Coronavirus: Hong Kong school closures cripple bus companies
Drivers and minders on Hong Kong school buses have been left unpaid and threatening to quit, operators warned on Thursday, their income cut off because of class suspensions aimed at curbing the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: agonising delay for Hongkongers stranded on cruise ship in Japan...
A second batch of more than 100 Hongkongers stranded on board the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan were unable to return home as scheduled on Thursday night because of a delay...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong business leaders leverage personal networks to fill...
More than 50 Hong Kong business leaders have lent their weight to sourcing hundreds of thousands of pieces of protective gear amid the coronavirus outbreak in recent weeks, with some fronting the money...
View ArticleCoronavirus: boarding gate error prevents 17 cleared Diamond Princess...
Seventeen cruise ship passengers among a second batch of Hongkongers being rescued from their coronavirus ordeal in Japan were barred from a government-chartered flight on Friday night because of a...
View ArticleGovernment to give Hong Kong bus operators masks – but supply must be paid...
Hong Kong’s franchised bus operators have sought help from the government for masks amid a citywide shortage, but are told they would have to pay back the supply at a later date.The request came as two...
View ArticleHong Kong no longer in Hurun’s top 50 cities for fastest-growing home prices...
Hong Kong’s home prices are no longer among the fastest growing on the planet, after months of volatile street protests destroyed demand, according to a new report by Shanghai-based Hurun.The city,...
View ArticleHong Kong police caught up in coronavirus crisis after first officer tests...
Hong Kong’s embattled police force is caught up in the coronavirus crisis after an officer contracted Covid-19 for the first time and four colleagues who attended a recent banquet with him developed...
View ArticleHong Kong doctors issue lung donation appeal to save young woman whose life...
Doctors in Hong Kong have issued an emergency appeal for a lung donation to save the life of a 24-year-old woman with a rare medical condition.Ng Lok-ching’s lungs and heart have stopped working and...
View ArticleCoronavirus: almost 400 applicants eye up HK$1.5 billion scheme to boost mask...
It appears even a billion dollars cannot buy you a mask in Hong Kong any more as a government scheme to boost local production has been unable to find anyone capable of meeting the required technical...
View ArticleHow the coronavirus is affecting Hong Kong hospital patients with other...
Gemmarie Ho Pui-lum knew she would be alone when she gave birth. It was not by choice. Just a couple of weeks before her due date, Ho found out that public hospitals across the city had banned partners...
View ArticleBetter safe than sorry: that’s the thinking behind the irrational behaviour...
I have to admit that it didn’t surprise me at all when the news broke about a run on toilet paper following a panic-shopping spree across Hong Kong earlier this month as the coronavirus outbreak...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkongers flock to barbecue pits at reservoir for fresh air...
At the scenic Plover Cove Reservoir in Tai Po, crowds of Hongkongers, from children to the elderly, gather around barbecue pits, at restaurants and along cycling tracks. To the unfamiliar, it would...
View ArticleCoronavirus: third chartered flight to bring Hong Kong cruise ship passengers...
A third chartered flight was expected to leave Tokyo at 1.45am on Sunday, bringing dozens of Hongkongers trapped on the Diamond Princess cruise ship home, as the number of confirmed infections among...
View Article12-hour ordeal, but glad to be home: Hongkongers on second airlift recall...
Hong Kong dentist Alan Lam’s cruise trip on board the Diamond Princess has been anything but smooth-sailing, even down to the last minute when his long-anticipated flight home after 17 days of being...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkonger returned from Diamond Princess cruise ship tests...
A man under quarantine in Hong Kong after being evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship tested preliminarily positive for the coronavirus on Saturday, according to medical sources.The...
View ArticleCoronavirus: HK$800 million reusable mask plan flounders as materials,...
A day after government attempts to boost local mask production were revealed to be flailing, Hong Kong’s technology chief conceded a plan to produce reusable versions was faring no better, citing the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: as Diamond Princess cruise ship evacuees return from Japan, Hong...
An elderly woman on Saturday became the 70th person confirmed as infected with the deadly coronavirus in Hong Kong, as a third chartered flight is to bring home five city residents evacuated from the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong officials mull rescue plans for residents stranded in...
Hopes were raised on Saturday for needy Hongkongers stranded in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak as the government said it was willing to look into ways to get them home, after a newspaper...
View ArticleCoronavirus outbreak leaves Hong Kong funeral homes facing coffin shortage
Hong Kong is facing a coffin shortage after the coronavirus outbreak stopped production over the border.Factories in Guangdong province were ordered to close until February 10 to contain the spread of...
View ArticleCoronavirus: 100 Hongkongers still stuck in Japan after third airlift for...
About 100 Hongkongers were still in limbo in Japan on Sunday uncertain when they could get home, even as a third chartered flight returned more residents from the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess...
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