The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPCSC) yesterday (August 31) adopted the “Decision on Issues Relating to the Selection of the Chief Executive (CE) of the HKSAR by Universal Suffrage and on the Method for Forming the Legco of the HKSAR in the Year 2016 (The Decision)”. The BPA supports the NPCSC’s decision…
In celebration of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, Dr Lo Wai-kwok, Vice Chairman of the BPA, and Mr Jimmy Kwok Chun-wah, BPA member and Chairman of the Sham Shui Po District Council, today (August 27) joined a group of young volunteers in paying visits to the Rainbow Old Aged Home and Yau Yat Chuen Care, as well as the Attention Home for the Elderly in Sham Shui Po.
Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) and the Sha Tin Rural Committee have joined hands to set up a Discount Food Store in a bid to help the community fight against inflation and to care for the disadvantaged.
On the surface, the Ice Bucket Challenge appears to be just another social-media-induced craze. Yet the global campaign has helped shine a light on people suffering from a rare and incurable degenerative illness that affects about 300 people in Hong Kong.
The Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) says “Bring it on!” to the Ice Bucket Challenge, the global campaign to raise funding for patients suffering from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
The HKSAR Government today (August 20) released a study report on retirement protection conducted by a research team led by Professor Nelson Chow Wing-sun, Chair Professor at the University of Hong Kong.
Some 500 individuals involving members and friends of the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) today (August 17) took part in a march for peace and democracy. The BPA leadership comprising Dr Peter Lam Kin-ngok, BPA Council Chairman, Mr Andrew Leung Kwan-yuen, BPA Chairman, and Mr Jeffery Lam Kin-fung, BPA Vice Chairman, led the march to symbolize taking the first step towards universal suffrage through peaceful and rational means.
The Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong (BPA) today (August 13) provided a platform for representatives from different segments of the community to voice their concerns on the threat of a blockade in Central.
Beijing loyalists and business groups want cap on number of chief executive nominees, but pan-dems say it will screen out popular choices.
Every Hong Kong voter will get to cast a ballot in the 2017 chief executive election. But what say will they have in nominating candidates? For second part of the Post’s debate series on electoral reform, we asked politicians, business leaders and academics for the best way to select candidates.
