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Under Secretary for Education Kenneth Chen says the Government will improve the inspection of textbooks to lower the threshold for new textbook publishers. Introducing competition in the textbook industry will provide better quality and more reasonably priced teaching materials to schools.

Hong Kong’s seaborne cargo up 3% to 43.2mn tonnes, while river cargo down 6% to 19.5mn tones.

The company expects revamped website with more easily accessible interface to remain premier resource for residential property in Hong Kong.

Among the major changes are deletion of one residential tower and a three-level podium and removal of a basement carpark to reduce development bulk.

Approval of 24 applications for pre-sale consent for uncompleted residential units and 2 applications for uncompleted commercial developments are still pending.

Hong Kong incurred no unsettled forward contracts at the end of April and May.

The deal aims to cover 2 destinations in Mexico as it further expand reach to Latin America market.

The impact of the Special Stamp Duty introduced in November on all sales with a holding period of less than 24 months is said to have faded.

The luxury goods company taps China market, which is seen to be the world’s third-biggest market for luxury goods in 5 years.

The first contract will be a 1 kilo gold futures contract providing physical delivery in Hong Kong.

The number of searches of land registers made by the public in May was 498,692, up 0.7% on same time last year.

The technology enhances security of ATM transactions as fraudsters would have difficulty in card replication.

More than three-fourths of the approved applicants are Chinese.

Non-accredited merchants found to be displaying the QTS sign to receive warning letters from the Tourism Board to demand the immediate removal of sign.

Deal to merge major PC Company with major European PC, multimedia products and digital services vendor to accelerate consumer business growth in Europe.

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre will host event to unite players in the US$5.4tn sector.