Calendar of Events
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Mrs Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is elected the fifth-term Chief Executive of the HKSAR with 777 votes out of 1,163 valid votes cast by the Election Committee, defeating the other two candidates, Mr John Tsang Chun-wah and Mr Woo Kwok- hing.
The Chief Executive in Council grants the Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) (KMB) a new 10-year franchise that will start on 1 July.
A temporary working platform at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) construction site collapses, with some workers falling into the sea. Two workers. die and three are injured. A total of 55 summonses are later issued against nine. defendants. The hearing is adjourned pending completion of the Hong Kong Police Force's investigation.
HK Television Entertainment, a domestic free-TV programme service licensee, launches its free English-language channel, ViuTVsix.
The first registration tax of electric private cars is waived up to $97,500 while that for electric commercial vehicles, motorcycles and motor tricycles is waived in full until 31 March 2018.
A one-year pilot scheme gets under way to inspect plumbing works randomly during construction to enhance drinking water safety.
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The Chief Secretary for Administration outlines three focus areas under the 20th anniversary theme 'Together Progress Opportunity': celebrations for all, building on past success to scale new heights and showcasing Hong Kong's strengths through celebrations on the Mainland and overseas.
Youth fencer Mr Cheung Ka-long, 19, becomes Hong Kong's first world junior champion at Plovdiv's World Cadet and Junior Fencing Championships, first held in 1993. Competitors of the junior category must not be older than 20.
The flagfall for urban, New Territories and Lantau taxis rises $2. Incremental charges for the first-tier and second-tier distances after flagfall rise 10 cents and 20 cents respectively.
Snooker player Ms Ng On-yee achieves a hat trick of world titles in a month, comprising the World Women's Snooker Championship in Singapore as well as the World Women's 6-Red Championship and World Women's 10-Red Championship at the Festival of Women's Snooker in Leeds, England. The team of Ms Katrina Wan Ka-kai and Mr Sanderson Lam lifts the 10-Red mixed pairs' title.
An exemption provided for Hong Kong permanent residents under the new residential stamp duty regime is tightened, following an increased number of purchases involving multiple residential properties under a single instrument. A permanent resident who does not own any other residential property in Hong Kong at the time of purchase and buys more than one residential property under a single instrument is no longer exempted from the stamp duty rate of 15 per cent.
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