Coronavirus: Hong Kong businesses could be able to apply for cash from...
Hong Kong businesses could start applying for subsidies on wage bills under the new HK$137.5 billion (US$18 billion) coronavirus relief package in June, the welfare chief said on Thursday, as he...
View ArticleCoronavirus: with smallest new infection count in weeks, Hong Kong’s Covid-19...
Hong Kong has turned a corner in its battle against the Covid-19 outbreak, medical experts said on Thursday after the city reported just 13 new infections.The latest daily case number, the city’s...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong education chief ‘confident’ Diploma of Secondary...
Hong Kong’s education secretary said on Thursday he remained confident the university entrance exams would go ahead as planned in two weeks, as a poll revealed more than 70 per cent of candidates...
View ArticleCoronavirus: more than 1,200 Hongkongers stranded around the world have...
More than 1,200 Hong Kong residents stranded in over 62 countries amid coronavirus lockdown have sought help from the government, the city’ security minister revealed on Thursday.John Lee Ka-chiu said...
View ArticleCoronavirus: beauty treatment rush before Hong Kong government’s two-week...
Hongkongers rushed to beauty parlours on Thursday ahead of their two-week closure to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as the industry braced for the financial impact of the shutdown.Salons report a surge...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong police find another Tsim Sha Tsui bar packed amid...
Another crowded bar in Hong Kong’s Tsim Sha Tsui area has been raided by police, who this time cornered 64 patrons who now face court summonses for violating new coronavirus regulations banning...
View ArticleHong Kong domestic workers ‘angry’ at exclusion from coronavirus relief measures
Union leaders and advocates say they were left “angered” and “frustrated” after foreign domestic workers were excluded from a cash handout scheme announced by the Hong Kong government to ease the...
View ArticleCoronavirus replicates in throat making it easy to transmit, German...
Scientists in Germany have determined that the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 can rapidly replicate within people’s throats, making it far easier than Sars virus for it to be transmitted from one...
View ArticleCoronavirus: promises of transparency in Hong Kong wage subsidy scheme, amid...
Officials have promised high transparency when Hong Kong employers dip into the government’s HK$80 billion (US$10.25 billion) wage subsidy scheme to keep paying some 1.5 million workers through the...
View ArticleEaster weekend disrupted: Hong Kong church services go online, pandemic hits...
The four-day Easter weekend starts on April 10, but there will be no church services to attend, no fun egg hunts for children, no clubbing with friends, and no quick getaways for a short holiday.In...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong government wants to create 30,000 jobs in technology,...
New positions in the information technology, health care and welfare sectors could fill a large part of the 30,000 job vacancies to be created by the Hong Kong government to boost the employment rate...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hongkongers rescued from Morocco spared double quarantine
More than two dozen Hongkongers rescued from Morocco on a government-chartered flight amid the Covid-19 pandemic have managed to avoid spending four weeks in quarantine across both mainland China and...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong uses artificial lungs to treat Covid-19 patient for...
Artificial lungs have been fitted to a coronavirus patient for the first time in Hong Kong, health officials said on Friday, as 16 new infections took the city total to 989.The prosthetic device –...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong residents ‘bored staying at home’ hit scenic spots in...
Thousands of residents were out and about in force across Hong Kong on Friday at the start of the Easter break, ignoring pleas to follow social distancing rules and flocking to beaches and country...
View ArticleCoronavirus: staff arrested as another Hong Kong bar raided, but customers...
The operators and staff of a Tsim Sha Tsui pub raided in the early hours of Friday were arrested for breaching the city’s mandatory closure of bars, though their customers escaped prosecution for the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: why there’s no quick fix for a Covid-19 vaccine
For months, vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert has been in a race against time, working seven days a week to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus that causes the potentially lethal disease Covid-19.Gilbert...
View ArticleCoronavirus: con artists swindle thousands of Hongkongers in face mask scams...
Coronavirus con artists scammed a Hong Kong clinic out of HK$20 million (US$2.6 million) in a surgical mask fraud, police have revealed.The clinic was just one of more than 3,000 victims in the city...
View ArticleStuck at home with a monster: more reports of violence against women,...
Staying at home may help to keep the coronavirus causing Covid-19 at bay, but the pandemic is taking its toll on victims of domestic violence in Hong Kong.After more than 30 years of marriage, Cheng...
View ArticleRough ride for Hong Kong cabbies: incomes shrink as passengers stay home to...
A week after being robbed and injured in his taxi, cabby Tom Ku Ching-tung, 35, gets anxious each time he stops to pick up a passenger.The night-shift driver was in Sham Shui Po on April 2 when a...
View ArticleEven Hong Kong’s Michelin-starred restaurants are offering takeaway menus as...
Some of Hong Kong’s most exclusive restaurants are doing what was once considered unthinkable, in response to the coronavirus pandemic: offering takeaway menus.From ornate Cantonese dining halls to...
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