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Calendar of Events

2019

31

April

1

2

4

7-9

16

18

19-20

21-24

The mean temperature and mean maximum and minimum temperatures between January and March are 19.7 degrees, 22.1 degrees and 18.1 degrees respectively, all the highest on record for the same period.

The Voluntary Health Insurance Scheme is implemented fully to regulate indemnity hospital insurance plans offered to individuals by participating insurance companies and to facilitate consumer use of private healthcare services.

The Chief Executive meets the President of Panama, Mr Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez, at Government House. Mr Varela Rodriguez is visiting to officiate at the opening of the Consulate General of Panama in Hong Kong.

The Chief Secretary for Administration and the Mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, Mr Chen Rugui, co-chair the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Cooperation Meeting in Shenzhen.

The Court of Final Appeal dismisses appeals arising from judicial review applications against the Director of Immigration's refusal to grant extensions of permission to remain in Hong Kong to two foreign nationals, Ms Milagros Tecson Comilang and Ms Desiree Rante Luis, to take care of their respective child in Hong Kong. The children, all minors, are Hong Kong permanent residents or have Hong Kong resident status. The court rules that if a person with no right to enter and remain in Hong Kong is able to overcome that position by relying on someone else's rights, it would upset the Basic Law and the purpose of the immigration reservation in the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance.

The Chief Executive visits Tokyo to attend the Symposium on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, organised jointly by the governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and meets the Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Shinzo Abe.

The Mainland announces five relaxation measures to facilitate the entry of Hong Kong films and practitioners into the Mainland market.

The Chief Executive releases a report submitted to the CPG on the HKSAR Government's prohibition of the operation of the Hong Kong National Party in accordance with the law and related circumstances, after the CPG issued a letter to the Chief Executive on 26 February supporting the prohibition and requesting her to submit a report.

Hong Kong lives through its wettest Good Friday, recording 75.8mm of rain at the Hong Kong Observatory. Severe squally thunderstorms rage across the city the next day. Gusts reaching 117km/h buffet King's Park in Ho Man Tin, the strongest apart from tropical cyclones since the automatic weather station in King's Park started operation in 1992. About 9,090 cloud-to-ground lightning strokes are detected, the most for April since the lightning location system was launched in 2005. One hiker is killed by lightning and two people drown after their sampan capsized.

The Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Patrick Nip Tak-kuen; the Secretary for Innovation and Technology, Mr Nicholas W. Yang; and the Secretary

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