{"id":134516,"date":"2025-05-31T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=134516"},"modified":"2025-05-31T13:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:01:02","slug":"govt-has-rethink-on-age-limit-for-overseas-technicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=134516","title":{"rendered":"Govt has rethink on age limit for overseas technicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1806891_1_L_20250530124906.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Electricians, lift technicians, seafarers, aircraft maintenance workers and AI specialists who move to Hong Kong under a planned expansion of a talent programme will have to be under 40, and not under 35 as previously suggested. <\/p>\n<p>The planned &#8220;new channels&#8221; under an existing talent scheme were announced in John Lee&#8217;s chief executive policy address last October&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1806891-20250530.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricians, lift technicians, seafarers, aircraft mai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}