CareerConnect Expo to offer quality job information and tailored solutions for settling in (with photos/videos)

Unlock your career potential at careerconnect expo: explore job opportunities and expert advice on settling in

Hong Kong Talent Engage (HKTE) today (April 23) welcomes talent who are interested in coming to Hong Kong or have recently arrived in the city, stakeholders in various sectors who are concerned about talent development, non-local university students and members of the public to visit the CareerConnect Expo to be held on May 7 and 8 in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre concurrently with the Global Talent Summit · Hong Kong.

The Director of HKTE, Mr Anthony Lau, said, "Apart from organising the Summit to exchange experiences and discuss trends in talent development with partners around the world and in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), we will hold the Expo in tandem with the Summit to enable international, local and regional strategic enterprises and counterparts to present to participants and global talent the opportunities of Hong Kong and the Mainland as well as development prospects of various sectors."

HKTE will stage an exhibition area at the Expo to promote Hong Kong’s unique advantages and development opportunities, various talent admission schemes as well as HKTE's support services, coupled with experience sharing by incoming talent on settling in the city. Guangdong Province and the Macao Special Administrative Region will also introduce the latest manpower developments and opportunities of the GBA at their booths.

The Expo is anticipated to bring together nearly 100 public and private organisations as exhibitors, including HKTE partners (covering employment, accommodation, social and community networking, integrated settlement services, education, banking and finance, business and corporate services as well as telecommunications), the Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises, Invest Hong Kong, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Information Services Department, the Airport Authority Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, the Hong Kong Productivity Council, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the MTR Corporation Limited and the Hospital Authority.

Human resources agencies and recruitment platforms will introduce quality positions of various professions, including financial services, innovation and technology as well as financial technology in Hong Kong which are suitable for talent with diverse backgrounds, qualifications and experience. Talent who have recently arrived can also learn about relevant information on job searches, working or starting a business in Hong Kong as well as the latest skill demands of different sectors and professions. In addition, some exhibitors will provide visiting talent and their families with consultation services and settling-in solutions or offers, with a view to helping them move to Hong Kong, adapt smoothly and stay in the city for development.

The Expo will be held from 10am to 5.30pm at Hall 3F, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Admission is free. Visitors may register in advance through the Summit's website (www.hkengage.gov.hk/GlobalTalentSummit) and enter the Expo with a QR Code on the selected date. For the latest updates, please refer to the Summit's website or HKTE's social media. Enquiries may be sent via email to gts@hkengage.gov.hk.

CareerConnect Expo to offer quality job information and tailored solutions for settling in (with photos/video) Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

CareerConnect Expo to offer quality job information and tailored solutions for settling in (with photos/video) Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

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High-level meeting with japanese officials: urgent concerns over fukushima's nuclear contaminated water discharge

The Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Mr Tse Chin-wan, met the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Mr Takahashi Mitsuo, and the Consul-General of Japan in Hong Kong, Mr Kenichi Okada, today (May 3) upon request and discussed about the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water in Japan.

Mr Tse reiterated at the meeting that the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government has come to the view that there is currently no guarantee from the Japanese authorities that their purification and dilution system can operate continuously and effectively in the long term, and that the discharge will not pose any potential risks to food safety and marine ecology. Safeguarding food safety and public health in Hong Kong is the responsibility of the HKSAR Government, thus corresponding precautionary measures must be taken. The HKSAR Government will closely monitor developments of the discharge, so as to obtain more monitoring and scientific data in order to further examine the impact of the Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water discharge on food safety, and keep under review relevant counter measures. Should anomalies be detected, the Government does not preclude further tightening the scope of the import ban.

In response to the Japanese Government's earlier decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water at the Fukushima Nuclear PowerStation into the sea, the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene issued a Food Safety Order which prohibits all aquatic products, sea salt and seaweeds originating from the 10 metropolis/prefectures, namely Tokyo, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Chiba, Gunma, Tochigi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama, from being imported into and supplied in Hong Kong.For other aquatic products, sea salt, and unprocessed or processed seaweed from Japan that are not prohibited from being imported into Hong Kong, the Centre for Food Safety of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will conduct comprehensive radiological tests to verify that the radiation levels of these products do not exceed the guideline levels before they are allowed to be supplied in the market.

Besides, all vegetables, fruits, milk, milk beverages and dried milk originating from Fukushima are banned from importing into Hong Kong while such foods originating from the four prefectures nearby Fukushima, i.e. Ibaraki, Tochigi, Chiba and Gunma, are allowed to be imported on the condition that they are accompanied with a radiation certificate and an exporter certificate issued by the Japanese authority. Chilled or frozen game, meat and poultry, and poultry eggs originating from the above five prefectures are allowed to be imported on the condition that they are accompanied with a radiation certificate issued by the Japanese authority which shows the radiation levels do not exceed the guideline levels of the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

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