The Security Bureau has launched "Easy Boundary" which provides current waiting time information at Hong Kong border checkpoints www.sb.gov.hk/eng/bwt/stat...

Hong Kong Consumer Price Index, August 2025 Composite CPI ↑1.1% y-o-y (vs. ↑1.0% in July) By sector, - Food ↑0.8% - Housing ↑1.7% - Utilities ↑0.6% - Alcohol, tobacco ↑1.8% - Clothing, footwear ↓2.8% - Transport ↑2.5% - Medical services ↑2.2% www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

John could you point at the zeroes for a second, thanks

JTWC Warning #16 (22Sep 14HKT): 🌀Ragasa • Wednesday 2am HKT forecast: -- maximum 1-min sustained winds near the center: 215 km/h -- maximum gusts: 260 km/h • Wednesday 2pm HKT: -- maximum 1-min sustained winds near the center: 175 km/h -- maximum gusts: 215 km/h

“Hong Kong is basically a culture of disappearance. It can easily be defined or articulated in terms of what we have lost just as much as by what we currently have.”

Update on the story: Cathay Pacific said more than 500 flights will be cancelled due to the typhoon, and flights will gradually resume on Thursday The Airport Authority said the airport will remain open, but there will be a large reduction in flights

Hong Kong's Education Bureau announces classes in all schools will be suspended Tuesday September 23 AND Wednesday September 24

Even City’super is running out of vegetables

Circle K convenience stores in Hong Kong are only accepting cash and Octopus as a suspected cyberattack has affected their electronic payment systems www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

🌀 Ragasa ⊤1 issued 12:20p ⊥3 expected to be issued 9:40p tonight → Will consider issuing Number 8 signal Tuesday between 1pm and 4pm www.hko.gov.hk/textonly/war...

JTWC Warning #15 (22Sep 08HKT): 🌀Ragasa • Forecast closest to Hong Kong Wednesday 6a HKT, ~128km away • Wednesday 8a HKT forecast: -- maximum 1-min sustained winds near the center: 205 km/h -- maximum gusts: 250 km/h

New World is asking Hong Kong's Airport Authority to reduce or waive part of the fixed HK$1.8 billion annual rent for 11 Skies and pay rent mainly through a share of revenues, for a possible equity stake in the mall www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Hong Kong International Airport is considering grounding all flights between Tuesday night 6pm and Thursday morning 6am as Typhoon Ragasa approaches, according to a source who wished to be unidentified. Exclusive reporting by @journodannyaero.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A Sunday of Hong Kong Spoortzz! ☔️ [1/ 3] Races 9, 10 abandoned due to dangerous conditions; Wednesday's races cancelled www.scmp.com/sport/racing...

If you thought “yacht hub” was ridiculous www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Hong Kong tourism secretary Rosanna Law said building berths for yachts will attract high-end tourists. • She said tourists coming on a yacht would consume various products and services in the city, which would be beneficial to the economy news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...

JTWC Warning #12 (21Sep 14HKT): 🌀Ragasa • Forecast closest to Hong Kong Wednesday 7a HKT, ~156km away • Wednesday 2p HKT forecast: -- maximum 1-min sustained winds near the center: 210 km/h -- maximum gusts: 260 km/h

ALMAD = Adrian Likes Making Assets Disappear

Adrian Cheng, the former CEO of New World, has founded a new company called ALMAD Group, which will explore investing in digital assets and real-world asset tokenization www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

JTWC Warning #11 (21Sep 08HKT): 🌀Ragasa • Forecast closest to Hong Kong Wednesday 4a HKT, ~145km away • Wednesday 8am HKT forecast: -- maximum 1-min sustained winds near the center: 195 km/h -- maximum gusts: 240 km/h

The bomb in Quarry Bay was a 1,000 lb M65 with 500 lb of explosives, dropped by the US Army during World War 2 on April 2 1945 during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, says a military historian. Its explosive power was “practically intact” on discovery on Friday www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Here’s the New York Times’ Tiffany May on the impending demise of Metropol, the dim sum trolley cart restaurant in Admiralty. The restaurant closes on the 27th Free link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...

JTWC Warning #7 (20Sep 08HKT): 🌀Ragasa • Forecast closest to Hong Kong Wednesday 10a HKT, ~120km away • Wednesday 8am HKT: - maximum 1-min sustained winds near the center 175 km/h - gusts 215 km/h

Extensive road closures in the Quarry Bay area due to the discovery of a wartime bomb at a construction site on Pan Hoi Street yesterday. 🚍 21 bus routes affected, diverting to the Island Eastern Corridor (see ALT text) ⵣ Quarry Bay: Exits A & B closed, use Exit C www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

The cash-strapped Urban Renewal Authority is looking to revise the mechanism used to compensate flat owners affected by redevelopment, calling the current system "unsustainable". www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Starry Terrace posted an announcement on Facebook that it had ceased operations on September 15 and entered into liquidation procedures, adding it had fallen into financial difficulties since mid-August. (Translation of the announcement in ALT text)

