Calendar of Events
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for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr James Henry Lau Jr, join a LegCo joint- panel duty visit to the Yangtze River Delta region to see the latest developments of Shanghai and Hangzhou in innovation and technology, economy and finance, culture and conservation, education, and tourism and learn about the progress of the region's integrated development.
The Chief Executive leads a high-level HKSAR delegation comprising senior government officials and members of various sectors of Hong Kong to participate actively in the thematic forums of the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing.
The Communications Authority administratively assigns a total of 1,200 MHz of spectrum in the 26 GHz and 28 GHz bands to three mobile network operators for the provision of fifth-generation (5G) mobile services.
Chan Tong-kai is sentenced to 29 months' imprisonment after pleading guilty to four charges of money laundering that involved dealing with the belongings of his girlfriend, whom he admitted killing in Taiwan during a Hong Kong police interview.
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The statutory minimum wage is uprated from $34.50 to $37.50 per hour.
Fencers Cheung Ka-long, Cheung Siu-lun, Choi Chun-yin and Yeung Chi-ka win Hong Kong's first world cup team medal, a silver in the men's foil, at the FIE World Cup series in St Petersburg, Russia.
The HKMA unveils three sets of measures to support Hong Kong's green finance. development through green and sustainable banking, responsible investment by the Exchange Fund, and the launch of the Centre for Green Finance for capacity building.
The Medical Council of Hong Kong votes in favour of shortening the six-month assessment period for non-locally trained doctors to two to three days if they have worked in the Hong Kong public healthcare system for three years and passed the licensing examination during that time.
Hong Kong confirms its first case of African swine fever in a pig and culls 6,000 pigs at Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse.
The Council of the Hong Kong Laureate Forum launches at Government House the Hong Kong Laureate Forum, which aspires to be a world-class academic exchange event to connect the current and next generations of scientific leaders and to promote understanding of, and interest in, science and technology among the young generation in Hong Kong and around the world. The inaugural forum will be held in November 2021 in Hong Kong.
An outbreak of measles affecting 29 workers at Hong Kong International Airport ends, about two months after the first three cases were identified.
The government announces that the global offering of its inaugural Green Bond, with a five-year tenor, under the Government Green Bond Programme has drawn orders totalling more than four times the issuance size of US$1 billion. Proceeds
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