EV Scan (Week 50, December 11, 2025)
EV Scan (Week 50, December 11, 2025)
Over 100 travel scheme cases referred
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TD starts processing applications for Southbound Travel for Guangdong Vehicles
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Hong Kong launches professional services platform for mainland Chinese companies
Hong Kong authorities have launched a professional services platform to provide support for mainland Chinese companies expanding overseas, while boosting business opportunities for local sectors.
Speaking at the launch ceremony for the Hong Kong Professional Services GoGlobal Platform on Saturday, Deputy Secretary for Justice Horace Cheung Kwok-kwan said the sectors’ international outlook, uncompromising standards and nuanced understanding of both Chinese and global contexts allowed them to…
Filipino helper killed in Hong Kong fire ‘was going home for good to be with son’
A domestic helper who died in Hong Kong’s devastating Tai Po fire last month had planned to return home permanently to the Philippines to be with her 10-year-old son and was due to leave on Saturday, the Post has learned.
Maryan Pascual Esteban, 39, died with her ward, five-year-old Hannah, in the inferno at the Wang Fuk Court housing estate, which killed at least 160 people and displaced more than 4,000 residents.
Ten domestic workers – Esteban and nine Indonesians – were among the fatalities…
Hong Kong to dip to 14°C tomorrow as strong northeast monsoon brings cool, very dry spell
13th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) A blustery northeasterly surge is set to keep Hong Kong on the cooler, very dry side tomorrow, with the mercury forecast to fall to about 14 degrees Celsius in urban districts by dawn and even lower in parts of the New Territories. Daytime sunshine will return in spells, but […]
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Over a million Ukrainians lose power as Russia pounds grid, Berlin talks push contested peace plan
14th December 2025 – (Kyiv) More than a million homes across Ukraine were plunged into darkness after a fresh night-time barrage struck power and industrial sites, officials said, highlighting Moscow’s renewed winter offensive against the country’s energy system. Interior minister Ihor Klymenko reported at least five injuries across five regions as emergency crews fought fires […]
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Half-share jackpot won in tonight’s Mark Six, next draw on Tuesday with HK$8 million top prize
14th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) Hong Kong’s Mark Six draw for the 129th game of 2025 produced winning numbers 10, 17, 19, 28, 45 and 49, with the extra number 1. A half-share of the first prize was won, delivering a payout of HK$8,000,000 for the winning bet. One ticket took the second prize, […]
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200 queue at Tai Bo Restaurant in Yuen Long as viral hype drives two-hour waits for pork patty rice
14th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) Tai Bo Restaurant, a neighbourhood cha chaan teng in Yuen Long, has exploded in popularity, drawing a lunchtime queue of about 200 people and wait times nearing two hours. The sudden fame stems from a viral Threads “copypasta” that has, since May, repeatedly proclaimed Tai Bo’s pork patty rice […]
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Cambodia–Thailand flights run to schedule despite border clashes, officials say
14th December 2025 – (Phnom Penh) Commercial air links between Cambodia and Thailand remained on schedule over the weekend, with services operating normally on the Phnom Penh–Bangkok and Siem Reap–Thailand routes despite renewed fighting along the land border, according to Cambodia’s civil aviation authority. The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said it is conducting […]
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Sham Shui Po micro-flat listed at HK$2,500 sparks outrage over ‘toilet-in-room’ layout
14th December 2025 – (Hong Kong) An online rental post has ignited a storm of criticism after advertising a subdivided flat in a Sham Shui Po walk-up for HK$2,500 a month, complete with photos showing a cramped interior and a lavatory installed within the sleeping area. The listing, shared in a Facebook rental group, stated […]
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How Hong Kong can capitalise on Chinese creative destruction
The Nobel Prize may not seem very relevant to many, but we can certainly draw lessons from its winners. Earlier this year, Peter Howitt – an honorary professor and fellow alumnus of Canada’s Western University – was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with two other professors for work on innovation-driven economic growth.
Howitt’s work helped formalise the concept of creative destruction, which explains how economies evolve through cycles of renewal, where new companies and…
