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🔮 Agents said the port’s 24-hour joint clearance arrangements could give cross-border tourism a major boost, although crowd control measures dampened trade at the checkpoint entrance.
🔮 With immigration procedures for both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen sides integrated within the building, authorities have said clearance time will be cut from 30 minutes to five minutes for travellers on foot, and from 10 minutes to two minutes for vehicle drivers.
🔮 Signs often emerged through changes such as social withdrawal and anxiety, they said, but the harm could be as serious as physical injury.
🔮 Professor Anderson Shum Ho-cheung, who took up the vice presidency in August, also called for more government funding, saying grant applications took time and returns on investment could be slow.
🔮 Mainland Chinese arrivals in first 2 days of ‘golden week’ holiday top 2018 total
Hong Kong recorded 511,311 arrivals, topping the 2018 total of 508,578, as tourism chief Rosanna Law says the city could hit its 53.8m annual target early
Mainland Chinese visitor arrivals in Hong Kong during the first two days of the National Day “golden week” surpassed the pre-pandemic total for the same period in 2018, as the tourism chief expressed confidence that the city would reach its annual target of 53.8 million visitors earlier than expected.
🔮 Hikers urge live updates on free quota spots to fix Po Pin Chau booking confusion
Trial scheme for section of High Island Geo Trail set to undergo first real test amid Mid-Autumn Festival weekend, National Day golden week
A day after the large influx of visitors, the High Island Geo Trail’s Po Pin Chau section continued to draw lines of visitors on Saturday morning – the second day of an extended weekend in mainland China.
🔮 ‘The more, the better’: Hong Kong won’t cap talent scheme passes, labour chief says
Minister addresses concerns about policy’s impact on population, says renewal criteria to ensure arrivals ‘contribute meaningfully’
Hong Kong authorities will not cap the number of admissions under its talent schemes, with the labour minister saying “the more, the better” amid a global race for skilled workers, despite rising concerns over whether the city can absorb the influx.
🔮 Government adviser says Chinese ride-hailing giant plans Tseung Kwan O pilot, with scope to expand to other new development areas if business model proves viable
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing will apply to test autonomous vehicles in a Hong Kong urban area this year, a government adviser has revealed, saying trials should eventually expand to cover more new development areas.
🔮 Watchdog says it has ordered Heal Fertility to comply with law and code of practice to prevent recurrence of similar incidents
A mix-up of embryo biopsy specimens may have been caused by “intentional unlawful conduct” at a private fertility clinic, which breached the code of practice for reproductive technology by lacking sufficient protective measures, a Hong Kong regulator has found.
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