Hong Kong to slash over 10,000 civil service posts by mid-2027: minister

More than 10,000 posts in the Hong Kong government will be cut by the end of Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu’s current term in June 2027, with close to 60 per cent of these deletions being junior roles and about 3 per cent at the senior level. Civil service minister Ingrid Yeung Ho Poi-yan said on Monday the move was not “fattening the top but thinning the bottom” and was reasonable because the civil service had far more frontline staff. Yeung was briefing legislators on her bureau’s budget...

By Ng Kang-chung