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2021-05-25 02:05:28 GMT2021-05-25 10:05:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English HONG KONG, May 25 (Xinhua) -- A vintage-style ticket, hand-drawn posters of old movies and a neon light model of the parabolic truss. A recent immersive exhibition of Hong Kongs iconic theater brought back May Mas memories of decades ago. Ma, 74, had worked as an usher and ticket seller in the State Theater for 19 years since 1978. In the exhibition last month, the original glamour of the theater that closed in 1997 ...

2021-05-25 11:16 　 By: Xinhua 　 HONG KONG, May 25 (Xinhua) -- A vintage-style ticket, hand-drawn posters of old movies and a neon light model of the parabolic truss. A recent immersive exhibition of Hong Kongs iconic theater brought back May Mas memories of decades ago. Ma, 74, had worked as an usher and ticket seller in the State Theater for 19 years since 1978. In the exhibition last month, the original glamour of the theater that closed in 1997...

In addition to causing almost seven million deaths worldwide (so far), shutting down countless businesses of every kind, and redefining social intercourse in ways that may turn out to be permanent, the coronavirus pandemic — for obvious reasons — brought most international travel to a halt.

Introduction Officials, ambassadors, media veterans and scholars attend the forum to share their thoughts on how the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement will propel regional cooperation in Asia. The event is jointly organized by the publicity department of the Hainan provincial government, China Daily, the China Institute for Reform and Development, and Institute for Free Trade Port with Chinese Characteristics. All Port busine...

Data policies, laws, and regulations: Creating a trust environment 05/19/2021 | 12:06am EDT Send by mail : Message : Todays digitally enabled economy is fueled by increasingly complex data transactions. The World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the relationships between different types of data and data transactions used for development purposes and the legal enablers and safeguards that need to be put in place to engender trust. This trust environment is...

Ben Kwok May 12, 2021 10:09 I felt I never really left North Point. I lived in the area during my teenage years. For my first job, I went to work at North Point Industrial Building , where the former office of Hong Kong Economic Journal was located. I spent two happy years there. I must have moved a dozen times since then, but it’s almost always around this friendly district on Hong Kong Island. Yesterday I popped by the State Theatre, a North Point landmark famous for its concrete arch b...

Unraveling data’s Gordian knot: 5 pillars to support ‘Data for Better Lives’ © World Bank The World Bank’s new report on trusted data-sharing offers a framework for maximizing data use by governments, businesses, and individuals while bolstering data protection and individual rights over their personal data. Amongst themes explored in the World Bank’s recently launched World Development Report 2021, Data for Better Lives, is that data collected for one purpose has the potential to ge...

BreakingviewsHong Kong-on-Thames lies in not-too-distant future Karen Kwok 7 minute read A picture is taken in Convoys Wharf, a riverside site in Deptford in London, Britain, February 14, 2021. On the south bank of the River Thames in London, halfway between London Bridge and Greenwich, is a plot of land that has been deserted for about 15 years. A heavily guarded fence is the only clue for passing pedestrians that the derelict 17-hectare site is potentially valuable. If all goes to plan, howev...

The writer is a former SAPM Health. LAWRENCE Summers has some credentials to reckon with: chief economist of the World Bank (1991-1993); US treasury secretary (1999-2001); president of Harvard University (2001-2006); director of the National Economic Council for president Obama (2009-2010). He is primarily a macroeconomist who has a deep interest in and has made significant contributions to public finance, international economics, economic history and developmental economics. In 1993, as a chie...

Improving data infrastructure helps ensure equitable access for poor people in poor countries 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives An explosion of data Global data traffic has increased one thousand times over the last 20 years. Data travel thousands of kilometers along this seamless global data infrastructure supply chain at breathtaking speeds of 200,000 kilometers per second—meaning that digital data can, in principle, circle the globe five times within a second. This explo...