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South China Morning Post
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium publishes seating chart, but is it enough to address concerns?
Hong Kong's Kai Tak Stadium has published a seating chart after concertgoers complained about obstructed views, with lawmakers calling for more transparency for a better audience experience at the newly opened 50,000-seat facility. Advertisement Fans who forked out large sums of money for tickets close to the stage at concerts of British band Coldplay earlier this month and Cantopop star Nicholas Tse Ting-fung, which began on Thursday, said seating arrangements needed to be more transparent. 'It would be best if tickets for seats with obstructed views were not put up for sale,' lawmaker Johnny Ng Kit-chong, who sits on the Legislative Council's culture panel, said on Friday. '[Selling them] is good for neither the performers nor the audience. The most important thing is the protection of consumers. They did not expect the tickets they bought would have obstructed views.' He also said that if such tickets had to be sold, they should be cheaper and a 'prerequisite' that obstructions were clearly stated. Advertisement Ng cited his own experience at one of Coldplay's concerts. He said that while his seat was free of obstructions, it was far from the stage and the screens of the live relay were small, noting that having larger ones could help.
South China Morning Post
03-04-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong lawmaker calls for support of city's Web3 sector after Tron founder flags fraud
Advertisement Hong Kong had 'a legal basis and a healthy environment' to protect international investors and the city's Web3 sector, Legislative Council member Johnny Ng Kit-chong wrote on Thursday in a blog post on X 'I have great confidence in Hong Kong's rule of law and our law-enforcement agencies,' Ng wrote. The lawmaker's assessment marks an effort to defend the reputation of Hong Kong's Web3 sector on the same day that Sun, founder of the Tron blockchain and a major Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur, accused local custody firm First Digital Trust of misappropriating funds of a stablecoin operator he has links to, while slamming Hong Kong's trust regulations. 'There always seems to be loopholes in the trust industry in Hong Kong, allowing circumvention of financial and banking regulations,' Sun said in a high-profile press conference in Hong Kong on Thursday. He argued that Hong Kong's reputation as a global financial centre is at stake. Hong Kong Legislative Council member Johnny Ng Kit-chong speaks at the Bitcoin Asia conference on May 9, 2024. Photo: Matt Haldane Sun alleged that First Digital Trust siphoned funds from Techteryx, the current operator of the TrueUSD stablecoin, to invest in the Aria Commodity Finance Fund in the Cayman Islands. Techteryx filed a complaint to the Hong Kong High Court last week, calling the case a 'large-scale' fraud.
