Kong's integration into the mainland's economic development, especially as part of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area development initiative, will boost its financial service businesses, such as those involving bond and stock financing. "Investors from the mainland will continue to stabilize the HK financial market," Fu said.
Hong Kong's lunchtime demonstrations have been a routine for weeks. Many business districts across the city grind to a halt when hundreds of protesters, many in masks, take to the streets, block roads in show of their political demands. Verbal disputes have often turned to scuffles between protesters and passers-by who hold different political views.
Hong Kong took its name 'fragrant harbor' from the incense trees that grow here. The trees are now almost gone because of human predators. Dara Wang reports on the efforts to save the trees that remain.
Hong Kong's real estate agency Midland Realty says the vacancy rate in the four core shopping districts of Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Causeway Bay and Central will reach 8 to 9 percent this year.
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His efforts to document the fleeting audio memories associated with old Chongqing are a perfect example.
Hong Kong's Secretary for Education Yeung Yun-hung, congratulated the team on their impressive results. "The remarkable results achieved by the Hong Kong team this year demonstrate our students' great potential in physics," he said.
Hong Kong was ranked fifth globally in the latest World Competitiveness Yearbook 2020 published by the Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD), down from second last year.
Ho Iat Seng, the candidate for the fifth-term chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region, presents his main election program in Macau, August 10, 2019. [Photo/IC]