We’ll have to scramble quickly for hotels,’ aviation insider tells Post as city brings home quarantine to an end after recent infections. ( read original story ...)
Beijing loyalists stalk Hong Kong civil society leaders
Almost from the moment he took office as chair of the Hong Kong Bar Association this year, British barrister Paul Harris was a marked man in Beijing. Officials attacked him as “anti-China” for ... ( read original story ...)
Coronavirus: Hong Kong fitness chain blames ‘unrealistic rent’, social-distancing toll in closing last branches
Goji Studios had eight outlets before its Whampoa branch became the first to close amid the Covid-19 pandemic in September 2020; it was unable to strike a deal on rent with its remaining landlords. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bourse counts on listing reforms to boost market in coming year after decline in IPO fundraising in 2021
Effective January 1, HKEX will allow SPACs, widen the pool of overseas companies that qualify for listing, and increase the profit threshold for new listings CEO Nicolas Aguzin promised to promote ... ( read original story ...)
Additional memorials to Tiananmen Square massacre removed in Hong Kong
Universities in Hong Kong are removing memorials to the bloody suppression of the 1989 Chinese pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong police seize 1.27 tons of ketamine in bust
Police in Hong Kong made their largest ketamine bust to date, seizing 1.27 tons of the drug and arresting four in relation to its distribution. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong universities ‘pressured’ into removing Tiananmen Square monuments
Students at a Hong Kong university have accused the pro-Chinese government of trying to “wash away history” by removing monuments commemorating the 1989 Tiananm ... ( read original story ...)
Maintaining stability, improving livelihoods should take precedence over democratic development in Hong Kong, think tank leader says
Tsinghua University law professor Wang Zhenmin says resources should be used to develop the economy and improve people’s livelihoods after recent political upheavals. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong logs 9 new imported COVID-19 cases
Hong Kong Center for Health Protection CHP on Monday reported nine new imported cases of COVID-19 taking the total tally of confirmed cases to 12598 medi ... ( read original story ...)
Cathay Pacific suffers pilot exodus amid Hong Kong’s ‘permanent quarantine’
Cathay has been operating with passenger capacity at 93% below pre-pandemic levels as a result of Hong Kong’s zero-Covid-19 policy ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong is clinging to ‘zero covid’ and extreme quarantine. Talent is leaving in droves.
Refusal to move beyond "zero covid" is eroding the city's viability as an international hub, according to almost two dozen diplomats, chambers of commerce, pilots and other expatriates. ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bundles up as temperatures plunge to 9.9 degrees Celsius on coldest day of winter so far
Elderly and those with chronic illnesses urged to take extra caution, employers told to keep workers’ health in mind as mercury plummets. ( read original story ...)
China’s Communist Party owns ‘intellectual property’ of Hong Kong democracy as its drafter and defender, think tank leader says
The Communist Party and Chinese people are the drafters and defenders of Hong Kong’s emerging brand of democracy and own this “intellectual property”, mainland experts on city affairs have said while ... ( read original story ...)
Covid-19: Hong Kong suspends Korean Air flights until January 8 due to infections
Some passengers travelling from South Korea to Hong Kong tested positive for coronavirus upon landing last week. ( read original story ...)