Recently, Chief Executive Carrie Lam indicated that she intends to set up new bureaus for housing and culture.
At the same time, Beijing’s liaison office in Hong Kong has also urged Hong Kong to expand its international reach on the arts and culture frontier and to promote deeper integration with…
The recent $5000 shopping voucher scheme introduced by the Hong Kong government has thrown the public into a temporary spending spree.
Amidst opposition the Hong Kong government rejected the cash handout plan as was offered in 2020. …
After more than a year, the pandemic has left our economy in ruins. Business closure and redundancy loomed. The latest act from the Hong Kong government to counter the assault of the crisis came in the form of a HK$5,000 cash voucher.
Crisis such as the pandemic often impels us…
Jazmine Boykins is a 20-year-old digital artist. Her online artwork, while receiving positive feedback, did not produce any real income. But Boykins has recently sold the same pieces for profits using non-fungible tokens, also known as NFTs. NFTs enable artists like Boykins to gain from their artwork.
Hong Kong artists…
Widespread unemployment has been roiling our economy since the beginning of the pandemic. Recently Hong Kong Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung revealed that about 35,500 young people are unemployed — a 17-year high. Sadly, there is nothing to indicate that this rate will drop any time soon. As part of relief…
Recently, there has been cheering in Hong Kong as the arrival of multiple vaccines seemingly heralds the beginning of the end of the pandemic. …
On 24th December 2020, many multinational companies based in Britain breathed a sigh of collective relief. After years of diplomatic wrangling, the United Kingdom and the European Union struck a deal on Christmas Eve to extend a grace period to permit the free flow of data between the two regions.
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In her 2020 policy address, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced the start of a new youth employment scheme that encourages companies to recruit local graduates to work in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), a leading hotbed of innovation and technology.
Some critics have argued that the initiative fails…
Each year millions of tourists crane their necks upward to stare at Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, or stand on tiptoe to seek out the all-seeing gaze of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre. From now till February 2021, Hong Kong…
China’s recent 5-year development plan to designate Shenzhen as the engine behind all tech innovation in the Greater Bay Area came as no surprise.
Indeed, China’s digital transformation was well underway long before the pandemic, attributed to its expansive adoption of mobile technologies and artificial intelligence applications. The corollary is…
