Coronavirus: as infection rate slows, Hong Kong government is under...
There is increasing pressure on Hong Kong’s government to relax coronavirus travel restrictions between the city and mainland China.Some politicians have called for an exemption for business...
View ArticleCoronavirus: nearly 50,000 across Hong Kong take crucial exam amid Covid-19...
Hong Kong students took university entrance exams in their tens of thousands on Monday in the diploma’s biggest sitting since the Covid-19 crisis began, although 42 were absent or turned away with...
View ArticleCoronavirus: government targets Thursday to begin flying Hong Kong residents...
A chartered flight is likely to bring as many as 300 Hong Kong residents stranded by the Covid-19 pandemic back from Pakistan on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the arrangement.The source...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong’s visually impaired deprived of Covid-19 information...
Visually impaired people in Hong Kong are struggling to get hold of crucial information about the coronavirus because half of the city’s major Chinese-language news organisations do not have accessible...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong court denies bail for manager of unlicensed bar open...
The manager of an unlicensed bar in Hong Kong was denied bail on Monday after being charged over breaking a government order that closed down bars and pubs during the coronavirus pandemic.Chong...
View ArticleCoronavirus: pregnant Hongkonger stuck in Pakistan’s lockdown as mental...
Stranded in Pakistan during its coronavirus lockdown and 23 weeks pregnant, Khan, 26, a Hong Kong permanent resident who only wants to be known by her surname, is at her wits’ end.She is on prescribed...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong public services to resume next week, says city’s...
Public services will start returning to normal next Monday, when most civil servants will go back to their offices, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has said.But the chief executive did not...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to ease border rules after third straight day of no...
Hong Kong recorded no new coronavirus cases for a third day in a row on Tuesday, while the health minister is set to announce the relaxation of some border control measures, the Post has...
View ArticleHong Kong’s first coronavirus quarantine exemptions for professionals and...
Factory owners and professionals including accountants and engineers are likely to be among the first batch of travellers allowed to skip mandatory quarantine when they enter Hong Kong from mainland...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Another day of no new Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong
Hong Kong on Wednesday recorded no new cases of Covid-19 for the fourth straight day, the strongest sign yet that the coronavirus threat was easing in the city.It was the sixth time in 10 days that the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong scientists to identify city’s ‘invisible’ Covid-19...
Chinese University scientists are aiming to identify the number of asymptomatic virus carriers in Hong Kong and bolster the city’s fight against Covid-19.In a HK$3 million government-funded study,...
View ArticleCoronavirus: gift bags, TV shows for little patients at Hong Kong Children’s...
Little patients at Hong Kong Children’s Hospital are being offered alternative mental health support as visits of social workers and volunteers have been cancelled amid the Covid-19 pandemic.A thousand...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong starts long weekend with another day of no new...
Hong Kong recorded no new cases of coronavirus for a fifth day in a row on Thursday, amid unusually muted celebrations for the holiday of Buddha’s Birthday.It was the seventh time in 11 days that the...
View ArticleCoronavirus threat sees Hong Kong religious ceremony cancelled for first time...
A traditional religious ceremony intended to be part of Hong Kong’s watered-down bun festival on Thursday has been called off for the first time in more than a century.The last-minute decision was made...
View ArticleHong Kong government turns to global PR firms for second time in attempt to...
Hong Kong officials are again looking for public relations companies to help rebuild the city’s shattered image, after a previous attempt failed to find any takers.And after almost a year of...
View ArticleHong Kong man diagnosed with rat hepatitis E infection after being admitted...
Health authorities in Hong Kong have launched an investigation into a rare human case of rat hepatitis E virus involving a 61-year-old man who was infected by an undetermined source.The patient, who...
View ArticleCoronavirus prompts Hong Kong to impose tough quarantine and travel...
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View ArticleCoronavirus: lessons of pandemic have officials rethinking plans for Hong...
The coronavirus has forced Hong Kong to overhaul its decades-long development plan for the city’s public hospitals, the Hospital Authority chief has revealed, with challenges faced since the beginning...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong’s five-day streak of no Covid-19 cases ends, with at...
Hong Kong’s five-day streak of zero coronavirus infections ended on Friday, with at least one new case reported from a group of people who were flown back from Pakistan.But there have been no local...
View ArticleRising food prices during pandemic add to burdens of Hong Kong’s poor, with...
Chau Mee-heung, 84, waits in line with about 100 others every Saturday morning to collect a free boxed meal, of rice with a meat dish and vegetables, handed out by a charity to people struggling with...
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