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Question – Mainland pregnant women giving birth in Hong Kong (Jeffrey Lam)

The number of cases of “doubly non-permanent resident pregnant” (DNRP) women giving birth in Hong Kong has been increasing year after year. As a result, Hong Kong’s healthcare services are under great pressure, and problems such as insufficient school places have also surfaced one after another.

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BPA brings fun to Tai Po in Chinese New Year

To enhance the festive atmosphere of the Year of the Snake, three members of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) today (February 12) showed up in Tai Po as the Chinese legendary God of Good Fortune, the God of High Rank and the God of Prosperity and distributed “lai-see” (red packets) to

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Question – Competitiveness of Hong Kong’s travel and tourism industry (Abraham Shek)

According to the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2011, Hong Kong had an overall ranking of 12 among 139 countries and places in the Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index in 2011, which is two places behind Singapore.

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Question – Crimes in relation to social networking on Internet (Lau Wong Fat)

Making acquaintances on the Internet has become increasingly common. It has been reported that there is an increasing number of lawbreakers who made female acquaintances (with quite a number of them being underage girls) through social networking websites, then swindled and threatened them, and even sexually assaulted them.

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BPA opens stall in Sha Tin Chinese New Year Fair

The stall of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) in the Sha Tin Chinese New Year Fair was officially opened today (February 5) by a team of BPA leaders in the presence of senior government officials. Officiating at the opening ceremony were BPA members in the Legislative Council Mr Andrew Leung, Mr

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Residential units produced by private sector projects (Abraham Shek)

Will the Government inform this Council of the respective numbers of residential units produced from projects undertaken by the private sector in each of the years from 2002 to 2011 on sites involving applications for (i) lease modification, (ii) land exchange and (iii) private treaty grant?

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BPA website keeps the public posted

A group of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) members has staged a publicity blitz to mark the launch of the Alliance’s website today (January 30). Dressed in their uniform T-shirt with the QR Code, BPA Legislative Council members Mr Andrew Leung, Mr Lau Wong-fat, Mr Jeffrey Lam, Mr Abraham Razack, Mr

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Food discount project to ease people’s burden

A community care project by the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) and the Sha Tin Rural Committee to provide affordable food to needy people was officially launched in Sha Tin today (January 26). Under the project, a venue on loan from the Sha Tin Rural Committee was transformed into a food market

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BPA responds to 2013 Policy Address

A number of proposals from the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) have been adopted by the Chief Executive, Mr C Y Leung, in his Policy Address “Seek Change, Maintain Stability, Serve the People with Pragmatism” delivered today (January 16)…

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BPA Inauguration Ceremony – Speech by Dr.Peter Lam, Chairman of the Board of Governors

Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive, the Honorable Mr. Leung Chun Ying, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government, the Honorable Mr. Lin Wu, Guests and Friends, Good afternoon. Overlooking the Victoria Harbour, under the Lion Rock, here we gather to celebrate the birth of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong

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