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The Government launches a two-month consultation on the Legal, Privacy and Security Framework for Electronic Health Record Sharing to help reduce records duplication and enable more timely treatment and diagnosis of patients.
Over 400 local and foreign academics, professionals and government officials take part in the 'International Conference on Heritage Conservation 2011' to share expertise and experience in heritage conservation and to discuss the challenges of preserving historic buildings in rapidly developing urban areas.
Hong Kong and the Mainland sign Supplement VIII to the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, to enhance economic and trade co-operation and exchanges between the two places.
Hong Kong tops the World Economic Forum's Financial Development Index for the first time, overtaking the US, the UK and Singapore. The Chief Executive officiates at the launching ceremony of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing facilities. The Chief Executive officiates at the opening of the Hong Kong Global Geopark of China.
The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development leads a Hong Kong, China delegation, to the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva.
More than 80 ministers and senior officials from the Mainland and 13 other countries and region in the Asia Pacific attend the Ninth Ministers' Forum on Infrastructure Development in the Asia-Pacific Region in Hong Kong to exchange views and share experiences on sustainable urbanisation.
The Hong Kong Economic, Trade and Cultural Office commences operation in Taiwan to promote the long-term development of closer economic and cultural relations between Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Government announces the proposed establishment of an independent statutory body as an overalt regulatory body of the tourism
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The Hong Kong Police and their Cambodian counterparts sign a Memorandum of Understanding to renew co-operation in the fight against international crime.
The Hong Kong-Taiwan Economic and Cultural Co-operation and Promotion Council and the Taiwan-Hong Kong Economic and Cultural Co-operation Council sign an air services arrangement between Hong Kong and Taiwan, which lifts the limit on the number of airlines to be designated, and increases the passenger and cargo capacities and flight routes for special chartered flights by both sides.
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority submits its development plan to the Town Planning Board which brings the West Kowloon Cultural District to its next stage of development
the statutory planning process.