Following is the speech by the Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Mr Kevin Choi, at the opening ceremony of the Asia-Pacific Regional International Astronomical Union (IAU) Meeting 2026 today (May 4):<\/p>\n
Distinguished guests, esteemed scientists and astronomers, ladies and gentlemen,<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Good morning. It is a distinct honour to join you today for the opening ceremony of the Asia-Pacific Regional International Astronomical Union Meeting… Following is the speech by the Permanent Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry, Mr Kevin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f.jpg",1600,1066,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-1536x1023.jpg",1536,1023,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f.jpg",1600,1066,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231119-speech-by-psiti-at-opening-ceremony-of-asia-pacific-regional-international-astronomical-un6a25864ebbd8f-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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