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🇭🇰 🌙 Ramadan will begin tomorrow, March 1st, if the moon is sighted tonight.

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🇸🇬 🧑‍🎤 Singapore media: Lady Gaga is rumoured to have signed an exclusive agreement with the city-state to host 4 to 6 concerts, with no other Asian city on the tour card.

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🇭🇰 🏘️ 📉 Via the Bank for International Settlements (@BIS_org), Hong Kong led the world in real residential property price declines in Q3 2024. buff.ly/3XkRijA

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New $2 Scheme set to come into effect from September 2026, "with authorities blaming stored-value card company Octopus for the delay" according to SCMP. My question is; if the scheme doesn't start for 18 months, why was it announced in the 2025-26 budget?

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LegCo member Junius Ho has questioned the Hong Kong government's reliance on issuing bonds to negate budget blowouts, and says the 2% cut in expenditure is too conservative. Sing Tao (Chinese):

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🇭🇰 🚌 Adjustments to the $2 JoyYou Card scheme will apply to everyone aged 60+.

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🇭🇰 🚌 🚂 ⛴️ 💴 Transport Subsidy Scheme monthly threshold to be raised from the current $400 spending per month to $500 in June. Via SCMP: https://buff.ly/4boXSLG

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Chunk of concrete falls off the Cross Harbour Tunnel, hits Tesla, closes one lane of the CHT HKI-bound for 90 minutes as repairs to the tunnel were completed. SCMP: https://buff.ly/3QzBO7g

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🇭🇰 🐭 Hong Kong Disneyland ends nine straight years of losses with a HK$838 million profit for the fiscal year October 1st 2023 to September 28th 2024 on 7.7 million visitors, an all-time high. HK01 (Chinese): https://buff.ly/4hQy4dP

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🇭🇰 🛫 🛬 Hong Kong International Airport traffic, January 2025: • flight movements up by 17.0% to 33,660; post-pandemic high • January 25th HKIA handled over 193,000 passengers; post-pandemic high • 5.28 million passengers in January, up 27.8% Y-O-Y https://buff.ly/43eXMUV

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🇭🇰 🚗 Starting from November 1st, unless child passengers aged below 8 reach a height of 135cms, they must use a Child Restraining Device in private cars irrespective of sitting in the front or rear seats. https://buff.ly/3CTz1Tr

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🇭🇰 🖥️ 🥷 InvestHK suffered a ransomware attack on Saturday, with preliminary findings indicating the affected areas include an internal customer relationship management system, the agency’s intranet and part of InvestHK's website operations.

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🇭🇰 🌀🛫 🛬 🇸🇬 🚄 Singapore Airlines will begin accepting In-town Airport Express check-in at Hong Kong Station from Monday, February 24th. Operating hours for SQ check-in will be 9am-5.20pm.

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🇭🇰 ↔️ 🇨🇳 🛂 Shenzhen Bay Port will be closed from 2am until 11am on Sunday February 23rd to facilitate the 15th National Games Cross-boundary Marathon test event. https://buff.ly/3EN5uvj

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$10 tickets going for a grand. Hong Kong at its finest. 😂 www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-new...

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MTR spokesperson: • "There was no refusal to lend an AED or to refuse to provide assistance because the incident was not within the MTR area." • staff went to retrieve the AED but by the time the request came through the ambulance had already arrived

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• 62-year-old man collapses outside Tsuen Wan West Station • off-duty medical officer provides first-aid; requests AED from MTR staff • Staff refused stating it was "none of their business" as it was outside the station • man dies • MTR admits there was an AED in the station

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🇭🇰 🏫 💸 The annual non-means tested $2,500 Student Grant offered to parents of every secondary, primary and kindergarten student in Hong Kong is likely to face the axe in the upcoming budget. Estimated annual savings of nearly HK$2 billion.

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🇭🇰 🚌 💸 Multiple local media outlets are reporting the government will adjust the $2 Transport Scheme for those aged 60-64 in the coming budget. • maximum of 8 trips per day • fares under $10 remain at $2 • fares over $10 will be charged at 20% Ming Pao:

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• 62-year-old man collapses outside Tsuen Wan West Station • off-duty medical officer provides first-aid; requests AED from MTR staff • Staff refused stating it was "none of their business" as it was outside the station • man dies • MTR admits there was an AED in the station

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🇭🇰 🏟️ Tickets for the grand opening ceremony of the Kai Tak Sports Park, to be held at Kai Tak Stadium on March 1st, go on sale from 10am on Friday for $10. Tickets will be available via urbitx.hk

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🇭🇰 👨‍🍳 Cornerstone restaurant on Hollywood Road in Central has closed with immediate effect.

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🇭🇰 🏦 💸 Hang Seng Bank's credit impaired gross loans and advances jumped to HK$19.8 billion at the end of last year, up from HK$1.08 billion in Dec. 2023. The city’s commercial real estate sector is going through one of its worst slumps in history, with no end in sight.

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Commissioner for Transport Angela Lee, on this afternoon's meeting with ride-hailing companies: "The working group will also be meeting certain car-hailing platforms this afternoon. The process mainly is for the working group to engage their views on the future regulations of the hailing platform."

