The Culture, Sports & Tourism Bureau announced today the setting up of a co-ordination office to carry out planning and implementation work for the upcoming National Games, National Games for Persons with Disabilities and National Special Olympic Games. The National Games Coordination Office, led by three senior directorate officers, will work closely with the governments of Guangdong and the Macao Special Administration Region to co-organise the 15th National Games. The State Council announced in August 2021 that the 15th National Games are to be co-hosted in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau in 2025, the first time Hong Kong will have co-hosted the National Games. The three locations will also co-host the 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities and the 9th National Special Olympic Games after the 15th National Games are held. The Hong Kong SAR Organising Committee of the 15th National Games was formed in May, with the Chief Executive a
Overall consumer prices rose 1.4% in September year-on-year, smaller than the 1.6% growth in August, the Census & Statistics Department announced today.
Netting out the effects of the Government’s one-off relief measures, September’s underlying inflation rate went up 1% compared to a year earlier, also smaller than the 1.2% recorded in August.
Compared with September last year, price increases were seen in electricity, gas and water, clothing and footwear, transport, meals out and takeaway food, durable goods, basic food and miscellaneous services.
On the other hand, year-on-year decreases in miscellaneous goods, housing as well as alcoholic drinks and tobacco were recorded.
The Government noted that the underlying consumer price inflation rate eased to 1% in September as the effect of the upward adjustment in public housing rentals in the same month last year dissipated and the year-on-year increase in prices of meals out and takeaway food narrowed due to the base effect.
Meanwhile, pressures on many other consumer price index components remained modest.
Looking ahead, while overall inflationary pressures will likely increase in the near term alongside the continued economic recovery and rising import prices, the underlying inflation should remain largely moderate in the rest of the year as the local economy is still operating below capacity, it added.
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