Deadline approaching: enter your private property for best landscape award 2024 by may 17
Nominations for the Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2024 organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) remain open until May 17. Interested developer, management company, design company, owners' organisation, landscape or horticultural company of the property should grasp the opportunity to submit nomination with prior consent from the owners' representative group of the property concerned. Application is free of charge.
The award aims to commend private property developments that excel in landscape design and horticultural maintenance. It also aims to bring about sustained environmental improvements in private property developments and encourage private bodies to incorporate more quality green elements into the planning and management of horticultural projects for the benefit of such developments.
The award is presented in five categories. Each category is divided into three groups according to the age of the property. For details, please refer to the LCSD webpage www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/green/property/index.html. The prospectus and nomination form can be downloaded from the webpage.
Completed nomination forms together with all necessary documents must reach the Secretariat of the Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2024 on or before May 17 through the following ways:
*By email: gcs@lcsd.gov.hk (no later than 5pm on the last day for submission)
*By post: 11/F, Leisure and Cultural Services Headquarters, 1-3 Pai Tau Street, Sha Tin (the date of postmark will be taken as the date of receipt)
*In person: 11/F, Leisure and Cultural Services Headquarters, 1-3 Pai Tau Street, Sha Tin (no later than 5pm on the last day for submission)
For enquiries, please call 2601 8026.
The Best Landscape Award for Private Property Development 2024 is organised by the LCSD and co-organised by the Home Affairs Department, the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects, the Institute of Horticulture (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, the Professional Green Building Council and the Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies.
Breaking news: hong kong and peru seal game-changing free trade deal
The Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, Mr Algernon Yau, today (May 16, Arequipa time) met with the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Ms Elizabeth Galdo Marín, and jointly announced the substantial conclusion of negotiations of the free trade agreement (FTA) between Hong Kong and Peru on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting in Arequipa, Peru.
"The negotiations, which began in 2023, cover trade in goods, trade in services (including e-commerce), investment and other related areas. I am pleased to note that our shared objectives in achieving a high-quality and comprehensive bilateral FTA are met," Mr Yau said.
"Peru is Hong Kong's important trading partner in Latin America. The FTA will enhance the trade and investment ties between the two sides, provide Hong Kong products, enterprises and investors with legal certainty and better access to the Peruvian market, and bring mutual benefits to our two economies," he added.
The two sides aim to finish the few remaining issues and the respective internal procedures with a view to signing the FTA within this year. Details of the agreement will then be announced.
In 2023, Peru ranked fifth among Hong Kong's merchandise trading partners in Latin America. The total merchandise trade between Hong Kong and Peru amounted to HK$5,231 million in 2023 and grew at an average annual rate of four per cent from 2019 to 2023.
Hong Kong has so far signed eight FTAs with 20 economies, including the Mainland of China, New Zealand, the member states of the European Free Trade Association (i.e. Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland), Chile, Macao, the member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (i.e. Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam), Georgia and Australia. All FTAs have entered into force.
In addition to the FTA with Peru, Hong Kong will continue to actively expand economic and trade network, such as seeking early accession to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and exploring FTAs or investment agreements with other potential partners in the Middle East and other regions along the Belt and Road.
Hong Kong and Peru substantially conclude free trade agreement negotiations Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Hong Kong and Peru substantially conclude free trade agreement negotiations Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
