With realistic virtual locations, there’s no need to fly actors, crew to different places for film shoots.
Tax commissioner says revenue is likely to rise by 12 per cent in 2024-25, after city scrapped property market curbs this year.
About 800,000 trips made on Wednesday, below 1 million estimate, official data shows.
Spokesman says service exports will be supported by further revival of inbound tourism and government efforts to promote mega-event economy.
Hong Kong Tourism Association’s Timothy Chui says some mainland Chinese visitors felt let down by event marking Labour Day ‘golden week’ break.
HKMA reiterated its warning for Hong Kong’s borrowers to “carefully assess” their financial power in considering buying property or taking on mortgages, as high interest rates “may last some time.”
Hong Kong kept its key interest rate unchanged for a sixth consecutive time in lockstep with the Federal Reserve’s overnight decision, with sticky US inflation forcing investors to delay rate cut bets.
Industry figure Simon Wong says restaurants can expect a 10 per cent drop in business against last year’s figures.
Visitors head to Victoria Harbour to see pyrotechnics, but some say ‘budget-style’ display not as impressive as past shows.
‘There were two failed landing attempts … All the passengers on board the flight started to scream, while children were crying wildly,’ passenger recounts on social media.
Data from the Immigration Department shows about 295,800 people, including roughly 184,440 residents, had also left the city as of 9pm
Thirteen years after statutory minimum wage introduced, a new formula that bars any rate cuts in future has been approved.
The appetite of mainland Chinese firms for premium space was not enough to stem a steady increase in the vacancy rate as more office premises came online and overall demand shrank.
KELY Support Group says schools should provide more career support and companies can benefit from diverse cultural background and talent.
The number of Hongkongers with negative-equity loans stood at 32,073 in the first quarter of the year, tripling from the previous quarter and the most since some 40,000 cases were recorded in the first quarter of 2004.
Airport Authority chairman Jack So will hand over reins to the body’s CEO, Fred Lam.
Police and Department of Health mount joint operation in Yau Tsim Mong district, arresting trio, aged between 29 and 33, for alleged illegal sale of medicinal products.
Hong Kong SMEs’ confidence in the second-quarter business outlook has improved slightly, but it remains well below the year-earlier level when confidence soared on the back of border reopening, survey shows.
Concerns raised after two cinemas shut in about a week, with some residents flagging ‘wave of shop closures’ given empty stores on the streets.
Hong Kong stocks emerged as the best-performing key market globally in April, after funds sought bargains by shifting out of expensive US and Japanese equities and as China’s growth shows more signs of stabilising.
Executive Council also accepted a proposal to review the minimum wage annually, rather than once every two years.