2021-04-08 16:36:10 GMT2021-04-09 00:36:10(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, April 8 (Xinhua) Fabrizio Goldoni, an Italian expatriate who has lived in Hong Kong for nearly three decades, decided to speak up for the global financial hub after it once again became the target of a smear campaign.
When reading international newspapers recently, Goldoni found groundless allegations, including Hong Kong s democracy being trampled on and freedoms and human rights being undermined.
Such statements are not correct, he said in an interview with Xinhua.
Goldoni believes that some Western politicians just aimed at projecting a bad image of Hong Kong and containing China s development. This unfortunately is what happens, he said.
2021-04-02 03:31:32 GMT2021-04-02 11:31:32(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HONG KONG, April 2 (Xinhua) Improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) would bring the legislature operation and the government administration in the HKSAR back on the right track, while implementing the patriots administering Hong Kong principle would open up a new perspective in tapping human resources, the first HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa has said.
Hong Kong residents should strive together in unity to usher in a golden era featuring Hong Kong s shift from chaos to order and from order to prosperity, Tung, now vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
As the legislative changes adopted by the National People s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on improving Hong Kong s electoral system went into effect on Wednesday, the global financial hub officially embarked on the local legislation.
We have a very tight schedule, Hong Kong lawmaker Horace Cheung said with regards to drawing up the legislative work agenda for the coming months.
Cheung, the newly-elected deputy chairman of a Legislative Council (LegCo) subcommittee on improving Hong Kong s electoral system, will race against time with his colleagues to deliberate on amendments to more than 20 principal and subsidiary ordinances from mid-April.
It s a complicated, challenging task. We will go all out to finish the legislation at an early date, he said ahead of the committee s Wednesday meeting, the second since its establishment on March 19.
2021-04-01 03:18:59 GMT2021-04-01 11:18:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Photo taken on July 14, 2020 shows the Golden Bauhinia Square in China's Hong Kong. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaochu)
HONG KONG, March 31 (Xinhua) As the legislative changes adopted by the National People s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee on improving Hong Kong s electoral system went into effect on Wednesday, the global financial hub officially embarked on the local legislation. A VERY TIGHT SCHEDULE We have a very tight schedule, Hong Kong lawmaker Horace Cheung said with regards to drawing up the legislative work agenda for the coming months.
Cheung, the newly-elected deputy chairman of a Legislative Council (LegCo) subcommittee on improving Hong Kong s electoral system, will race against time with his colleagues to deliberate on amendments to more than 20 principal and subsidiary ordinances from mid-April.
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By Tao Mingyang Published: Apr 01, 2021 09:09 PM
A vending machine in a Shanghai underground station allows customers to pay by digital yuan. Photo: Xie Jun/GTChina s central bank and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have cooperated to conduct technical tests on the cross-border use of the digital yuan, an official said on Thursday, a further step in China s wider push of the use of the digital currency.
The trial was a normal test for the digital yuan and more will be conducted in the future, Wang Xin, director of Research Bureau of the People s Bank of China (PBC) said at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday.