Crematoria work around the clock and coffins run short as death toll soars, driven by large numbers of unvaccinated elderly people ... ( read original story ...)
Patients share wards with dead in body bags in Hong Kong Covid crisis
Hong Kong has the world’s highest daily death rate at 37 per million residents and is reeling from the sort of devastating scenes witnessed in Europe, the US, Brazil and India ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: why thousands of rooms at Hong Kong’s isolation hotels for Covid-19 patients are still empty
City leader has vowed to redesignate the space for other purposes, with authorities revealing occupancy rate at just over 50 per cent. ( read original story ...)
‘Dead bodies will pile up’: Hong Kong funeral industry warns of coffin shortage despite increase in supply following easing of lockdown restrictions in Shenzhen
'We need 300 coffins every day to cope with the daily fatalities,' says Hong Kong Funeral Business Association chairman Ng Yiu-tong 'Coffins are as essential as rice to people ... The government needs ... ( read original story ...)
How to Love Hong Kong Despite Everything
If you had asked me when I was 18 what I thought of Hong Kong, I would have told you that I was ambivalent. Hong Kong was a place where I just happened to find myself. It was the ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong could ease flight bans and class suspensions next week, city leader says
Hong Kong could be easing up on flight bans ... and resuming more international flights to allow vaccinated business travellers and Hongkongers to come to the city. He also suggested that the ... ( read original story ...)
Covid and poverty: Hong Kong’s downtrodden survive on food court leftovers, seek out free meals from charities as pandemic takes its toll
City leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had warned that Hong Kong’s unemployment rate would continue to worsen after it bounced back to a five-month high of 4.5 per cent between ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: what are the Hong Kong financial relief schemes available and can they help SMEs, unemployed affected by fifth wave?
Small and medium-sized enterprises, and the unemployed can expect to receive help through the Employment Support Scheme and Temporary Unemployment Relief initiative ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong to exclude large companies ‘unaffected by COVID fifth wave’ from wage subsidy scheme
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that the country will exclude the large supermarkets and pharmacy chains as well as other businesses from the ne ... ( read original story ...)
With Hong Kong at a crossroads, city needs a strong leader and a Build Back Better plan to reboot
Hong Kong is in dire need of a reboot following mishandling of pandemic and protests roiled the city because status quo no longer works Hong Kong's next chief executive must lead the city out of its ... ( read original story ...)
Leapmotor Eyes IPO in Hong Kong
Chinese electric vehicle maker Leapmotor has filed for public listing on HKEX (Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing) on Friday, with China International Capital Corporation (CICC), Citibank, JPMorgan ... ( read original story ...)
First HK-listed SPAC has slow start in IPO debut
Aquila Acquisition Corp, the first special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to list in Hong Kong, had a slow debut yesterday as few investors are qualified to trade the shares. ( read original story ...)
Beijing digs in to avoid repeating Hong Kong’s Covid mistakes
Xi Jinping’s Covid tsar travelled south to Hong Kong where he witnessed panic and chaos sweeping through the financial hub as body bags overflowed from intensi ... ( read original story ...)
China’s Hainan cyberspace regulator summons some property firms over suspected fake advertisements
China's Hainan government agencies have summoned two property firms, including Hong Kong-listed Agile Group, and have warned some real estate service websites over suspected fake advertisements.Firms ... ( read original story ...)