Hong Kong Customs officers today (January 23) distributed pamphlets to stall operators at various Lunar New Year (LNY) fairs to remind them not to sell infringing goods. The Divisional Comm… read more
More than 400 young musicians from the band, orchestras and choirs of the Music Office under the Leisure and Cultural Services Department will come together at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall at 3pm on February 23 (Sunday) to showcase their talents at the 2025 Music Office Annual Gala.
A wide variety of delightful music pieces will be brought to the audience by the Music Office Youth and Children’s Choirs, the Hong Kong Youth Strings, the Hong Kong Youth Chinese Orchestra, the Hong Kong Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Hong Kong Youth Symphonic Band under the batons of the Music Office instructors Lai Wing-yan, Dr Joseph Kam, Kwok Kin-ming and Kevin Ling.
Concert programme includes two vibrant choral works “Enter with Song” and “We are the Voices”; a touching and haunting adagietto from Mahler’s “Symphony No. 5”; “The World Takes on a New Look for Spring”, selected from the modern Peking opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Stratagem”; “National Spirit”, inspired by the traditional Guqin classic; an adagio from the “Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27”, demonstrating Russian maestro Rachmaninoff’s mastery of music compositions; “March on Eight Folk Tunes (It happened one day in May)”, based on the traditional British folk melodies; and a wind ensemble piece “Crescent Moon Dance”, composed for the Japanese animation “Sound! Euphonium”.
Awards of the year will be presented to the most outstanding trainees and members of the Music Office’s band, orchestras and choirs at the concert.
Tickets priced at $90, $115 and $135 are now available at URBTIX (www.urbtix.hk). For telephone bookings, please call 3166 1288. For programme enquiries and concessionary schemes, please call 2796 1003 or 3842 7784 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/mo/activities/traineesevents/musicnconcert/2025moag.html. read more
The electronic map “e-HongKongGuide” 2025 edition produced by the Lands Department (LandsD) is available for free download today (January 23).
This year’s edition features cycling in Hong Kong. Through the use of spatial data and statistics, the new interactive storytelling map promotes cycling and cycling safety, and introduces the ongoing development of the cycling network to showcase the use of open spatial data from the Common Spatial Data Infrastructure Portal.
The “e-HongKongGuide” provides 119 detailed maps of Hong Kong in A3/A4 sizes, gazetteers of street and place names, and indexes of estates and buildings. The maps cover the whole territory of Hong Kong, with urban areas and other built-up areas represented on a larger scale. This year’s edition also includes information about tram stations.
The maps, in GeoPDF format, can be used offline on desktop computers and mobile device applications, and can be printed in A3/A4 sizes. Users can easily locate their positions on the “e-HongKongGuide” maps with satellite positioning functions. In addition, link buttons to relevant maps have been extended to the mobile device application this year for easy browsing.
The new “e-HongKongGuide” is available for browsing and free download on the LandsD’s website (www.landsd.gov.hk/mapping/en/download/ehkg.htm). For enquiries, please call 2231 3187.
​Hongkong Post announced today (January 23) that, with the gradual scaling up of air freight capacity and the provision of transit assistance by other postal administrations, postal services to the following destinations will resume from January 24. Details are given below:
| Service to resume | Destinations |
| Speedpost | Bahrain, Latvia, Mexico, Tunisia |
| Air letter and packet | Algeria, Angola, Azores, Bahrain, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, El Salvador, Faröe Islands, French West Indies (Martinique), Gibraltar, Greenland, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Montenegro, Oman, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, St. Christopher (St. Kitts) & Nevis, Tunisia, Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep.) |
| Air parcel | Algeria, Azores, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, El Salvador, French West Indies (Martinique), Gibraltar, Greenland, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Norfolk Islands, Senegal, St. Christopher (St. Kitts) & Nevis |
| Surface letter and packet | Barbados, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Jamaica, Montenegro, St. Christopher (St. Kitts) & Nevis, Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep.) |
| Surface parcel | Barbados, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela (Bolivarian Rep.) |
​To promote community support for rehabilitation, the Correctional Services Department (CSD) Sports Association launched today (January 23) an online charity gift sales platform, Made in Prison (www.made-in-prison.hk), t… read more