Creative community comes to grips with new censorship landscape and complaints from government supportersObservers see shades of mainland’s Cultural Revolution as films are blocked, books are targeted ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bans Philippine Airlines flights from Manila for 2 weeks
The plans of many domestic workers - not to mention employers and agencies - were given an unexpected shake-up after the government on Sunday banned Philippine Airlines from operating flights between ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong insurtech startup bags $28m from Sun Hung Kai’s investment arm
OneDegree says it has 90,000 paying customers in Hong Kong, the highest among the four virtual insurers in the market. ( read original story ...)
Pets left homeless as owners abandon Hong Kong
Animal lovers say the recent departure of thousands of Hong Kong people seeking new lives elsewhere has led to a surge in the number of abandoned ... ( read original story ...)
Quarantine Rules Threaten Hong Kong’s Role as Finance Hub, Businesses Say
In an effort to maintain zero locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, Hong Kong has imposed one of the world's toughest quarantine regimes, confining most arrivals from overseas to a hotel room for as ... ( read original story ...)
‘I’ve got evidence’: Hong Kong police chief warns political groups disbanding will not help if they have broken the law
Investigations will continue because disbanding ‘does not change the crimes that have been committed’, says Raymond Siu. ( read original story ...)
The go-getters who left Macau for Hong Kong and Shanghai when the Portuguese enclave was a sleepy backwater, and what became of them
Macau had long been a backwater, so when opportunity arose in the 19th century many ‘local Portuguese’ – in fact largely Eurasians – left for Hong Kong and Shanghai. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s OneDegree Raises $28 Million in New Round of Funding
OneDegree, a Hong Kong-based insurance technology company, raised $28 million in a new round of funding as the startup looks to expand in Asia. ( read original story ...)
Superb – Yan Toh Heen (InterContinental Hong Kong)
Superb - See 861 traveller reviews, 1,146 candid photos, and great deals for Hong Kong, China, at Tripadvisor. ( read original story ...)
Businessman conned out of HK$2.2 million in romance scam familiar tale amid surge in Hong Kong cybercrimes
More cases of phishing to get victims’ bank details; French businessman claims ‘wealthy woman’ tricked him into investing HK$2.2 million in stocks scam. ( read original story ...)
By Hong Kong’s quarantine logic, Nicole Kidman is less likely to catch Covid-19
In Hong Kong, we have two classes of people - the haves and the have-nots. While the latter make up the majority of the population, the haves are the privileged to whom the rules do not seem to apply. ( read original story ...)
Exiled Hong Kong MPs slam ‘insensitive’ Nicole Kidman over Amazon series Expats
Nicole Kidman is again under fire, after sparking backlash in Hong Kong when the local government gave her an exemption from mandatory quarantine rules to film her new TV show, Expats. ( read original story ...)
China is knocking on Southeast Asia’s door, and Hong Kong’s trade council is offering to help open it
Hong Kong’s role as a facilitator could in turn invigorate its professional services industry, which already makes up more than a 10th of the city’s gross domestic product, says trade council. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong historians capture horrors of World War II in new website, with plenty more for heritage buffs, hikers too
Historian Kwong Chi-man wants Hongkongers to remember the horrors of war, and one particularly painful episode from the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 stands out. Nurses running an orphanage in ... ( read original story ...)