COVID-19 Updates
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong delivery workers in short supply as logistic firms, online retailers face mounting pressure amid panic buying spree
Hong Kong’s recent skyrocketing Covid-19 infections have sparked a manpower crunch and thrown the city’s supply chains into disarray, forcing online retailer HKTVmall and logistics firm SF Express to curtail…
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Sogo owner Lifestyle International reports first loss since 2004 after investment slump dragged down sales, revenue increases last year
Lifestyle International Holdings, which owns and operates Hong Kong’s Sogo department stores, reported a record loss of HK$1.3 billion (US$166 million) for 2021 on Friday, and said it was likely…
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Hong Kong’s Covid-19 woes show administrators alone cannot solve crises
As Mike Enright, his wife Edith and I were putting the finishing touches on our book The Hong Kong Advantage in the spring of 1997, we were spending a lot…
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Fifth death reported in NSW; ‘it’s climate change,’ Palaszczuk says as Qld death toll rises to 10 – as it happened
Body of man in 40s found south of Murwillumbah; death of man, 53, takes Queensland’s flood toll to 10 as premier mourns ‘unprecedented’ disaster; Japanese encephalitis case in Qld; at…
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Coronavirus in China: Shenzhen spike of 96 imported cases driven by Hong Kong’s raging fifth wave
The southern province of Guangdong reported China’s highest number of daily imported Covid-19 cases, accounting for nearly half of the nationwide tally and with all but two cases originating from…
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Obesity rates likely to double by 2030 with highest rises in lower-income countries
More than half of women in South Africa projected to have condition, with no country expected to meet WHO target of halting rise, according to World Obesity Atlas figures More…
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Nearly two-fifths of Hong Kong companies report adverse effects of emigration wave, commerce chamber survey finds
Hong Kong businesses have been wrestling with “brain drain” prompted by a recent emigration wave as nearly two-fifths of companies polled by the city’s largest commerce chamber said they had…
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Unmasking school pupils in New York already feels like yesterday’s news | Emma Brockes
With Ukraine coverage displacing Covid, there’s a strong feeling that the caravan of history has abruptly moved on My children can’t remember a time when they didn’t go to school…
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Hong Kong shops ration food and drugs to curb panic buying amid Covid lockdown fears
Government is planning to test entire population for virus but insists it will not impose ‘complete lockdown’ Two of Hong Kong’s largest consumer retail chains have started rationing some food…