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He was a young man who seemed in search of something — meaning to his life, perhaps. He traveled on his search through the Middle East and Eastern Europe into Greece, a journey he chronicled in a series of blog posts from May 7 to September 9, 2007.

Only recently, twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ho Hing-sang had decided to settle down — stop bouncing between part-time jobs and traveling with his girlfriend. He got a job as an IT technician at an international news agency in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong will step up random temperature tests on inbound travelers, and an effective test for the deadly H7N9 virus will be made available at border checkpoints in a week or two, health officials and academics said on Wednesday.

Hong Kong raised its alert level against the newly discovered deadly H7N9 influenza virus as four more cases were confirmed in Jiangsu province on Tuesday evening.

But health authorities reassured the public an existing mechanism to deal with the situation is already in place and that the city has large supplies of a drug for effective treatment of the disease.

Hong Kong needs a universal pension plan, which should pay each retiree HK$4,000 per month, a leading scholar commissioned by the government to study the issue of retirement protection for local people told China Daily in an exclusive interview on Wednesday.

Though the city’s top court upheld constitutionality of the long-running policy to deny permanent residency to foreign domestic helpers (FDHs), the government must look elsewhere to stop mainland babies born in Hong Kong from earning residency status.

Asian movies have the potential to compete with Hollywood blockbusters, if backed by the same comprehensive worldwide distribution system, said Wilfred Wong Ying-wai, chairman of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited.

Wong stressed confidence in the growing demand for Asian movies, given that more than 50 percent of Asians are under 30 and the majority are frequent cinemagoers.

One child in ten lives in a single-parent family in today’s Hong Kong. It’s part of a growing trend that affects the very fabric of society. With the traditional Chinese family breaking down, the income of single mothers actually declined over a ten-year time span, excerbating the city’s growing wealth gap. In the first of our series of reports on the changing face of the city, Li Likui examines the role of education as a critical medium to help those in need.

The opposition’s plan to occupy the Central business district of Hong Kong is a scheme to turn the SAR into an “independent political entity” with the help of foreign forces, a veteran politician wrote on Thursday.

Ng Hong-mun, former Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC), made the criticism in an article printed in Ming Pao newspaper.

Wilfred Wong Ying-wai, chairman of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, speaks at the panel discussion of China Daily Asia Leadership Roundtable: Challenges, Opportunities and Partnership for Asia’s Film Industry, watched by William Pfeiffer, CEO of Dragongate Entertainment, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Wednesday.

Hong Kong’s chief executive said on Tuesday that customs officers will learn from an incident in which they pressed unnecessary charges against a woman from the Chinese mainland who tried to take four cans of milk-flavored rice powder and two tins of infant milk powder over the border.

Customs authorities in Hong Kong admitted on Monday that they pressed unnecessary charges against the woman because they had misunderstood a newly enforced limit on the amount of baby formula allowed to be taken into the mainland.

President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang called upon Hong Kong people on Monday to pull together and make concerted efforts to build a bright future for the city.

The appeal for unity was made by the two newly elected State leaders when they met with Hong Kong and Macao chief executives in two separate meetings in Beijing.

President Xi, who met the two SAR leaders in the morning, urged Hong Kong people to rally behind Leung Chun-ying’s administration because “many hands make light work”.