Don’t take away summer holiday, say Hong Kong teachers amid coronavirus upheaval
A pro-establishment teachers’ union joined primary school heads on Friday to call on the Hong Kong government not to postpone or cancel the summer holidays, after the education secretary mooted the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong pledges HK$25 billion in cash handouts for groups...
The Hong Kong government has pledged a raft of handouts totalling HK$25 billion to businesses and vulnerable groups reeling from the coronavirus outbreak and offered direct subsidies for firms to make...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong tourist arrival numbers go into free fall amid...
Hong Kong’s tourist arrival numbers have gone into free fall this month, dropping to a daily average of below 3,000 from about 100,000 in January, after temporary cross-border restrictions were put in...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong confirms three new cases, as hospital staff say...
Hong Kong reported three more confirmed coronavirus infections on Friday, bringing the city’s total to 56, even as evidence emerged that some residents recently returned from mainland China were...
View ArticleFilipino workers stranded in Manila ask World Court to overturn Duterte’s...
More than 1,000 Filipinos employed in Hong Kong but banned from going there by Manila over the Covid-19 outbreak have asked the World Court to pressure the Philippine government to let them return to...
View ArticleHow to make your own mask: Hong Kong scientists reveal temporary solution for...
Scientists in Hong Kong have invented a cheap and easy way to make home-made masks as the city, gripped by fear over the deadly coronavirus, suffers from long queues and price-gouging over its...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong Disneyland to lend vacant sites to government for...
Hong Kong Disneyland has agreed to lend vacant sites to the government to build coronavirus quarantine facilities, although there was no immediate plan to bring residents stranded in Wuhan back before...
View ArticleCoronavirus: time to admit that like flu, Covid-19 is here to stay?
Doctor Cameron Kaiser, head of public health in California’s Riverside County, population 2.4 million, said there was much uncertainty when his team was tasked with quarantining the first group of...
View ArticleAfter thousands stranded at sea, coronavirus set to hit cruise industry
Hongkonger Dr Lam Kwing-tong and his wife Lau So-kuen have not left their room on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship for more than a week, and are too scared to step out of it. And the closest the...
View ArticleToo close for comfort: what impact will the coronavirus have on social...
Anybody living in Hong Kong can tell you straight up that it is not a place for people with claustrophobia. Not only is it one of the most densely populated cities in the world — boasting nearly 6,700...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkongers evacuated from infected Tsing Yi housing block...
More than 100 residents evacuated from a public housing estate in Hong Kong where coronavirus cases have been confirmed returned home on Saturday after tests revealed they were not infected.Four people...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong doctors and nurses working in Shenzhen hospital risk...
A Hong Kong-run hospital in Shenzhen is in talks with mainland Chinese authorities over a plan to send a team of doctors and nurses including Hongkongers to treat patients in Wuhan, the epicentre of...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong government allows face-to-face teaching in...
Hong Kong’s education authorities have allowed teachers at international schools to meet with students on campus to help them with coursework despite the citywide closure of schools until at least...
View ArticleCoronavirus: no new confirmed cases in Hong Kong but health officials say no...
Hong Kong is having a rare day on Saturday of no new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus as the tally stayed at 56 infections but health officials said there was no reason to believe the outbreak...
View ArticleCoronavirus: protesters arrested as light rail station vandalised during...
Hong Kong police made multiple arrests on Saturday as a peaceful march against the government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak turned violent.Demonstrators set fire to a card machine and threw...
View ArticleCoronavirus: three from Hong Kong who sparked Taiwan manhunt fined for...
Three Hongkongers who sparked a manhunt in Taiwan after flouting coronavirus quarantine rules have each been fined NT$70,000 (US$2,330).Taiwan has imposed restrictions on people from Hong Kong and...
View ArticleCoronavirus: mask production lines could be running within weeks, though Hong...
Hong Kong’s manufacturers say they will soon have the equipment necessary to produce 10 million medical masks a month from March – four times the government’s output – as the city continues to struggle...
View ArticleAmid price hikes for mainland produce during coronavirus outbreak, Hong Kong...
Hongkongers are used to standing in queues, never more so than in recent weeks, as blocks-long lines of residents seeking surgical masks and sanitiser have become the norm.But a queue outside a farm?...
View ArticleCoronavirus: online rumours claiming cold wind could carry disease to Hong...
A meteorologist has debunked an online rumour that cold winds buffeting Hong Kong could carry the coronavirus to the city from mainland China, where it originated.Messages spread online as a cold front...
View ArticleCoronavirus: quarantine came as a shock to Hong Kong emergency doctor
Stuck in a coronavirus quarantine camp for almost two weeks was not where Hong Kong emergency ward doctor Stewart Chan expected to find himself over the busy Lunar New Year period.Chan, who works in...
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