2025 in Hong Kong
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| Executive branch | |||
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| Photo | Name | Position | Term |
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John Lee | Chief Executive | 1 July 2022 – present |
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Eric Chan | Chief Secretary for Administration | 1 July 2022 – present |
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Paul Mo-po Chan | Financial Secretary | 16 January 2017 – present |
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Paul Ting-Kok Lam | Secretary for Justice | 1 July 2022 – present |
| Legislative branch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo | Name | Position | Term |
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Andrew Leung | President of the Legislative Council | 12 October 2016 – 31 December 2025 |
| Judicial branch | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo | Name | Position | Term |
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Andrew Cheung | Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal | 11 January 2021 – present |
Events
January
- 1 January – A crash involving five vehicles along the West Kowloon Highway near the Olympian City complex leaves three people dead and four others injured.[1]
February
- 4 February – The United States Postal Service indefinitely suspends its acceptance of parcels from China and Hong Kong.[2]
- 27 February – Former Legislative Council member Lam Cheuk-ting is sentenced to three years' imprisonment on charges of inciting violence during the 2019 Yuen Long attack.[3]
March
- 11 March – Social worker Jackie Chen is convicted of rioting during the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests.[4]
- 31 March – The United States imposes sanctions on Justice Secretary Paul Lam, security office director Dong Jingwei, police commissioner Raymond Siu and two deputies, and Committee for Safeguarding National Security secretary-general Sonny Au, for their role in persecuting exiled pro-democracy activists.[5]
April
- 10 April – British MP Wera Hobhouse, a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, is denied entry to Hong Kong for undisclosed reasons.[6]
May
- 30 May – Signing of the Convention on the Establishment of the International Organisation for Mediation (IOMed).[7]
June
- 12 June – The homes of six people are raided in the first publicly known joint operation by Hong Kong and mainland Chinese authorities under the 2020 Hong Kong national security law.[8]
- 29 June – The pro-democracy League of Social Democrats announces its dissolution.[9]
July
- 16 July – The government introduces the Registration of Same-sex Partnerships Bill, which proposes to grant limited legal rights to same-sex couples who have entered into marriages or civil unions overseas.[10]
- 20 July – Tropical Storm Wipha hits Hong Kong, causing flight cancellations, fallen trees, and displacement of over 250 people.[11]
- 23 July – High Court Judge Russell Coleman orders the suspension of regulations criminalising the use of bathrooms designated for the opposite sex following a petition by a transgender applicant.[12]
- 25 July – The government places a HK$200,000 bounty on 19 members of the overseas pro-democracy organization Hong Kong Parliament.[13]
August
- 4 August – Hong Kong cancels passports and bans financial support for 16 overseas activists under the national security law.[14]
- 13 August – A court in Hong Kong convicts former J-pop idol Kenshin Kamimura for sexually molesting a female interpreter and related incidents during a fan meeting in the territory in March.[15]
September
- 9–14 September – The Hong Kong Open Badminton competition is held.[16]
- 9 September – High Court Judge Russell Coleman rules in favor of a petition by a lesbian couple seeking to be recognised as the parents of a child born after undergoing reciprocal in vitro fertilization in South Africa.[17]
- 10 September – The Legislative Council votes against a bill that would have granted limited rights to same-sex couples who were married overseas.[18]
- 18 September – A World War II-era bomb weighing about 450 kg (990 lb) is discovered at a construction site in Quarry Bay, forcing the evacuation of 6,000 residents.[19]
- 24 September – Typhoon Ragasa passes near Hong Kong, injuring at least 90 people.[20]
October
- 15 October – The Legislative Council passes a bill that would require operating licences from online ride-hailing services.[21]
- 20 October – Emirates SkyCargo Flight 9788, a Boeing 747 operated by Air ACT on behalf of Emirates SkyCargo, crashes into a airport security vehicle at Hong Kong International Airport before falling into the sea, killing the two people on board the vehicle.[22]
November
- 26 November – 168 people are killed in a fire that sweeps through several apartment blocks of the Wang Fuk Court estate in Tai Po.[23]
December
- 7 December – 2025 Hong Kong legislative election[24]
- 14 December – The pro-democracy Democratic Party announces its dissolution.[25]
- 15 December – Media magnate and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai is convicted on charges of violating the national security law.[26]
- 18 December – Around 1 billion yen (HK$50 million) is stolen following a robbery targeting four suitcases carried by two employees of a Japanese cryptocurrency and luxury goods company in Sheung Wan.[27]
Holidays
- 1 January, Wednesday – New Year's Day
- 29 January, Wednesday – Lunar New Year's Day
- 30 January, Thursday – The second day of Lunar New Year
- 31 January, Friday – The third day of Lunar New Year
- 4 April, Friday – Ching Ming Festival
- 18 April, Friday – Good Friday
- 19 April, Saturday – The day following Good Friday
- 21 April, Monday – Easter Monday
- 1 May, Thursday – Labour Day
- 5 May, Monday – Buddha's Birthday
- 31 May, Saturday – Tuen of The Festival
- 1 July, Tuesday – Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
- 1 October, Wednesday – National Day
- 7 October, Tuesday – The day following the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
- 29 October, Wednesday – Chung Yeung Festival
- 25 December, Thursday – Christmas Day
- 26 December, Friday – The first weekday after Christmas Day
