Hong Kong International Airport is in the midst of expansion works to build more aircraft parking stands, with its Midfield Concourse beginning operations in December.

A ballot box is opened at the District Council election in November.

The Chief Executive, Mr C Y Leung (left), meets the President of Israel, Mr Reuven Rivlin, in Jerusalem in October.

The Chief Executive meets the President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mr Rafael Reif, at Government House in November.

The Chief Secretary for Administration, Mrs Carrie Lam (left), admires accessories with Ms Linda Dessau (right), the Governor of Victoria, Australia, at PMQ in October.

The Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang (left), meets the Chair of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, Dr Janet Yellen, in Lima, Peru, in October.

British Minister of State for Justice Lord Faulks hands replicas of the 1217 Magna Carta and the 1215 King John's Writ to the Secretary for Justice, Mr Rimsky Yuen, SC (left), at the Magna Carta 800 Global Tour – Hong Kong in November.
(Photo courtesy of British Consulate-General Hong Kong)

Hong Kong draw with China in a football World Cup qualifying match at Mong Kok Stadium in November.

The Audi Hong Kong to Vietnam Race, at 1,083km the longest offshore Category One race in Asia, in October.

Wu Siu-hong becomes the first Hong Kong competitor to win the World Bowling Cup in Las Vegas in November.
(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Tenpin Bowling Congress)

Ng On-yee wins the World Ladies Snooker Championship in Leeds in April.
(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Billiard Sports Control Council)

The Hong Kong Ladies Open Golf Championship, the first world-class professional ladies golf staged in the territory, in Fanling in June.
(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Golf Association)

Participants of the debut two-day Hong Kong Cyclothon in October at the turnround on the Tsing Ma Bridge.

A 300-metre 'Slide the City Hong Kong' water attraction draws the crowds at Kai Tak in August.