Hong Kong's Wan Chai MTR station is vandalized by radical protesters, on Sept 15, 2019. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn]
Hong Kong's unemployment rate edged up to 2.9 percent over the past few months after remaining virtually unchanged for over a year, as softer consumption and a weaker export sector began to take a toll on the labor market, according to the Census and Statistics Department of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor on Tuesday said she aspired to boost the city's competitive strengths so that Hong Kong will become one of the "dual engines", together with Shenzhen, in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
His story has won wide praise on the internet. "What we lack is the courage to try what we want in life," one user said on the popular Chinese social media platform Weibo.
Hong Kong officers have acted with great restraint compared with law enforcement officers in other places, including the US, Italy and Russia. Even though police officers have been injured, not one bullet from a real gun has been fired against protesters, Lam said.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor expresses her deep concern at a press conference on Tuesday about teenagers being sent to protests as “reporters”. [PARKER ZHENG/CHINA DAILY]
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Hong Kong leaders and Beijing municipal officials set their sights on Thursday on high-end service and the innovation and technology industry for closer cooperation between the two cities to enhance their competitiveness on the world stage.
His son-in-law was also convicted for one year in jail for abetment.
His lawyers said the death penalty is arbitrarily applied and that it is not applied proportionally, as the state Constitution requires.
Homelink employees check information at an outlet of the company in Beijing. [Photo provided to China Daily]