Category: NEWS

As the rest of the world learns to live with the virus, the highly infectious omicron variant has finally broken through Hong Kong’s once lauded defenses. ( read original story ...)

Care homes have become the epicentre of the city's worst-ever outbreak, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all deaths since January when an Omicron- fuelled resurgence kicked off. Hong Kong has ... ( read original story ...)

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Thursday that America is set for another year of "very uncomfortably high" inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war. ( read original story ...)

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Thursday that America is set for another year of "very uncomfortably high" inflation amid the Russia-Ukraine war. ( read original story ...)

Serving up a rarely changing menu of quirky Canto-European concoctions, the cha chaan teng is at the heart of the city's singular cultural identity. ( read original story ...)

Context: Hong Kong long championed the idea of “zero COVID,” which aimed to eliminate all cases through testing and quarantine, according to The Washington Post. This is simil ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's hair salons were allowed to reopen on Thursday, after being shut on February 10, as part of restrictions implemented to tackle the surge of COVID-19 cases. (March 10) ... ( read original story ...)

Revolution of Our Times looks at the 2019 demonstrations, which some Taiwanese saw as a warning sign about their own future ... ( read original story ...)

China's securities regulator has barred the country's investment banks it regulates from acting as promoters of blank-check firms in Hong Kong, three people with knowledge of the matter said, cutting ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said there is “no specific time frame” for a citywide testing, two weeks after she announced it would happen this month. Her earlier announcement, coupled with rumors of an ... ( read original story ...)

The temporary bridge will aid work on a makeshift hospital as the city’s Covid death rate reaches world’s highest per 1m people ... ( read original story ...)

As the government in Hong Kong struggles to contain the city’s worst COVID outbreak ever, some residents have panicked. They have emptied supermarket shelves of vegetables and meat. They have raided ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s plan to test the entire population for coronavirus in March has been indefinitely postponed as the city prioritizes vaccinating the elderly. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam says reducing the skyrocketing number of deaths in the latest coronavirus surge is the city’s priority, putting a plan to test the entire population on hold in the latest f ... ( read original story ...)