Coronavirus: stress over university entrance exams has skyrocketed amid Hong...
The stress levels of Hong Kong students sitting for the upcoming university entrance examination are at an all-time high amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced schools to close, according...
View ArticleCoronavirus: 65 Hongkongers arrive home after weeks stranded in Peru
Sixty-five Hong Kong residents stranded in Peru finally flew back to the city on Sunday afternoon with the help of the authorities, but the city government is being urged to help residents stuck in...
View ArticleTelemedicine offers solutions to Hong Kong patients unwilling to visit...
Kwok Hiu-tung, a 25-year-old woman, had undergone a cleft lip surgery in a public hospital in Hong Kong in January. She was worried the worsening pandemic would delay her follow-up consultations.But...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong virologist calls for wide-scale antibody testing aimed...
A large-scale antibody study should be carried out to gauge the true number of Covid-19 infections in Hong Kong, information that would allow the government to make better-informed policy decisions, a...
View ArticleCoronavirus: top Hong Kong microbiologist urges government to make masks...
The government should make mask wearing mandatory and step up enforcement of social-distancing laws to prevent Covid-19 transmission, the University of Hong Kong’s top microbiologist has said.Dr Ho...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong shuts airport to foreigners indefinitely as cases rise...
Hong Kong extended its airport closure to foreign arrivals indefinitely as the number of coronavirus infections surpassed 900 and a leading microbiologist called for an emergency law requiring all...
View ArticleCoronavirus: six fined in Hong Kong’s first Covid-19 prosecutions for illegal...
Six Hongkongers have been fined HK$2,000 (US$256) each over a game of chess found in breach of social-distancing laws, marking the city’s first prosecutions under coronavirus rules banning public...
View ArticleHong Kong’s drugs tsar links rising cannabis use among young people with...
Hong Kong’s commissioner for narcotics has attributed a 50 per cent surge in young people using cannabis to users thinking the drug is not harmful because of legalisation overseas.Despite a 17 per cent...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Indian consulate in Hong Kong poised to work with government to...
The Indian consulate in Hong Kong has said it is poised to work with the city’s government to fly some 700 stranded residents out of the South Asian country, even as the administration remains...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology cancels student...
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has cancelled its student exchange programmes in the first half of the next academic year with the world in the grip of the coronavirus.In an...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong glass recycler says shutdown of bars, nightclubs a...
The city’s recent 14-day shutdown of bars, pubs and nightclubs as it attempts to contain the spread of Covid-19 is already having negative consequences for another sector that can ill afford it – glass...
View ArticleCoronavirus: police raid finds 91 Hongkongers crammed into unlicensed pub...
Hong Kong police rounded up 91 people found crammed into a 1,000 sq ft unlicensed pub during a raid in the early hours of Tuesday, despite coronavirus regulations barring both group gatherings and the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to give struggling businesses ‘more than HK$30...
Hong Kong businesses struggling to survive the coronavirus crisis will be offered a relief package of more than HK$30 billion to be unveiled on Wednesday, the Post has learned, with a portion helping...
View ArticleCoronavirus: wrong Nepalese man sent from quarantine to hospital after...
A Nepalese man in a Hong Kong quarantine centre who tested positive for Covid-19 was denied prompt hospital care after officials instead sent his father for treatment owing to a possible mix-up of...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to close beauty and massage parlours amid Covid-19 spread
Hong Kong beauty and massage parlours have been ordered to close for 14 days from Friday, the government announced on Wednesday, after three of them were linked to confirmed Covid-19 cases.Meanwhile,...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Carrie Lam unveils Hong Kong’s biggest Covid-19 relief package...
Hong Kong’s embattled leader on Wednesday unveiled her government’s biggest coronavirus financial relief package so far, offering a HK$137.5 billion (US$18 billion) lifeline to save ailing businesses...
View ArticleHow the coronavirus might change the world for the better, from less...
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on an unprecedented scale. With nearly 70,000 deaths and an impending global economic meltdown, the world has been thrown into disarray.The way in which we...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong records 25 new cases, including two-month-old baby and...
Hong Kong recorded 25 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, including a two-month-old baby and a staff member of a public clinic, bringing the city’s infection tally to 960.Fifteen people who had recent...
View ArticleSeptember 6 tentative date for Legislative Council election, but Hong Kong’s...
September 6 has been set as the tentative date for Hong Kong’s upcoming Legislative Council election, despite concerns the polls could yet be postponed as the city grapples with the coronavirus...
View ArticleCoronavirus: nearly 75 per cent of Hong Kong schoolteachers polled seek...
Nearly 75 per cent of Hong Kong schoolteachers polled in a survey sought further postponement of the local university entrance exam amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to the city’s biggest...
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