Jul 07, 2022 10:23 AM ISTHong Kong is suspending a rule that banned individual flights for bringing in COVID-19 patients, as it caused "unnecessary trouble" and inconvenience to residents of the global financial hub, the government said on Thursday.
Jul 04, 2022 10:34 AM IST The move, announced on the same day China and Hong Kong launched ETF Connect, and came after similar schemes facilitating cross-border stock and bond investments, represents the latest efforts toward financial integration
Jul 01, 2022 05:21 PM IST As Xi Jinping, China’s leader, visits Hong Kong to mark the 25th anniversary of the handover from Britain, he arrives in a city vastly transformed from three years ago, when millions took to the streets in the biggest challenge to Beijing’s rule in decades.
Jul 01, 2022 06:45 AM IST After Xi began his first visit to the city since 2017, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China had failed meet its commitment to respect a "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement agreed under the deal that ended British colonial rule in 1997.
Jun 30, 2022 04:51 PM IST Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Hong Kong on June 30 ahead of the 25th anniversary of the British handover and after a two-year transformation bringing the city more tightly under Communist Party control. It is Xi’s first trip outside of mainland China in nearly 2 and half years.
Jun 30, 2022 01:39 PM IST Xi’s visit, via high-speed rail, is his first to the city since 2017 and the first known trip outside mainland China in over two years amid the COVID-19 epidemic
Jun 29, 2022 02:36 PM IST On Wednesday, Hong Kong reported more than 2,000 new coronavirus illnesses.
Jun 27, 2022 06:50 AM IST The trip will be Xi's first known visit outside mainland China since January 2020 after the COVID-19 outbreak. He will also attend the inaugural ceremony of the sixth-term government of Hong Kong, Xinhua added.
Jun 24, 2022 07:05 AM IST These insiders describe an ongoing sense of paranoia and paralysis, along with an unsettling realization that the sky-high growth rates of the past two decades are likely never coming back.
Jun 22, 2022 01:03 PM IST The Jumbo Floating Restaurant, almost 80 meters (260 feet) in length, had been a landmark in Hong Kong for over four decades, serving Cantonese cuisine to over 3 million guests including Queen Elizabeth II and Tom Cruise.
Jun 21, 2022 12:26 PM IST The restaurant closed in March 2020, citing the Covid-19 pandemic as the final straw after almost a decade of financial woes.
Jun 10, 2022 04:18 PM IST Hong Kong is ranked the world’s most expensive city to live in for expats in 2022, bolstered by higher prices and a stronger currency over the past year. Many mainland Chinese cities have continued to rise in the rankings, with four cities now included in the 15 most expensive cities globally. The research was carried out in March.
May 31, 2022 01:16 PM IST China’s cabinet unveiled a package of 33 measures covering fiscal, financial, investment and industrial policies on Tuesday to revive a pandemic-ravaged economy, saying it will inspect how provincial governments implement them.
May 08, 2022 10:58 AM IST As the only candidate in the polls, Lee is expected to win easily, especially since he has Beijing's endorsement and last month obtained 786 nominations from members of the Election Committee in support of his candidacy.
May 03, 2022 05:38 PM IST Gross domestic product for the first quarter of 2022 contracted by 4 percent from a year earlier, according to advance government figures released on Tuesday.
Apr 26, 2022 06:38 PM IST According to the Hong Kong government, immigration and quarantine requirements are currently in place for passengers landing in or transiting through Hong Kong, including presenting a negative COVID-19 test result.
Apr 22, 2022 05:29 PM IST Hong Kong's rules for airlines that carry infected COVID-19 patients will also be eased slightly, the government said in a statement on Friday, with the threshold for suspending incoming flights rising to five infected passengers from three currently.
Apr 18, 2022 07:54 AM IST All international passengers are required to take a post-flight COVID-19 test at the airport premises in Hong Kong.
Apr 14, 2022 11:30 AM IST The Chinese-ruled city has been hit by a fifth wave of coronavirus since early this year that has battered business and led to more than 8,600 deaths, many in the past two months, although cases have dropped in recent days.
Apr 13, 2022 04:26 PM IST Canadian-Hong Konger Franchesca Wong appears in the show with visibly darker skin and a clip posted by a colleague on Instagram showed her applying make-up to her legs.
Apr 06, 2022 05:33 PM IST Carrie Lam, the embattled incumbent leader who has seen her popularity slide, said on Monday she would not seek a second term, citing family considerations.
Apr 04, 2022 11:23 AM IST Media reports have said that Hong Kong's second most senior official, Chief Secretary John Lee, was planning to resign to run for the Chinese-ruled city's in May
Apr 04, 2022 07:07 AM IST Even as second-hand vehicle prices break records in the U.S. and other countries, people in Hong Kong are struggling to offload their cars as a surge of residents move out of the city after two years of punishing Covid restrictions.
Mar 21, 2022 09:10 AM IST "From April 1, Hong Kong government will remove flight bans on nine countries," she said, lifting restrictions that have been in place since early January, when the Omicron variant first emerged in the finance hub.
Mar 17, 2022 04:17 PM IST Hong Kong has been brought to its knees by the omicron variant as an overwhelmed health system has left the sick to fend for themselves. After keeping the virus mostly at bay, now about half of the city’s population has been infected
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