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Tse Chin-wan joins Macau eco forum

Secretary for Environment & Ecology Tse Chin-wan today attended the 2024 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition in Macau and officiated at its opening ceremony with local officials.   This year’s exhibition was held with the theme “Reaching the Dual Carbon Goals through Green Transformation”.   The Environment & Ecology Bureau’s exhibition booth presented innovative initiatives adopted by Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government departments and Hong Kong industries, including smart technologies for environmental enforcement, environmental impact assessment, energy conservation, green transportation, waste recycling as well as food waste management technologies.   In addition to touring the exhibition and exchanging views with Hong Kong exhibitors, Mr Tse paid a courtesy call on Macau Secretary for Transport & Public Works Raimundo Arrais do Rosário and met Guangzhou Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau Director Wang Ba

Oct inflation up 1.7%

Overall consumer prices rose 1.7% in October year-on-year, larger than the 1.4% growth in September, the Census & Statistics Department announced today.   Netting out the effects of the Government’s one-off relief measures, October’s underlying inflation rate went up 1.1% compared to a year earlier, marginally larger than the 1% recorded in September.   Compared with October last year, price increases were seen in electricity, gas and water, clothing and footwear, transport, meals out and takeaway food, durable goods, basic food, miscellaneous services and alcoholic drinks and tobacco.   On the other hand, year-on-year decreases in miscellaneous goods and housing were recorded.   The Government noted that the prices of energy-related items and certain individual items in such major consumer price index components as clothing and footwear and transport saw more visible year-on-year increases.   Price pressures on many other major components remained modest.    Looking ahead, while inflation pressure may go up somewhat in the near term, alongside a faster increase in import prices and the economic recovery, the underlying inflation should remain largely in check as domestic cost pressures are still tame, it added.
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