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Hong Kong reported 13,074 new coronavirus infections and 201 deaths on Thursday, slightly higher than 12,240 infections the previous day, as authorities prepare to ease some of the city's stringent ... ( read original story ...)

An American lawyer deported from Hong Kong after serving a prison sentence said Thursday that the territory was a police state controlled by Beijing, adding that rights were not respected. Samuel ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s leader said she’s hopeful the international financial hub can lower barriers with the outside world after the current outbreak wanes. ( read original story ...)

A coalition of leading passenger and cargo airlines is calling on Hong Kong to scrap pre-flight and on-arrival Covid-19 tests for aircrew, saying they are a key reason to avoid flying to the city. ( read original story ...)

The city kept the pandemic at bay for two years. Why didn’t it take measures that would help in an inevitable outbreak—like an all-out campaign to vaccinate the elderly? ( read original story ...)

Scientists are now looking to Hong Kong for clues about the future of the pandemic as the U.S. braces for a potential new wave of COVID-19. ( read original story ...)

A health worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) assists people at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Port, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Hong Kong, China, Ma ... ( read original story ...)

The pope recorded the messages in the spur-of-the-moment when he received the new bishop of Hong Kong, Bishop Stephen Chow Sau Yan, S.J., in a private audience at the papal library in the Vatican’s ... ( read original story ...)

An American lawyer and former anti-bribery compliance director at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch has said he has been banned from Hong Kong after he was sentenced for assaultin ... ( read original story ...)

At closing bell, the benchmark Hang Seng Index advanced 1.21%, or 264.80 points, to 22,154.08. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index was up by 1.28%, or 96.58 points, to 7,635.13. ( read original story ...)

Researchers demonstrated the daily variations in time-varying transmission heterogeneity through three COVID-19 epidemic waves of sustained local transmission in Hong Kong. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong reported 12,240 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, down from more than 14,000 the previous day, as the city starts to ease some of the world's most stringent restrictions that have ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is looking to amend its coronavirus travel restrictions that have largely sealed off the international business and tourism hub for two years to the growing anger of residents and businesses ... ( read original story ...)

Face-to-face classes will resume for local schools on April 19 provided teachers and staff have received at least two doses of a coronavirus vaccine. ( read original story ...)