Coronavirus: Hong Kong post offices to reopen with shortened working hours,...
Letter, parcels and, crucially, thousands of packages of surgical masks that have piled up over the past week will soon be back on the move with the resumption of limited postal services on Monday.As...
View ArticleCoronavirus: thousands of Hong Kong hospital workers back strike to demand...
Thousands of Hong Kong doctors, nurses and hospital employees have voted for a strike which could begin as early as Monday, to press the government to close all borders with mainland China amid the...
View ArticleFears of coronavirus spreading in Hong Kong as local hospital staff back...
Thousands of Hong Kong’s public hospital doctors, nurses and other medical personnel have voted to go on strike from as early as Monday in a bid to force a total shutdown of the city’s borders with...
View ArticleCalls for street cleaners to get better protective gear, as rest of Hong Kong...
Street cleaner Yuen wears a surgical mask all day long, only taking it off during lunch break for a puff on his cigarette. The 67-year-old, who only gave his surname, said his company required all...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Working from home a new, occasionally frustrating, experience...
At 9 and 7 years of age, Mr Wong’s children can be forgiven for not quite grasping that their civil servant father is actually working on the laptop they see open on the dining room table these...
View ArticleHong Kong set to roll out more measures for residents going to mainland...
Hong Kong is set to roll out more measures for residents crossing the border to mainland China, an adviser to the government has said amid calls for drastic two-way control procedures to be put in...
View ArticleHong Kong’s largest quarantine site with 300 homes to be ready in one to two...
The largest quarantine site in Hong Kong is being built at full speed, with completion expected in one to two months as the need to isolate people grows amid the coronavirus outbreak, the Post has...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong hospital workers’ union to go ahead with strike...
Thousands of Hong Kong’s public hospital workers have decided to push ahead with a strike on Monday, demanding the government close the city’s borders with mainland China to shut out the new...
View ArticleIf a lower official can inspire public confidence in Hong Kong’s fight...
If a relatively unknown, lower-paid official can touch the hearts of Hongkongers with his courage and dedication to those he serves at a time of crisis, what does that say about his bosses at...
View ArticleCoronavirus: anger in Hong Kong education sector as return to work for staff...
At least two Hong Kong universities and many public schools are asking teachers and other staff to return to work on Monday although all classes remain suspended amid the coronavirus outbreak, sparking...
View ArticleSomething else may be spreading in Hong Kong amid coronavirus outbreak and...
As Hong Kong treads gingerly in the grip of the coronavirus outbreak, with most avoiding going out and office staff told to work from home, negative sentiments against one group of people are more...
View ArticlePangolin scale smugglers: a few culprits caught, but masterminds behind...
Sometime in the middle of 2017, Hong Kong businessman Wong Muk-nam disappeared without a trace.The 62-year-old owned a plastic trading factory in Xingtan, a township of Foshan in Guangdong, according...
View ArticleHong Kong government ‘considering’ new measures to further cut cross-border...
The Hong Kong government is “considering” new measures to further cut cross-border travel with mainland China, such as closing more checkpoints and reducing the opening hours of crossings, according to...
View ArticleHong Kong hospital strike kicks off as top doctor backs mainland China border...
More than 2,400 Hong Kong public hospital workers staged a strike on Monday morning as a top microbiologist agreed with their central demand that the government close the border with mainland China to...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam declares further border shutdowns to...
Hong Kong’s embattled leader has announced the closure of all but two border crossings with mainland China to shut out the coronavirus, with just the Shenzhen Bay joint checkpoint and Hong...
View ArticleCoronavirus: hundreds of domestic helpers unable to fly to Hong Kong after...
Hundreds of Filipino domestic workers have been barred from flying to Hong Kong, according to an employers’ group and recruitment agencies, after Manila issued a sweeping travel ban to prevent the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Singapore ‘won’t rule out’ extending travel ban to Hong Kong
Singapore would not rule out further travel restrictions if the deadly coronavirus situation worsened, its government said on Monday, when asked if its ban might widen to travellers from Hong...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong private sector doctors cross picket lines to help at...
Amid a manpower crunch worsened by a strike of Hong Kong health care workers, more than 135 doctors from the Association of Private Medical Specialists of Hong Kong, a local union representing about...
View ArticleCoronavirus: 30 Hong Kong families under home quarantine to get tracking...
Thirty Hong Kong families returning from Hubei province, centre of the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China, will need to wear electronic tracking wristbands at home as rising quarantine needs force...
View ArticleFlat viewings dwindle, transaction volume slumps as coronavirus infects some...
The coronavirus outbreak is hurting Hong Kong’s residential property market as flat viewings dwindle and transaction volume shrinks in private housing estates where some infected residents were...
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