Calendar of Events
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The 16.5 metre-high yellow 'Rubber Duck, a floating sculpture created by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, arrives at Ocean Terminal/Harbour City in Hong Kong on its world
tour.
Striking dock workers accept a 9.8 per cent pay rise and end a 40-day stoppage at Kwai Tsing container terminal.
The Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Mr Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, signs a bilateral working holiday scheme agreement with the visiting French Foreign Secretary, Mr Laurent Fabius, which will allow 200 participants from each side each year to stay up to 12 months in France or Hong Kong and to take up employment to finance their stay. Hong Kong has established similar schemes with Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.
The Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum in Stanley welcomes its 600,000th visitor since opening just over 10 years ago.
The Court of Final Appeal declares unconstitutional statutory provisions in the Matrimonial Causes Ordinance and the Marriage Ordinance which preclude post- operative transsexuals from marrying in their reassigned sex.
The territory-wide Food Wise Hong Kong Campaign is launched to raise public awareness of the problem of food waste and to encourage the entire community, from individuals and households to commercial and industrial sectors, to reduce food
waste.
The Chief Executive accepts Mr Barry Cheung Chun-yuen's resignation with immediate effect from all public service positions, including the Executive Council and the Urban Renewal Authority, on the grounds that Mr Cheung is under police investigation.
The HKSAR and the Republic of Korea sign an Agreement on Transfer of Sentenced Persons.
The Chief Executive departs for New York for a two-day visit, his first official overseas visit since taking office in July 2012.
More than 710 hectares of land are excised from the Frontier Closed Area (FCA) in the second of three stages which will eventually reduce the FCA from about 2,800 hectares to about 400 hectares at the end of the third stage in 2015, allowing local residents and members of the public to enter the excised area without restriction. The new Kai Tak Cruise Terminal welcomes its first cruise vessel Mariner of the Seas. Whistle-blower Mr Edward Snowden, the subject of a request for provisional arrest to the HKSAR Government by the United States Government, leaves Hong Kong for a third country as a normal passenger through lawful channels.
Former Secretary for Development Mr Mak Chai-kwong is convicted of conspiracy to defraud and using documents with intent to deceive in connection with cross- renting his flat to another civil servant in the 1980s and fraudulently obtaining $700,000 in allowances.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2013 ranks Hong Kong third in terms of global Foreign Direct
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