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IFFO hosts panel discussion on Sustainable Finance in Greater Bay Area at sixth Belt and Road Summit (with photo) ****************************************************************************************** The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority:      The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office (IFFO) today (September 1) hosted a panel discussion on “‘Greener’ Bay Area: through the Sustainable Finance Lens” at the sixth Belt and Road Summit, delving into sustainable development and related financing in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), with a focus on green supply chain and infrastructure financing.      The Director General of the Guangdong Financial ... Read more

LegCo Panel on Development visits New Territories North (with photos) ********************************************************************* The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:      The Legislative Council (LegCo) Panel on Development visited three Potential Development Areas (PDAs) in New Territories North (NTN) today (August 24) to better understand the current situation of NTN.        Members first arrived at Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point. With the company of the Secretary for Development, Mr Michael Wong, Members went atop the Hong Kong Police Force observation tower to view Shenzhen and the proposed site of one of the PDAs in NTN ... Read more

LegCo Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services visits the Judiciary (with photos) ****************************************************************************************** The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:      The Legislative Council (LegCo) Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services visited the West Kowloon Law Courts Building (WKLCB) today (August 20) to meet with members of the Judiciary and tour the facilities of the WKLCB.      Members met with the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal, Mr Andrew Cheung Kui-nung; the Chief Judge of the High Court, Mr Justice Jeremy Poon Shiu-chor; and the Judiciary Administrator, Ms ... Read more

LegCo Panel on Environmental Affairs visits waste treatment and resource recovery facilities (with photos) ****************************************************************************************** The following is issued on behalf of the Legislative Council Secretariat:      The Legislative Council (LegCo) Panel on Environmental Affairs visited various waste treatment and resource recovery facilities on Lantau Island and in Tuen Mun today (August 17) to better understand the work of the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) on promoting waste-to-energy and waste-to-resource transformation as well as community participation in resource recovery.        With the company of the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Wong Kam-sing, and the Under Secretary for the ... Read more

Zurich – “People are already starving in Syria,” warned Professor Joshua Landis at an event hosted by the Quincy Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank, on Wednesday. “Medical equipment is not getting into the country. Prices have gone up. This is a siege. It is war by other means. And people are going to die in large numbers, because it’s completely indiscriminate.” Professor Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the leading Syria experts in the United States. The event at which he spoke, entitled, “The Human Rights Impact ... Read more