カテゴリー: Hong Kong
Doctors from the mainland are treating patients and Chinese workers are building hospitals as Beijing’s presence is felt like never beforeSee all our coronavirus coverageTraffic is busier than usual in Lok Ma Chau, a village on Hong Kong’s northern bor…
China will shut down city in two stages as it sticks to a ‘zero-Covid’ strategy amid growing outbreaksShanghai has begun its phased lockdown as an Omicron-fuelled Covid-19 wave spreads through mainland China’s most significant financial hub, resulting …
Ban on flights from nine countries lifted for fully vaccinated residents and quarantine reduced to seven daysHong Kong will lift a ban on flights from nine countries and reduce hotel quarantine alongside a “roadmap” towards eased restrictions that sugg…
Two deaths reported on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as China continues to pursue ‘zero-Covid’ strategySee all our coronavirus coverageChina’s national health authorities reported two Coronavirus deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in…
Low vaccination rates among the elderly, low rates of prior infection and an overwhelmed healthcare system have contributed to create the perfect stormSee all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong has recorded 5,000 Covid deaths and more than 1 million cas…
‘We will not be silenced,’ says CEO after government accuses Hong Kong Watch of endangering China’s national securityA UK-based rights group has pledged not to remain silent after Hong Kong’s government demanded it shut its website and accused it of en…
‘Dynamic zero-Covid policy’ under scrutiny in region with highest death rate in developed world Staff meetings are often mundane affairs and rarely end in tears. But on Wednesday Ho Hiu-fai, the accident and emergency chief at Hong Kong’s Queen Elizabe…
Revolution of Our Times looks at the 2019 demonstrations, which some Taiwanese saw as a warning sign about their own futureA film on the pro-democracy protests that rocked Hong Kong in 2019 has broken a box office record in Taiwan for an overseas Chine…
The temporary bridge will aid work on a makeshift hospital as the city’s Covid death rate reaches world’s highest per 1m peopleRead all our coronavirus coverageA temporary bridge linking Shenzhen and Hong Kong has been erected to help workers and mater…
Government is planning to test entire population for virus but insists it will not impose ‘complete lockdown’Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSoaring Covid-19 cases in Hong Kong have led to court services being suspended for …
City, which is pursuing a zero-Covid strategy, is registering thousands of cases a day in its worst-ever wave of the virusHong Kong’s government has invoked emergency powers to allow doctors and nurses from the Chinese mainland to practise in the finan…
The journalist’s career was dramatically paused when Stand News was raided – and now he is in limboThree months ago Ronson Chan was working as deputy assignment editor at Stand News, one of Hong Kong’s independent and pro-democracy news sites. His job …
Dozens of live-in workers have been forced to sleep rough in the Hong Kong winter after bosses refuse to allow them back in the houseLive-in domestic workers in Hong Kong have been left homeless after they were diagnosed with Covid-19 and their employe…
Carrie Lam announces mandatory mass testing as virus surge threatens to overwhelm healthcare systemCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe entire population of nearly 7.5 million people in Hong Kong will have to undergo mandator…
Construction crews from mainland China will help build isolation units, Carrie Lam said See all our coronavirus coverageHong Kong reported 15 coronavirus deaths and more than 6,000 confirmed cases for a second day in a surge the Chinese territory’s lea…