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The Transport Advisory Committee and various stakeholders, including the taxi unions, met on Wednesday, with the TAC agreeing to crackdown on unlicensed rail-hailing cars and to move forward with regulating the ride-hailing industry, aiming to put forward legislative proposals within this year

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World No 1 snooker player Judd Trump, newly minted Hong Kong resident, is hoping to meet Ronnie O'Sullivan, newly minted Hong Kong resident, in the final of the World Grand Prix 2025. Both are still playing under the England flag though according to the official website. https://buff.ly/4k0TVk5

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🇭🇰 🚖 The taxi industry appears to have backed down from its plan for a citywide strike in protest against the government's slow progress in regulating unlicensed ride-hailing platforms. This shift follows John Lee warning's that such a move might be counterproductive.

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Hong Kong’s statutory minimum wage rate will increase 5.25% from HK$40/hr to HK$42.10/hr effective May 1, 2025 www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

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🇭🇰 🤮 Centre for Health Protection is investigating three food poisoning clusters linked to "Oyster Station" on Knutsford Terrace. Five males and six females, aged between 28 and 35, developed abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting about 16 to 61 hours after eating at the restaurant .

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🇭🇰 🚖 Chief Executive John Lee, on the proposed taxi strike next week: • many in the taxi industry won't support a strike • govt's plan of taxi fleets and ride-hailing regulation still going forward • issue has been a long time coming; HKSARG determined to solve the problem

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🇭🇰 🕺 Creamfields 2025 in Hong Kong, due to take place on March 8th and 9th at Central Harbourfront, has been cancelled according to the official Instagram account. IG Story: https://buff.ly/415aFOF

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🇭🇰 🚕 Hong Kong Tele-call Taxi Association chairman Wong Yu-ting has written to the Commissioner of Transport and the Commissioner of Police with the subject line "Requesting immediate law enforcement to prosecute illegal white-plate vehicles". Sing Tao Daily (Chinese):

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Warm and smoggy.

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🇭🇰 🥵 28.3℃ recorded in Kowloon City the warmest temperature in Hong Kong for an unseasonably warm February 16th.

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🇭🇰 🛬 🚄 Provisional tourism figures for January 2025 (which included CNY), saw 4.74 million arrivals, a 24% increase over January 2024 (which did not include CNY). 1.02 million non-Mainland visitors in January, making it the third consecutive month with more than 1 million non-Mainland arrivals.

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🇭🇰🚔 "Space oil" aka etomidate has been gazetted as a dangerous drug, meaning that possession of a space oil vape can lead to a $1 million fine and 7 years imprisonment upon conviction. Three variants (5, 6, and 7 below) have also been added to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance.

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One cab driver said he wouldn't join the strike. “I have to pay the rent of the cab. If I take part in the strike, who would pay for the rent?” Another driver said, “The strike is meaningless. Ride-hailing services are a trend and it is impossible to stop them” www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

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🇭🇰 🛫 Greater Bay Airlines has submitted their report to the Transport Bureau on the cancellation of 128 flights in February and March affecting ~5,500 passengers. tl;dr version: "Our new management team screwed up." Full report: https://buff.ly/4aUE1DO

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A meeting of the Hong Kong taxi industry was held last night, and an internal document seen by local media says if the government doesn't put a stop to online ride-hailing apps using unlicensed-for-passenger-services, the taxi industry will strike for 5 days starting March 5th.

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🇭🇰 🏥 🦠 Prof. Yuen Kwok-yung, on e.Coli outbreak at PMH : • Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections possibly contracted through a shared toilet • chances of an outbreak at the hospital low • source of infection still unconfirmed

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🇭🇰 🛫 Cathay Pacific has fallen one spot to fourth in this year's airlineratings.com list of the top Full Service Airlines. Qatar Airways lost top billing this year to Korean Air, with Air New Zealand moving up from fourth to third. https://buff.ly/42M0pgB

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Hong Kong has dropped one point in the latest Corruption Perception Index, with the 2024 edition leaving HK in 17th position. With a score of 74, Hong Kong is 10 points below 3rd placed Singapore.

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🇭🇰 🛫 🛬 🇦🇺 QANTAS becomes the third airline to add in-town check-in services at Hong Kong and Kowloon Stations. The Airport Express service now accepts check-in for Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Airlines and QANTAS. Operating hours vary between airlines and train station. https://buff.ly/41a4kCM

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🇭🇰 📦 🛫 🛬 🇺🇸 Hong Kong Post says it will start accepting parcel posts to the US from Tuesday.

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🇭🇰 🇹🇲 🏒 Four Turkmen ice hockey players have been thrown out of the Asian Games in Harbin after a violent attack on Hong Kong players post-match. Hong Kong won the game 5-1. The Standard: https://buff.ly/4hPlNG6

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🇭🇰 🚔 76-year-old man arrested for possession of 1.5kgs of suspected meth in Prince Edward. He has been charged with one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug, and will appear at West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on Monday.

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🇭🇰 💸 Member of Chief Executive John Lee's executive council Chan Kin-por says the govt has no choice but to cut spending in the next budget. "The situation is grim. I hope Hong Kong people can understand that there's no choice but to cut spending.”

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🇭🇰 🥶 Minimum temperatures around Hong Kong on Sunday to range between 5° C and 10° C.

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