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Hong Kong facing critical moment in seizing Greater Bay Area opportunities, warns trading tycoon
Hong Kong cannot afford to miss the opportunities offered by the Greater Bay Area development and must re-establish the city’s lost position as the business centre for overseas Chinese, leading…
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Inspection finds peeling walls and residue at US plant that ruined 15m Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses
Food and Drug Administration report describes concerning conditions at Baltimore site where manufacturing was halted A US Food and Drug Administration inspection report found unsanitary conditions and other problems at…
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Audience of 4,000 to attend Brit awards as part of Covid research
People will not wear face coverings or socially distance but will be asked to provide negative test Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage A live audience of…
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Why job creation won’t solve Hong Kong’s unemployment problem
Rising unemployment has been roiling Hong Kong’s economy since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recently, Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung revealed that about 35,500 young people were jobless between…
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Luxury stores play nice with Chinese professional shoppers they once frowned upon, as brands’ sales and profits plummet
Expensively dressed Chinese professional shoppers, or daigou, were once a regular sight in the glossy boutiques of New Bond Street and on the more rarefied floors of Harrods, Harvey Nichols…
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The Guardian view on textocracy: bring politics back into the open | Editorial
The pandemic justified urgency in decision-making, but the government uses it to evade scrutiny and shirk accountability The pandemic has driven much activity that used to be conducted in public…
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Lockdown has allowed British people to indulge their curtain-twitching vices | Joel Golby
If you’re not going out having a beer in the sun, you’re probably at home tutting really loudly about those who do I went to Soho in central London last…
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India’s shocking surge in Covid cases follows baffling decline
Analysis: Rapid spread of cases across country comes after long spell in which virus seemed almost to vanish Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage More than a…
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As a second wave of coronavirus overwhelms India’s hospitals, desperate relatives turn to WhatsApp for help
On the last day of his father’s life, in between frantically working the phones to find a hospital bed, Swapnil Rastogi, 26, kept patting and reassuring him. He could see…