HSBC Holdings Plc will re-open its main Hong Kong office on Monday, after being closed last week in the wake of three people testing positive for Covid-19. “Precautionary measures -- such as wearing ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s electoral shake-up: making sense of the political tectonic shift of the past 10 days through 10 questions
Standing Committee which is expected to be held later this week at the earliest, here are 10 things to help you make sense of the changes being imposed on Hong Kong’s political scene. 1. What is this ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s arts scene shudders as Beijing draws cultural red line
Pro-Beijing politicians accuse newly built M+ Museum of breaching the sweeping national security law ... ( read original story ...)
Patriot games: Hong Kong arts scene shudders as loyalists circle
After successfully muzzling Hong Kong's democracy protests and opposition, Beijing's loyalists are now taking aim at the arts as they seek to impose mainland-style orthodoxy on culture and purge the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong, Its Elections Upended, Reconsiders Its Dream of Democracy
The promise of universal suffrage has animated the city’s politics for decades. Beijing’s latest moves could finally extinguish that hope. ( read original story ...)
Expats forced to confront Hong Kong’s ‘brutal’ Covid quarantine
Worley, a retail consultant who has lived in Hong Kong for almost 20 years, at 8.30am on Saturday morning. Her 18-month-old son had been exposed to coronavirus at a playgroup, the caller said. A bus ... ( read original story ...)
IPO Mania Fizzles in Hong Kong as Mega First-Day Pops Disappear
The days of the massive first-day pop in Hong Kong’s initial public offering frenzy may be nearing an end.Even as the pandemic spread for most of 2020, the offshore Chinese city’s IPOs and new ... ( read original story ...)
Restoring Hong Kong’s coral reef with 3D printing
Facing a rapidly warming world, marine scientists in Hong Kong, China, are using 3D-printed clay sea beds to help restore the city's fragile corals. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong visa applications swell to 27k as China cracks down
The number of people planning to move to the UK from Hong Kong has accelerated as Beijing intensifies its clampdown on the former British colony. Downing Street said 27,000 Hongkongers have now ... ( read original story ...)
As democracy fades, Hong Kong’s political opposition become political prisoners
Beijing's dismantling of Hong Kong's autonomy is all but complete. Those who dared challenge its authority now face years in prison. ( read original story ...)
14 days of isolation: What life is like inside a Hong Kong COVID quarantine camp
After several people at her gym tested positive for COVID-19, a London, Ont., woman living in Hong Kong was whisked off to a government quarantine camp even though she tested negative for the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong health authorities defend practice of tying infants, children to quarantine beds
Some parents have alleged that their infant children were tied to beds in quarantine wards to stop them from moving around. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s fragile coral reefs boosted by 3D printing
A marine scientist diver from the University of Hong Kong swims above a cuttlefish protecting her eggs inside an artificial 3D-printed clay seabed ... ( read original story ...)
How China Has Crushed Hong Kong’s Democracy
On March 11, an annual confab of functionaries rubber-stamped a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) plan to gut most of what is left of Hong Kong’s democratic processes. At the “Two Sessions” meeting, or ... ( read original story ...)