HK’s GDP forecast

BASED on Hong Kong’s current situation and outlook, the economic situation in Hong Kong will still be grim during the rest of the year, said Paul Chan, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region’s financial secretary, Thursday.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has lowered the GDP growth forecast for 2019 to 0-1 percent year on year. At the beginning of this year, the HKSAR Government predicted that the annual GDP growth rate would be 2-3 percent.

However, the GDP growth rate of the first two quarters were 0.5 and 0.6 percent, respectively.

Wrongful statement

THE spokesperson for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) made a wrongful statement on Hong Kong that contradicts the facts, the Chinese Mission to the U.N. at Geneva said Tuesday.

In a Spokesperson’s Remarks issued Tuesday afternoon, the Chinese mission said that the U.N. rights body’s statement interferes in what is happening in Hong Kong, which is China’s domestic affairs, and sends the wrong signal to the violent criminal offenders.

“China expresses its deep dissatisfaction and firm opposition,” the Chinese mission said.

Online gun sales

POLICE in North China’s Hebei Province said Thursday that they had netted 26 suspects in a crackdown on an online gun-selling network.