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Thank you for joining the webinar of “Hong Kong as an International Hub: New Opportunities and Partnership for Asian Companies” on 10 June 2021. We hope you have found the discussion and sharing in the webinar most useful in learning how companies leverage innovative e-commerce solutions and health-tech innovation to capture opportunities in ASEAN and Mainland China.

In view of the persistent unstable epidemic situation in the region and the prevalent outbreaks of cases involving the more transmissible mutant virus strains, the Hong Kong SAR Government will specify a number of countries as high-risk Group B specified places and adopt tighter boarding and quarantine measures on arrivals from these places in order to minimise the risk of case importation.

The Government announced today it will specify Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam as high-risk specified places with effect from June 4. The boarding and quarantine requirements for people arriving from these places will be adjusted.

The Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Mr Paul Chan, unveiled the 2021-22 Budget on 24 February. Please see below some of the major highlights. Kindly note that all currencies shown are denominated in Hong Kong dollars.

We would like to share with you the exciting programme line-up of the Hong Kong Arts Festival (HKAF) 2021, which is a major international arts festival not to be missed. The 49th HKAF will feature a combination of online and in-venue programmes, including an array of PLUS events.

The HKSAR government has announced that with effect from 31 January 2021, the British National (Overseas) passport will no longer be recognised as valid travel document or proof of identity.

We would like to inform you that the entry policies for nationals of Vietnam for study and under the Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates (IANG) will be relaxed with effect from today (January 25). Under the latest policies, nationals of Vietnam will be eligible to enter Hong Kong for study in full-time locally-accredited local programmes at undergraduate or above level offered by the University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded institutions.

We would like to share with you the latest issue of the electronic newsletter of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) - ICAC Post. It can be accessed at the link below: https://www.icac.org.hk/icac/post/issue41/en/index.html#