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Calendar of Events

2016

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April

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May

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The Chief Executive meets the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Mr Algirdas Butkevičius, at Government House.

The Chief Executive in Council approves applications for the renewal of the analogue sound broadcasting licences of Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting and Metro Broadcast for a period of 12 years from 26 August 2016 to 25 August 2028.

A $10 billion, five-storey Midfield Concourse opens at the airport. It adds 20 more parking stands to the airport and can handle at least 10 million more passengers per

year.

Hong Kong Television Entertainment holds a soft launch of its new Chinese-language free television channel, ViuTV.

Ms Ng On-yee and Ms Katrina Wan win the Ladies Pairs championship at the World Ladies Snooker Championship in the United Kingdom.

Asia Television (ATV) ceases operation of its free TV programme service at 12am upon its licence expiry after 59 years on the air. Radio Television Hong Kong starts. the simulcast of its digital TV programmes on the two analogue television channels. vacated by ATV the next day.

Mr Cheung Ka-long makes history as the first Hong Kong athlete to win a gold in the men's foil individual at the Asian Fencing Championships in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The championships were established in 1989.

The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mrs Carrie Lam, inspects HKSAR-funded reconstruction projects in Sichuan Province and officiates at the opening of the China Giant Panda Garden in the Wolong Nature Reserve. She later officiates at the HKSAR's Post-quake Reconstruction Support Work in Sichuan Completion Ceremony cum Sharing Session on Reconstruction of the Wolong National Nature Reserve on 28 October.

Mr Zhang Dejiang, a member of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), visits Hong Kong. His itinerary includes trips. to the Development Bureau, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Tseung Kwan O Aged Care Complex and two flats in On Tat Estate, a new public rental housing estate in Kwun Tong.

The HKSAR Government organises the inaugural Belt and Road Summit in association with the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, with the state Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Commerce and People's Bank of China as supporting bodies. The NPCSC Chairman delivers a keynote speech to over 2,400 government officials and business leaders.

Hong Kong opens its first self-sustained sludge treatment facility, T-Park, in Tuen Mun. T-Park converts waste to energy via sludge incinerators with a total treatment capacity of up to 2,000 tonnes of sludge per day.

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