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Visitors to Hong Kong, July 2026 (ImmD) Total 4,504,241 ↑2.6% from July 2025 Mainland visitors 3,604,642 ↑2.7% Other visitors 899,599 ↑2.0% January-July: Total 31,218,763 visitors ↑11.4% y-o-y Mainland visitors 24,144,695 ↑13.4% Other visitors 7,074,068 ↑5.1%

July 2026 was Hong Kong's second wettest July ever (since records began in 1884)

In tennis news, 22-year old Coleman Wong 🇭🇰 will play in his maiden ATP Tour semifinal in Los Cabos, Mexico, facing Arthur Gea 🇫🇷 (Sat 09:30HKT) for a berth in the final. • Wong will end the week ranked in the top 100 for the first time in his career www.scmp.com/sport/tennis...

Wong makes double slice of history, into top 100 and first ATP Tour semi-finalColeman Wong beats Jenson Brooksby in straight sets to reach the last four of the Mifel Open in Mexico.www.scmp.com

This week's obituary in The Economist is a good one

Taiwan's GDP for 2Q2026 increased 12.92% versus the year before, resulting in a 1H2026 increase of 13.72%, the largest increase in 50 years • Private consumption for 2Q rose 5.88% y-o-y • Overall investment for 2Q rose 15.14% y-o-y www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Hong Kong gov't recorded a 3-month surplus of HK$12.8 billion as of June 30, thanks to issuing HK$41.9 billion in gov't bonds. Revenues HK$163.9B Expenditures HK$185.5B Bond proceeds HK$41.9B Bond repayments HK$7.5B Fiscal reserves: HK$678.4 billion www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

UEFA + CONCACAF + AFC = 136 out of 211 confederations

Hong Kong registered a 4.3% increase in GDP for 2Q 2026 (vs 5.9% for 1Q) By component: • Private consumption ↑2.9% • Gov’t consumption ↑0.5% • Investment ↑4.6% • Exports of goods ↑28.8% … of services ↑3.4% • Imports of goods ↑29.3% … of services ↑2.8%

Bad news everyone. I've started a blog www.kjoules.org

The NumberwangRandom musings about random things, inspired by the news and stats in Hong Kongwww.kjoules.org

Remember the Kininmonths? They were part of this so-called "2036 Working Group" who were so ridiculously delusional that they wrote *monthly* opinion articles to bring the Olympics in Hong Kong, hoping you'd ignore they work in the construction and infrastructure sector (1 /2)

Based on rainfall data up to 15:00 today, July 2026 will end up as the second rainiest July in Hong Kong since records began in 1884

Look, kids! Another SCMP opinion article from a delusional buffoon who wants Hong Kong to host the Olympics

Can't wait to try out some of that fast charging cum

Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Influenza update, week ending Jul 25 2026 🚨 Week 4 of summer flu season • Trend: ↑ • 44 severe cases (↑17), 26 deaths (↑12) • Hospital admission rates for flu: 0.67 per 10K population (up from 0.61); approaching elevated levels • Lab surveillance positivity rate: 10.65% (up from 9.70%)

Hong Kong 🇭🇰 Covid-19 update, week ending Jul 25 2026 • Trend: Peaking? • 669 cases reported (up from 622; ↑8%) • 17 severe cases ↓7, 4 deaths ↑2 • 25 outbreaks (↓10), including 18 from elderly residential care homes (↓4) • Wastewater surveillance: ↓9.5%

Hong Kong Broken Water Main of the Week 📍 Tuen Mun Government Secondary School & 4 nearby estates ⏱️ Tues night to Wed morning, and again since Wed 11pm 🤔 Repairs are “complicated” due to a dense network of underground utilities news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/comp...

Race to resume water supply to leak-hit Tuen Mun area - RTHKThe Water Supplies Department said it expects to gradually restore supply to areas in Tuen Mun by 7pm on Thursday. Suppl...news.rthk.hk

He should thank his lucky stars he wasn't caned

A Taiwanese man was sentenced to 12 years 4 months in jail for trafficking 890g of cocaine into Hong Kong, marking serial plagiarist Judge Wilson Chan's final case. • Chan was mainly assigned narcotics cases since his 1st reprimand, which don't require written judgments www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Taiwanese man jailed for 12 years in embattled Hong Kong judge’s last caseJudge Wilson Chan hands down prison sentence in drug trafficking case, after being told to retire over repeated judicial plagiarism.www.scmp.com

With oil prices at around US$90 a barrel, the Hong Kong’s taxi and light bus owners’ associations are calling on the government to extend the LPG subsidy scheme which ends this month … www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...

Extend fuel subsidy or watch costs go up, Hong Kong taxi, minibus drivers warnTwo-month liquefied petroleum gas subsidy scheme to expire on Friday, with operators warning monthly costs to rise by up to 33 per cent.www.scmp.com

Shares of Zhongji Innolight fell sharply in its Hong Kong debut, after the Chinese maker of data-centre optical parts based in Shandong province raised HK$53.4 billion in the city's biggest share sale this year. • Innolight (3308:HK) fell $99.00 (↓10.1%) to $881.00 as of 1:00pm