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Hong Kong: Xia Baolong holds more exchanges

The Construction Industry Council hosted the inaugural Global Construction Sustainability Forum and Exhibition, bringing together specialist...

Entry rules to be eased to attract more people to work in several sectors

The new plan includes recruitment quotas for as many as 12,000 foreign workers in construction, said Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn. Hong Kong will also hire up to 6,300 laborers for the aviation industry, which Secretary for Transport and Logistics Lam Sai-hung said is suffering from a shortage of “front line airport staff” that will “dampen the citys aviation hub.”

Hong Kong will ease entry rules to bring in 27,000 foreign workers to stem a manpower shortage in the financial hub, Azernews reports, citing Al Ara

Hong Kong will ease entry rules to bring in 27,000 foreign workers to stem a manpower shortage in the financial hub, Azernews reports, citing Al Arabiya.

Hong Kong’s government will sell more land in its fiscal second quarter, increasing the number of homes that can be built on the land tenfold, after the new administration of Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu pledged to “spare no effort” to ease housing shortages in the world’s least affordable urban centre.