The first holiday test of the revamped Huanggang Port demands a thorough review. The newly opened checkpoint was meant to showcase Hong Kong’s readiness for deeper integration with the Greater Bay Area under the latest national drive. Instead, its first major holiday rush showed that a modern building is no guarantee of travel convenience. The authorities must urgently review what went wrong, fix the weaknesses and ensure the facility delivers the seamless cross-border travel that was...

China’s economy has delivered a welcome, if qualified, surprise. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.5 per cent in the third quarter, up from 4.3 per cent in the second. The figure beat the 4.4 per cent consensus of economists surveyed by Wind and lifted growth for the first nine months to 4.6 per cent, within Beijing’s full-year target range of 4.5 to 5 per cent. Besides the latest quarterly GDP figure, the revival of factory-gate prices is worth noting. The producer price index returned to...

Hong Kong’s civil engineering work is reputedly among the world’s best, as evidenced by the awe-inspiring infrastructure marvels and skyscrapers that have been built with exceptional efficiency and high standards across the city. These hard-earned credentials are not accidental but rooted in generations of professional practice and robust institutional safeguards and monitoring. Yet public confidence has been shaken by a series of scandals involving shoddy construction and maintenance work. From...

Hong Kong’s civil engineering work is reputedly among the world’s best, as evidenced by the awe-inspiring infrastructure marvels and skyscrapers that have been built with exceptional efficiency and high standards across the city. These hard-earned credentials are not accidental but rooted in generations of professional practice and robust institutional safeguards and monitoring. Yet public confidence has been shaken by a series of scandals involving shoddy construction and maintenance work. From...