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Some public services in Hong Kong are set to resume on Monday, when thousands of the city's civil servants head back to work, Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 4.2% in the January to March period, the highest in more than nine years, as the coronavirus restricted activity in an economy already in ... ( read original story ...)

"My guess is that about one week out, perhaps around May 1, shortages will begin developing at retail meat counters," said Dennis Smith, a commodity broker/livestock analyst with Archer Financial ... ( read original story ...)

Government employees will start returning to offices on May 4 and the city is preparing to open facilities including museums and libraries. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday most civil servants will gradually return to work from May 4, although the government had not yet decided whether to ease travel and social distancing ... ( read original story ...)

Southern Legend put a nose in front of Beauty Generation to win the Champions Mile, feature on a three-Group 1 day in Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)

Researchers at a Hong Kong university say they have developed an antiviral coating which could provide 90 days of "significant" protection against bacteria and viruses such as the one causing COVID-19 ... ( read original story ...)

The Hong Kong dollar is bumping against the top end of its narrow 7.75-7.85 band against the U.S. dollar and is among the best-performing currencies this year even as the city's economy struggles to ... ( read original story ...)

The publisher had waited nearly five years to reopen Causeway Bay Books, an independent store in Hong Kong that was forced to close in 2015 when Lam was detained in China for selling books critical of ... ( read original story ...)

A team of researchers from a Hong Kong university claim to have developed an antiviral coating they say can provide 90 days of "significant" protection against bacteria and viruses such as the novel ... ( read original story ...)

We’re not just living through an earth-shaking pandemic.We’re living through a new crisis in which a highly virulent virus arrives at the very moment when ubiquitous media coverage, global ... ( read original story ...)

For more than a century, Hong Kong’s legion of stock brokerages have traded through world wars, epic market busts and the former British colony’s handover back to China. But the coronavirus pandemic ... ( read original story ...)

A Hong Kong bookshop that was closed down by the Chinese authorities more than four years ago and became a symbol of the city’s disappearing freedoms has reopened in Taiwan.Lam Wing-kee was one of the ... ( read original story ...)

Demonstrators gathered in a Hong Kong mall on Sunday chanting pro-democracy slogans, even as Hong Kong's social distancing measures banned gatherings of more than four in public. ( read original story ...)