Mainland Visitors

Hong Kong could learn to be more gracious towards mainland visitors

27 Feb 2013

The large number of mainland shoppers has disrupted the daily life of Hong Kong citizens. Prices have gone up, essentials are sometimes out of stock or reserved for mainland visitors, and locals...

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Give mainland parallel-goods traders border ban, NPC to urge CPPCC

25 Feb 2013

Brave Chan Yung, a new National People's Congress delegate from the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, said the proposal was one of 20 suggestions to be made at next...

Social etiquette a global problem

24 Feb 2013

In recent years, the negativity between Hong Kong locals and mainlanders has been disheartening. The most discussed issue is the distasteful and unpleasant behaviour of mainlanders when travelling...

Call for visa crackdown on bogus Buddhist monks

24 Feb 2013

One police source familiar with a rising trend of bogus Buddhist monks visiting Hong Kong as "professional beggars" said they may be violating their three-month visitor visas.

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Bogus monks' nightly pub crawl with begging bowls

24 Feb 2013

In Lan Kwai Fong on Friday, a monk dressed in an orange robe was seen begging for alms by tapping men on the shoulder.

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Anti-mainlander hate demeans Hongkongers

It saddens me that we have become a city filled with hate. Everywhere I went this past week, there it was. The hate is stomach-turning, especially as the Lunar New Year is a time for us to...

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CY urges cautious growth for tourism industry amid scandals

The chief executive cautioned the tourism industry against blindly pursuing growth in visitor numbers, as a travel agency boss at the centre of recent scandals failed yet again to appear at the...

Travel agency rebuked for Lunar New Year hotel fiasco

The tourism watchdog on Monday rebuked a travel agency manager accused of leaving mainland tourists stranded without hotel accommodation after he claimed it had been impossible to verify whether...

CHINA BRIEFING

The people must be encouraged to shop at home

Millions of noisy mainlanders headed home after the Lunar New Year break laden with suitcases that bulged with goods ranging from cans of milk powder to luxury leather bags, delivering bumper...

TOURISM

Individual visit scheme to Hong Kong 'shouldn't be expanded', says tourism chief

Tourism Board chairman James Tien Pei-chun and Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made the remarks separately yesterday in response to the...

LEADER

City needs a statutory tourism authority more than ever

The government said it would take three years to set up an independent statutory body to oversee travel agents, tour guides and escorts and hold them to account for violations of their duty to...

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