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A new cross-boundary Wealth Management Connect Pilot Scheme is set to boost the financial services industry in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) and reinforce Hong Kong's role as the leading offshore Renminbi hub. It will become the fourth cross-boundary investment channel between Hong Kong and the Mainland, after those links in the stock and bond markets. It will also be the first scheme focussing on the GBA.  Press Release.

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and Create Hong Kong are delighted to support the Asian Film Festival in Vic, near Barcelona, again this year. The Festival will be screening five Hong Kong productions.  More information.

InvestHK is pleased to invite you to the Webinar "Europe meets Asia".  As part of the virtual StartmeupHK Festival, this event will give you first-hand insights about the European and Hong Kong start-up ecosystems and what makes European entrepreneurs successful in Asia.  More information.

The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels and Create Hong Kong are delighted to work with the Far Eastern Film Festival in Udine again this year, to bring six very different Hong Kong films to film lovers in Italy.  More information.

Mr Eddie Cheung, the Special Representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the EU, and Mr Han van Midden, the Mayor of Roosendaal, the Netherlands, elbow bumped and exchanged souvenirs at the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels. They exchanged best wishes for the people of Hong Kong and Roosendaal, hoping things will be back to a "new normal" soon after COVID-19 pandemic.  More.

Photographs captured with infrared (IR) cameras reveal scenes the human eye cannot see and expose a surreal Hong Kong.  More.

Hong Kong's museum of 20th and 21st century visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District has announced that Hong Kong-based artist Samson Young is the winner of the inaugural Sigg Prize (formerly the Chinese Contemporary Art Award).  The jury was impressed by his vivid, multifaceted approach to sound and performance.  More info.

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 has raised concerns worldwide. For details of the prevention measures being implemented in Hong Kong, as well as the latest situation of novel coronavirus infection in Hong Kong, please visit the website Centre for Health Protection of the Hong Kong Department of Health.

In this issue: Financial Secretary in Luxembourg for AIIB meeting - Greater Bay Area Development - Reopening of Hong Kong Museum of Art - Chief Executive's Policy Adddress - Fourth Belt and Road Summit - Business Events - Hong Kong films at seven international festivals in Europe - New Special Representative for Hong Kong Economic and Trade Affairs to the EU...

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