New York dragon boat festival achieves milestone
This year's Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York hit a milestone as it celebrated its 20th anniversary.

A record 173 teams from across the United States, as well as from Canada and Italy, took part in this year's 20th Annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in New York(HKDBF-NY) held August 7-8 at Meadows Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park.

Second-quarter GDP up 6.5%
Hong Kong's second-quarter GDP rose 6.5% compared with a year earlier, following a growth of 8% in the first quarter. On a seasonally adjusted quarter-to-quarter comparison, real GDP expanded by 1.4%, according to the Half-yearly Economic Report 2010 released by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government on August 13.

Hong Kong-Guangdong cooperation furthered
Hong Kong Chief Secretary for Administration Henry Tang and the Vice-Governor of Guangdong Province, Liu Kun, co-chaired the 15th Working Meeting of the Hong Kong/Guangdong Cooperation Joint Conference in Hong Kong on August 3.

Greater Hong Kong-Guangdong cooperation in IP awareness
The Guangdong/Hong Kong Expert Group on Protection of Intellectual Property Rights, which held its ninth meeting in Hong Kong on July 30, decided to step up cooperation to raise the level of intellectual property (IP) awareness among the public and enterprises in Guangdong and Hong Kong. Cooperation projects for 2010-2011 will include ...

Hong Kong ad agencies win 10 international awards
On July 29, Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Rita Lau met the creative teams of Leo Burnett Hong Kong and Grey Hong Kong to congratulate them on winning a total of 10 awards, including two gold awards, at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, a major annual international event for the advertising industry.