Hong Kong third wave: city’s oldest bookshop to close after more than 100 years

The coronavirus pandemic claimed another victim on Wednesday, as Hong Kong’s oldest bookshop announced it would be closing after more than 100 years and moving operations online.Swindon Bookstore said it would shut its Lock Road outlet in the heart of the city on Thursday, where it has been since 1918.Generations of Hongkongers have grown up with the English bookshop, with its signature marble shopfront and the golden fonts of its name surviving world wars, and the city’s boom and bust, at its…

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