Hong Kong's resilience as an international financial center is underpinned by robust financial infrastructure, sound regulatory system, extensive expertise as well as strong buffers built up over the past years, Yue said.
His attention helped him become skilled quickly, and now he is one of the best snow sculptors in the team.
His neighbor Hu Zhenghong, 58, has 1.2 hectares of apple trees. "In the past, I didn't even know the taste of apples because of the dry weather of the Loess Plateau," she said. "Now I am thinking about how to grow tasty apples and sell them at a good price."
Ho Pak-leung, a top microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong, said the government should further ban non-Hong Kong residents from entering the city for the next month.
Hong Kong's 2020 Legislative Council General Election will be delayed a year, to Sept 5, 2021, in view of the health risks posed by the current severe outbreak of COVID-19, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said on Friday.
His appointment comes a year after the three companies announced the joint venture, saying that they would focus initially on developing?technology solutions to provide their employees and their families “with simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.”
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Hong Kong stocks lost 1,140.82 points, or 3.67 percent, opening at 29,930.23 points Friday.
Hong Kong has been ranked among the world's most business-friendly economies since the World Bank began to release its Doing Business report in 2005. The Doing Business 2017 report ranked Hong Kong fourth for ease of doing business among 190 economies, compared to fifth in the previous report, said Klaus Koch-Saldarriaga, member of the World Bank's Doing Business team.
His testimony, in a question and answer format, began with how he set up 1MDB in 2009 and how the fugitive Malaysian financier Jho Low, said to be at the centre of the scandal, came to be associated with the fund.
Hong Kong, a seaport with few natural lakes or rivers, has relied on mountain streams and rain as its main sources of fresh water. It suffered a long drought from May 1963 to June 1964, when residents were supplied with fresh water only once every four days.