HONG KONG—Hong Kong on Feb. 25 reported another sharp jump in new COVID-19 cases to more than 10,000 in the latest 24-hour period as it battles its worst outbreak of the pandemic. The new daily case count reached 10,010, health officials said, after topping 6,000 last week and 8,000 earlier this week in a spiraling…
Hong Kong Families Despair as COVID-19 Rules May Separate Them From Children
HONG KONG—Guada, a mother of two young children and pregnant with twins, cries herself to sleep at night, worried that Hong Kong’s severe COVID-19 rules will separate her from her kids or force her to give birth alone. Anyone who tests positive for COVID-19 in Hong Kong, including infants and children, are put into isolation…
Evergrande Sells 4 Projects to State-Owned Firms for $337 Million
HONG KONG—China Evergrande Group said on Friday it sold stakes and “right to debt” in four developments to two state-owned trust firms for 2.13 billion yuan ($337.35 million), in a move to ensure their construction goes ahead as well as delivery of its other projects. The world’s most indebted property developer is struggling to complete…
Hong Kong Projects Fiscal Deficit Amid COVID-19 Outbreak
Hong Kong government spending will reach an all-time high this fiscal year, putting it into a budget deficit, its financial chief said Wednesday, as the city grapples with its most severe COVID outbreak. The city of 7.4 million people is experiencing its fifth wave of COVID-19 infections. Daily cases have reached record highs with 8,798…
UK to Expand Special Visa Scheme to Cover Hongkongers Born After 1997
February 24, 2022
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The UK government has announced its intention to expand the special visa scheme for British National (Overseas) status holders to cover young Hongkongers born after the 1997 handover. The scheme was unveiled in July 2020 following the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime’s imposition of a draconian national security law on Hong Kong. It allows BN(O)…
Hong Kong to Conduct Mass Testing of All Residents for COVID-19
Hong Kong will test its entire population of some seven million people for COVID-19 next month as the city battles its worst outbreak. Local authorities made the announcement Tuesday and predicted it will take seven days to carry out the mass screening. Professor Lau Yu-lung, who chairs the government’s scientific committee on vaccine-preventable diseases, said…
Hong Kong Orders Mandatory COVID-19 Tests for All Residents
HONG KONG—Hong Kong will test its entire population of 7.5 million people for COVID-19 in March, the city’s leader said Tuesday, as it grapples with its worst outbreak mainly caused by the Omicron variant. The population will be tested three times in March, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said. She said testing capacity will…
Hong Kong Says Anti-Virus Controls Might Be Tightened
February 20, 2022
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HONG KONG— Stringent anti-virus controls that ban public gatherings in Hong Kong of more than two people might be tightened to stop a surge in infections, the territory’s top health official said Sunday, as 14 deaths and more than 6,000 new cases were reported. Health Secretary Sophia Chan, speaking on a radio program, gave no…
Kick China Out of Interpol
Commentary Interpol is supposed to be a respected international police organization, for collaboration to nab murderers and rapists. But when the world’s worst criminals get control, it starts to look closer to terrorism or the mafia. That is the sorry state of international policing as Interpol refuses to help Hongkongers who are fleeing persecution from…
‘No-COVID’ Policy Drags on Hong Kong Economy as Cases Surge
HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s Fung Shing Restaurant was bustling this week as customers came for one last taste of the traditional Cantonese dim sum that has made it famous. With COVID-19 restrictions cutting too deeply into its bottom line, the restaurant will shut its doors for good on Sunday, another economic victim of the pandemic. Many…
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