Secretary for Culture, Sports & Tourism Kevin Yeung today congratulated Ng Cheuk-yan on winning bronze in the Women’s 100m Backstroke S6 at the 4th Asian Para Games.
Mr Yeung said the swimmer gave it her all in the competition and won the first medal for the Hong Kong, China delegation, which was encouraging for many other Hong Kong athletes.
“I am looking forward to seeing more breakthroughs made by Hong Kong athletes and success in more events,” he added.
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11th November 2026 – (Taipei) Taiwan has cancelled Alice Huang’s visa and banned her from returning, after she travelled there several times on a Hong Kong passport. Jensen Huang, chief executive of the US chip company Nvidia, has acknowledged an extramarital affair. Reports name the other person as Alice Huang, whose Chinese name is Huang
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Chip stocks spent four sessions clawing out of last week’s AI rout. Nvidia’s boardroom crisis just pulled the rug out from under them. The comeback was fragile to begin with. A Yahoo Finance basket of 62 chip stocks had won back less than a third of the market value it lost from early October to
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Visitors to Hong Kong from across Asia Pacific can now scan and pay with their preferred home wallets via Visa Pay at Octopus QR merchants—no cash or additional local apps required. HONG KONG, Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced the expansion of Visa Scan to Pay acceptance in
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