Hong Kong’s business elite are cashing in their luxury villas at a loss as...
Some of Hong Kong’s wealthy property owners are cashing in their luxury houses, often slashing the price to sell at a loss, as the city faces the threat of its worst recession ever.Many of them are...
View ArticleCoronavirus pandemic exposes Hong Kong’s inadequate links between public,...
Ava Ma expected to have a non-malignant ovarian tumour removed in a public hospital in March, after waiting for almost three years for surgery.But in late February, the hospital told her that her...
View ArticleHong Kong in talks with mainland China and Macau to mutually recognise...
Hong Kong is in talks with mainland Chinese and Macau authorities to mutually recognise the health status of cross-border travellers to avoid doubling their Covid-19 quarantine periods.The move came as...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong returns to zero infections after earlier five-day...
Hong Kong recorded no new coronavirus cases on Saturday, the sixth time in seven days that there were no fresh infections, with the city’s total at 1,039.Sources said the Centre for Health Protection...
View ArticleHow coronavirus pushes Hong Kong domestic workers into debt traps
When Rose, a Filipino domestic worker in Hong Kong, learned that a relative had developed cancer, she felt she had no option but to turn to a loan company. The migrant worker, who has lived in the city...
View ArticleCoronavirus: musician from Hong Kong’s Covid-19 bar cluster recounts...
Mark Anthony Balcueva knew there was a chance he might catch Covid-19, but he was still shaken to his core when he received news of his infection, which resulted in a close brush with death and 13 days...
View ArticleCoronavirus: ban on groups of more than 4 at restaurant tables could be...
Hong Kong’s ban on groups of more than four per table in restaurants amid the Covid-19 crisis could be relaxed to eight under a government proposal endorsed by public health advisers, the Post has...
View ArticleCoronavirus: all Hongkongers to be given masks that can be reused 60 times,...
All Hongkongers will be given a mask that can be reused up to 60 times amid the coronavirus pandemic, a government health adviser has revealed.Prominent microbiologist Professor Yuen Kwok-yung on...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong records no new cases on Sunday, marking 14 straight...
Hong Kong recorded no new coronavirus infections on Sunday, the second consecutive day without any new case and the 14th day in a row with no new local transmission, a government source said.An earlier...
View ArticleUnexpected long holidays: pandemic restrictions leave travellers stranded in...
When American teacher Seth Collins left Shenzhen in February to visit his mother in the United States, he had no inkling of the trouble he would have returning.“I'm in limbo,” said Collins, 40, now...
View ArticleHong Kong records hottest day of the year so far on Sunday, with warmer spell...
Hong Kong recorded the hottest day of the year so far on Sunday, with a warmer spell to come in the week ahead and a hot Mother’s Day weekend expected.Maximum temperatures hit 34 degrees Celsius in...
View ArticleRace to set up coronavirus screening centre near Hong Kong airport pays off,...
Dr Vincent Cheng Chi-chung recalls the exact moment he received the Health Authority text message on his mobile phone, at 7.45pm on March 18.The infection control officer was among about 100 health...
View ArticleNo sleep, no family time: Hong Kong’s medical heroes recall deepest fears...
When Dr Raymond Liu Wai-to received five Covid-19 patients from the same family one night in February, he feared what might come next.“I thought Hong Kong could be on the cusp of a large community...
View ArticleHong Kong retail giant AS Watson converts water plant to face-mask production...
AS Watson Group, the world’s biggest health and beauty retailer, owned by Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison, has converted part of a water plant into a mask production line in the New Territories, to...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong to relax rules on public gatherings
Hong Kong is to relax its rules on public gatherings after the coronavirus epidemic showed signs of abating in the city, the Post learned on Monday.Groups of up to eight people are to be permitted,...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong records at least one new case – believed imported – as...
Hong Kong recorded at least one new Covid-19 case on Monday, pushing the city’s overall tally of confirmed cases to at least 1,040, the Post has learned, as the government made plans to relax rules on...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Lands Department chief shifts to newly created director position...
A senior Hong Kong official supervising land issues has been reassigned to assist in the city’s battle with Covid-19 in the latest reshuffle of senior civil servants.Thomas Chan Chung-ching, director...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong-based research institute behind reusable masks for...
Reusable masks the government has promised to distribute to all Hong Kong residents were developed by a local public research institute and employ enhanced filtration technology that earned top honours...
View ArticleHong Kong public hospitals begin return of services cancelled because of...
Hong Kong public hospitals have begun rescheduling non-emergency services for thousands of patients affected by cancellations because of the coronavirus.But on Tuesday a senior hospital officer warned...
View ArticleRussia’s Covid-19 surge means China cannot fully relax its guard
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