Hong Kong presided over a global task force meeting this week (29-30 October) in Washington DC, to set global standards for combating terrorist financing and to spread those standards globally. (full story)

International companies wanting to do business with the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong will have more opportunities to do so with the launch of new multilingual lead-in sites to the Internet portal of the Trade Development Council (TDC) at tdctrade.com. (full story)

Hong Kong’s domestic broadband penetration is one of the highest in the region, with 53 per cent of Internet users having high-speed access at home. (full story)