Cafe de Coral managing director says 163 fast food outlets and 42 Super Super Congee and Noodles stores will stop providing dine-in services from March 1 Number of restaurants opting to suspend ... ( read original story ...)
How does Hong Kong’s ‘Leave Home Safe’ stack up against global contact-tracing apps in keeping track of Covid-19 infections?
These apps have become essential for many people to safely carry on outside their homes, while observing social-distancing rules. ( read original story ...)
More than 100 displaced OFWs rescued as COVID wave hits Hong Kong — NGOs
"This inhumane treatment of MDWs leave them homeless in the height of winter in Hong Kong with no safe place to go or ability to protect their health in this time of crisis," the statement reads. ( read original story ...)
OPINION – A prudent and progressive budget for Hong Kong in difficult time
Judging from the content of the 2022-23 budget speech delivered by the Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan on February 23, the Hong Kong government not only maintains the principle of financial ... ( read original story ...)
Curb your enthusiasm, kiddo: younger members of Hong Kong advisory bodies find it hard to break through risk-averse bureaucratic culture
Scheme encourages ‘young elites’ to step forward, but many bodies still do not have members under the age of 35. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s success in fending off COVID comes back to haunt
For two years, Hong Kong successfully insulated most of its residents from COVID-19 and often went months without a single locally spread case. Then the omicron variant showed up. The fast-spreading ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Delays First Retail Green Bond Launch Due to Covid-19
Hong Kong’s government is delaying the launch of its inaugural retail green bond due to the spread of coronavirus cases in the city. The government postponed the subscription period and issuance of ... ( read original story ...)
COVID-19 outbreak: Mainland medical experts arrive in Hong Kong COVID-19 outbreak: Mainland medical experts arrive in Hong Kong
Two batches of mainland health experts have arrived in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to work with the HKSAR government in fighting the latest COVID-19 outbreak, a health official ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bankers plot escape from zero-Covid nightmare
Annie left Hong Kong to spend Christmas with her family in Britain and never went back. With flights from the UK banned in early 2020, the finance executive who lived in the territory for almost four ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong allows COVID-19 home testing as daily cases soar
Hong Kong health authorities said on Saturday (Feb 26) they would adjust COVID-19 testing procedures to allow some people to test from home to ease long queues at designated testing centres, as the ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Shifting to Rapid Covid Tests to Fight Record Outbreak
Hong Kong is changing its Covid-testing strategy to obtain faster results with self-administered kits as it battles to suppress its worst coronavirus outbreak to date. ( read original story ...)
Two batches of mainland medical experts sent to Hong Kong to fight COVID-19
Two batches of mainland health experts have arrived in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to work with the HKSAR government in fighting the latest COVID-19 outbreak, a health official ... ( read original story ...)
Meet the young luxury watch collectors driving Hong Kong’s NFT frenzy
Gen Z and millennial luxury watch collectors in Hong Kong follow the lead of social media influencers betting big on NFTs A Monkey Kingdom NFT sold for more than US$148,000 in December, higher than ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19: 12 banks, including HSBC, Standard Chartered and BOCHK to suspend services on Saturdays
Twelve Hong Kong banks, including note-issuing lenders HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of China (Hong Kong), will suspend all banking services on Saturdays starting this week and the next until ... ( read original story ...)