But Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong also expresses optimism, pointing to city’s edge in bringing in top people despite current manpower shortage.
Government talent programs have yet to bear fruit, as brain drain from once-prestigious jobs persists.
Police said they were still receiving calls from people inside the building asking for help.
A fire at a building in Hong Kong has killed at least five people and left another 11 injured
HONG KONG (AP) — At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong. The fire broke out at a building called New Lucky House in Hong Kong’s Jordan neighborhood. Police said three males and one female were killed. Police also said they were still receiving
Hong Kong authorities are trying to impose new rules that will cut the use of single-use plastic in a wide variety of businesses from Monday, coinciding with Earth Day. #earthday
Hong Kong has passed a legislation to stop the sale and distribution of Styrofoam products and single-use plastic cutlery as a way to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the city.
Among deceased include three males and two females
HONG KONG (AP) — A fire in a large, mostly residential building in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning killed at least five people and left another 27 injured. The blaze in the New Lucky House in the Jordan neighborhood was extinguished later in the morning, but police said people inside the building still were calling []
HONG KONG (AP) — A fire in a large, mostly residential building in Hong Kong on Wednesday morning killed at least five people and left another 27 injured. The blaze in the New Lucky House in the Jordan neighborhood was extinguished later in the morning, but police said people inside the building still were calling
Fire in large Hong Kong residential building kills at least 5 people and injures 27
A Hong Kong court has refused three activists’ applications to challenge their convictions over refusing to comply with a data request from national security police at the city’s top court. Chow Hang-tung, a human rights lawyer and the former vice-chair of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, the group that once organised […]