The eastern entrance to the Causeway Bay MTR at Exit D, the one that opens toward the Victoria Park perimeter, had police flanking both sides of the gate by 9 p.m. on Thursday. Officers detained an unspecified number of people near the park in the 24 hours around June 4. The deployment typically holds 72 hours. Saturday movement through that grid: the Hysan Avenue approach from Leighton Road is the practical route. The MTR board said normal service; the street outside it did not.

Temperature sits around 30 degrees through Saturday and Sunday, humidity at the level that makes the distinction between indoor and outdoor meaningful. Scattered showers Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. No typhoon signal is in effect. Typhoon season opened June 1.

The HKJC runs at Sha Tin on Sunday, gates at 12:30, first race at 1:15. Full crowd expected.

John Lee returned from Central Asia on Thursday with HK$12.87 billion in signed agreements and a 30-day visa-free arrangement with Uzbekistan. Thirty documents. The Finance Bureau will be asked on Monday how many of those are enforceable commitments versus letters of intent; the announcement does not say.

The civil service unions submitted a 4.12% pay rise claim this week. The claim lands at the Civil Service Bureau. The government's counter-offer typically comes in late June; the HK$11 billion surplus figure from the February budget is still in active circulation, and the unions know it.

For families: the Hong Kong Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui East runs weekend interactive sessions on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Free for children under twelve. The Wan Chai Government Offices walk-in health centre on Queen's Road East has been running 40 minutes on Saturday mornings; the clinics in the Causeway Bay grid are slower than usual this weekend.

Exit D clears by Monday. The FSDC files its quarterly wealth-hub metrics that same morning, the ranking John Lee cited from Astana on Thursday.