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Council Meetings (Question): Attracting Foreign Companies to Hong Kong (2022.12.14)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): As revealed by the 2022 Annual Survey of Companies in Hong Kong with Parent Companies Located outside Hong Kong released by the Government last month, as at mid-September this year, the total number of regional headquarters (“RHQs”), regional offices and local offices in Hong Kong with parent companies located outside …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Monitoring of Railway Services (2022.11.30)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, as the equipment and facilities of MTRCL have been in use for many years, there are increasing possibilities of accidents occurring due to various kinds of wear and tear. While I believe that MTRCL will try its best to reduce accidents, accidents do happen. I would like to ask …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Promoting the Development of Hong Kong into an International Virtual Assets Centre (2022.11.23)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, the recent collapse of a VA platform has revealed the incredibly lax regulatory regime at present. It can be said that there is no protection for consumers at all. Hong Kong wants to be a pioneer, but the greatest difficulty in regulating VA lies in catching up with the …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Export Credit Insurance Services (2022.05.18)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): Thank you, President. Insurance is a risk management business; the better we can understand the nature of risks, the better we can set reasonable and accurate insurance premiums. There are a large number of private enterprises in the country and the key is how to better realize the risks involved. …

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Council Meetings (Question): Support for Patients with Mental Illness Amid the Epidemic (2022.05.04)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): It has been reported that a number of violent incidents and family tragedies suspected to be related to patients with mental illness occurred earlier on. There are analyses pointing out that the anti-epidemic measures implemented in the past two-odd years may have affected the rehabilitation and community support services provided …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Taking Out Insurance Policies for Taxis (2022.01.19)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): Thank you, Deputy President. At present, dozens of insurers can underwrite taxi insurance but only less than 10 such companies in the market are willing to do so. It is because the operation of this type of insurance has long suffered losses for reasons including a high accident rate, insurance …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Tourism Development Planning for Hong Kong (2021.10.20)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): The CTD Plan for GBA proposes to progressively promote the development of international cruise terminals in Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, enhance complementarity of each other’s strengths, promote sharing of sources of tourists, as well as strengthen collaboration. The cruise terminals in these three places allow 220 000-ton mega cruise …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Immigration Quarantine for Foreign Domestic Helpers (2021.09.29)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, the Secretary stated in the main reply that the Government would only consider the need for further increasing the number of DQFs, having regard to the worldwide and local epidemic situation.However, Mr YIU Si-wing, a Member from the tourism sector, has already pointed out that many hotels were willing …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Resumption of Normal Traveller Clearance Between Hong Kong and the Mainland (2021.09.29)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, there are comments in the community that Hong Kong’s failure to resume quarantine-free travel is due to our refusal to use the national health code, but part (3) of the main reply points out that OGCIO has been collaborating with the “Health Code” technical teams of the Mainland on …

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Council Meetings (Oral Question): Alienation of Home Ownership Scheme Flats (2021.09.29)

MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, as pointed out in the main reply, it is not common for SSF owners to resell their flats within the first five years of purchase. But as Mr KWOK Wai-keung pointed out just now and as can been clearly seen from the Annex, the number in 2020 is 10 …

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