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The company will implement an upgrading plan of over $650 million to improve. facilities.

Hong Kong is placed seventh in the WEF's Global Competitiveness Report 2018.

Ms Sarah Lee picks up a gold and a bronze in the women's sprint and keirin respectively in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, during the first of the six-leg 2018- 19 UCI Track World Cup series, which will wrap up in Hong Kong in January 2019. The President opens the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, at 55km the world's longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing, on an artificial island in Zhuhai Port. Various types of cross-boundary transport are put in place, including shuttle buses, coaches, hire cars, private cars and goods vehicles.

The first interim report of the Expert Adviser Team on the Shatin to Central Link project is released, following the appointment of three senior retired government officers in the areas of engineering and buildings to the team on 15 August. Based on the team's recommendations, the MTR Corporation agrees to formulate a holistic strategy to assess the built structures in the Hung Hom Station extension, including opening up the structures to carry out physical checks instead of relying solely on load tests.

LegCo passes the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2018 to increase paternity leave entitlement from three days to five.

The government is highly concerned about the leakage of 9.4 million Cathay Pacific Airways customers' personal details. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data and the police's Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau each. opens an investigation.

A probationary constable of the Northern Territory Police in Australia, Mr Zachary Brian Rolfe, becomes the first foreigner to be recognised under the HKSAR Honours and Awards system for an act of gallantry outside the city. He is awarded a Medal for Bravery (Bronze) for overcoming treacherous conditions and enduring extreme risk and danger on his own on 27 December 2016 to search for and rescue a Hong Kong woman who had been washed away in heavy flooding.

Ms Ng On-yee defeats compatriot Ms Katrina Wan Ka-kai at the Australian Women's Open in Sydney, the first all-Hong-Kong final on the World Women's Snooker Tour since 2012.

The Chief Executive visits Japan to officiate at activities of the Hong Kong Week. Hong Kong and Japan issue a joint statement expressing the aspirations of both parties to deepen and broaden cooperation.

In a first for Hong Kong, a patient undergoes his second heart transplant surgery after a similar operation in 2005.

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The Competition Commission holds its first international conference, Hong Kong Competition Exchange 2018, to share best practices and experiences in competition law and policy.

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