Hong Kong’s new training visa could be available in first quarter of 2027

🔮 In the section on “Develop an East-meets-West Centre for International Cultural Exchange” under the five-year plan, Lee said: “We will strengthen the global reach of the mainstream media”.

🔮 New visa category among spate of new talent-trawling measures unveiled in city leader John Lee’s latest policy address A new visa intended to attract international talent to participate in short-term training programmes in Hong Kong could become available as early as the first quarter of next year, the South China Morning Post has learned.

🔮 Ahead of the enactment of the Stablecoins Ordinance on August 1, 2025, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) warned on its website that “it will be illegal for any person to … actively market the issue of unlicensed [fiat-referenced stablecoins] to the public”.

🔮 Hong Kong aims to raise innovation spending to 3% of GDP by about 2030 Chief Executive John Lee unveils ambitious goal, together with measures to boost frontier technologies, including aerospace research Hong Kong will strive to raise its expenditure on innovation activities to a level equivalent to 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by around 2030, nearly double the current rate, according to the city’s first five-year plan. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu unveiled the ambitious goal, together with measures to boost frontier technologies, including aerospace research, on Wednesday. Among the 22 indicators laid out in the plan, the government aims to raise the ratio of total domestic expenditure on innovation activities to GDP from 1.63 per cent in 2024 to 3 per cent around 2030.

🔮 New visa category among spate of new talent-trawling measures unveiled in city leader John Lee’s latest policy address A new visa intended to attract international talent to participate in short-term training programmes in Hong Kong could become available as early as the first quarter of next year, the South China Morning Post has learned.

🔮 Hong Kong to offer ‘attractive’ merger deals for schools beyond those struggling Source says demand exist even among schools with healthy enrolment, provided authorities offer more resources and support Hong Kong education authorities will offer a “very attractive” proposal and policy support to encourage schools without survival issues to merge amid the shrinking student population, according to official sources.

🔮 New visa category among spate of new talent-trawling measures unveiled in city leader John Lee’s latest policy address A new visa intended to attract international talent to participate in short-term training programmes in Hong Kong could become available as early as the first quarter of next year, the South China Morning Post has learned.

🔮 Tower called Loop Academy One, city leader says, while also revealing official names for the three university towns in Northern Metropolis The first building in the 1,000-hectare (2,472-acre) university town project in the Northern Metropolis will be completed by the end of this year, Hong Kong’s leader has said, revealing that the flagship tower is called Loop Academy One.

🔮 Hong Kong to sweeten school merger deals, offer housing measures to lift births Source tells SCMP that city leader John Lee will reveal additional incentives to boost births and encourage school mergers in policy address Hong Kong authorities are expected to provide more incentives to encourage under-enrolled public schools to merge to survive, while announcing housing measures and tax reductions to tackle the falling birth rate in this week’s policy address, the South China Morning Post has learned.