🇭🇰💳 Hong Kong credit card statistics, Q2 2025 (vs Q2 2024) • Cards in circulation: 22.80 million (19.89M) • Transactions: 360.11M (322.06M) • Total value of transactions: HK$268.4 billion ($239.2B) - local retail $168.1B ($165.6B) - overseas retail $91.2B ($64.6B) - cash advances $9.0B ($9.0B)

Not even a full day at the Apple Store and one of the demo models of the space black iPhone Air has got a few scratches at the back

Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Covid/Flu update, week ending Sep 13 2025 ⚠️ Week 2 of summer flu season - Hospitalization rate >0.44 per 10K pop. & lab surveillance positivity rate 8.31%, over thresholds (0.27 & 4.94%) - 74 severe cases & 50 deaths reported during flu season • Covid levels remain low

Visitors to Japan for August 2025 increased by 16.9% year-on-year • Visitors from Hong Kong decreased by 8.3%; only HK and SG showed a y-o-y decrease • For 2025, Hong Kong visitors decreased 7.1%, the only region in the red, because Hongkongers will believe anything no matter how stupid

Christopher Hui called the pre-retirement leave of Carlson Chan as a "normal arrangement" (正常安排) • Hui's team would continue its "systemic and institutional review" • The Logistics Department and the Audit Commission are also following up news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...

Carlson Chan, the director of the Hong Kong Government Logistics Department, has taken pre-retirement leave, according to a government gazette. Chan was embroiled in Bottled Water-gate in which a company used forged documents to win a government contract www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Bitumen was discovered in the water supply of 3 buildings in a Ma On Shan estate. "The black particles were found to be bitumen, which is inert and not harmful to humans," said the WSD, and added it strengthened the filtration capability of the water pipes www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

#DiscoveryBay - Airport 🚍 🛫 DB02R & DB02A Starting Tuesday September 23, DB buses will no longer stop at the airport's temporary outdoor bus bay • At the airport, board at Terminal 2 Bus Bay 8 • Buses from DB will also stop at Terminal 1 departures (for alighting only) before heading to Terminal 2

Justice Roberto Alexandre Vieira Ribeiro, 76, the longest serving of the 3 Permanent Judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal, has been reappointed (for presumably another 3-year term) www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

Hello iOS team, for your iOS 26.0.1 release I would like screenshot captures to show up on the bottom left corner rather than automatically saving them into Photos at least 20% of the time

From yesterday's press conference on the Policy Address, here is CE John Lee trying to explain how AI will help counting the number of ships at sea

"Hongkongers sought refuge in Britain after China punished the city for standing up for values that were inculcated by its former colonial master. They are owed a debt of loyalty. Many exist under the threat of the CCP's transnational repression; they don’t need further reasons to fear the future."

If all three 11:30pm late night talk show hosts were fired from their jobs and decided to take their talents to Canada, which networks (assuming they can afford it) get whom? It would have to be Colbert would be on CBC, Fallon on CTV, and Kimmel on Global, no?

An interesting comparison of Grade A office space values between Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Sydney. Singapore’s office values have not dropped despite a slump in deal volumes in 2025 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This nugget was buried deep deep deep in a story last night about the proposed Tenants Purchase Scheme

The Fed cut interest rates by 25 points, meaning the Hong Kong Monetary Authority will follow suit and adjust its base rate to 4.50%. 2 more cuts are predicted for the rest of 2025 www.bbc.com/news/live/cx...

When asked why there is no cash payout scheme for Hong Kong residents this year, CE John Lee replied that it is not the time for handouts as the government is facing a budget deficit of some HK$120 billion. news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...

Imagine eating a Coffee Crisp chocolate bar but with the crunch of a potato chip, and this is exactly what you get

CE John Lee, on the struggling media industry: "What I'm trying to do is opening doors for the media to do their own things. I will not interfere with what they do, and I think our media are professional enough to impress their partners overseas." news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...

HKUST Business School dropped one place to 2nd in Bloomberg's Best Business School Rankings 2025-26 for the Asia-Pacific region out of 9 schools. • Class size 65, Tuition HK$600,000 • Median base salary for graduates: HK$560,000 + $66,014 median starting bonus

Winners: • Real estate developers • Infrastructure/transport industries • Tech companies • Schools & students Losers: • Property investors • Owners of taxi licenses • Civil servants (being replaced by AI) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

All the hubs mentioned in the 2025 Policy Address • "premier international hub" • global hub for AI development • bond market hub • RMB business hub • gold reserve hub • international logistics hub • international aviation hub • GBA transit hub • top cargo hub • international legal hub ...

Policies from the 2025 Policy Address that directly target ordinary people, esp. poor/disadvantaged: • reduced waiting times for public rental housing to 5.1 years • expansion of Community Living Rooms to provide shared space for those in subdivided units (...)

CE John Lee took 2 hours 53 minutes 7 seconds to read an entire binder (of the 2025 Policy Address). • 151 runners completed the 2025 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon within 2:53:07