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CNN's Ivan Watson reports on the mounting pressure for pet owners wishing to leave Hong Kong to save their animals as officials kill thousands of hamsters and small animals over Covid-19 fears. ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong’s onerous system of hotel quarantine for travellers was meant to stop infection from seeping into a largely virus-free city. Instead, it’s become a spreading ground, seeding an Omicron ... ( read original story ...)

Letting people isolate at home might actually be a better choice, says another. . Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)

With Hong Kong pushing on with its Covid Zero ambitions, residents are left to reckon with a worsening labor crunch. ( read original story ...)

U.S. stocks sold off earlier in the session but mounted a dramatic comeback as investors stepped in to buy beaten-up tech shares. ( read original story ...)

The Centa-City Leading Index tracking prices in mass housing estates has retreated 3.4 per cent since it peaked on August 8 last year. The reading is set to weaken through the Lunar New Year, a ... ( read original story ...)

Economists estimate growth levels of 1 to 2 per cent in first quarter of 2022 but say recovery will depend on duration of business restrictions. ( read original story ...)

Checkley Sin, who became the first person to announce his intention to run in Hong Kong’s small-circle chief executive election last Wednesday, has proposed building a Lamma Island mega-prison to ... ( read original story ...)

Someone is trying to preserve the news of the past in Hong Kong. Independent news about the present is getting hard to find. Under government pressure, the pro-democracy paper Apple Daily shut down, ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong reported 109 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours on Monday, taking the total tally to 13,395, according to data from the Center for Health Protection. The newly reported ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong-based Huabao International's billionaire CEO Chu Lam Yiu's wealth declined by 50% as shares of her company plunged 67% after a Chinese city's supervisory committee began probe into Chu for ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong is coping with a mental health crisis as the city's happiness index has fallen. Despite the growing crisis, the city's public health system is struggling to cope -- with some patients having ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's chief justice on Monday defended the handpicking of judges to hear controversial national security cases, dismissing "unsubstantiated" concerns about the rule of law in the Chinese finance ... ( read original story ...)

Hong Kong's top judge on Monday said the city's vaunted judicial independence was "a fact", acknowledging international and local concerns as prosecutions mount under a Chinese-imposed national ... ( read original story ...)