Hong Kong

Hong Kong reported a total of 9,708 new Covid-19 infections on Sunday, the highest daily tally in five months. The case count included 213 imported cases, health officials said at a briefing Sunday. There were 10 new Covid patients in…
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Hong Kong’s move to halt flight bans removed one of the biggest headaches for travellers. Yet residents who want to go abroad still face another hurdle: Finding a hotel quarantine room for their return. The city’s 24,000 designated hotel…
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More than two dozen crew on an engineering vessel with 30 people on board were missing after it snapped in two in waters off Hong Kong as tropical storm Chaba passed through, authorities said. Three crew members were rescued, and search…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Hong Kong Thursday, prompting a massive security effort ahead of celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the city's handover to communist China. Government leaders have been forced…
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Hong Kong’s incoming government is considering cutting the time inbound travellers must spend in hotel quarantine, the latest shift in a costly and chaotic policy that’s kept the financial hub from opening up to the world. The city may…
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Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Hong Kong next week to mark the 25th anniversary of the former British colony’s 1997 return to China, state news agency Xinhua announced on Saturday, in what would be his first publicised trip outside…
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A fire in northern Hong Kong left more than 160,000 homes without power, resulting in the city’s largest blackout in recent memory. High-voltage cables on a bridge in Yuen Long caught fire at about 7:10 p.m. on Tuesday, triggering outages…
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Hong Kong will relax some Covid-19 testing requirements for incoming passengers as the city takes small steps toward easing travel restrictions. While travellers still need a nucleic acid test within 48 hours of the scheduled departure of…
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More than two years after the novel coronavirus triggered a pandemic, the world is still dealing with variants and waves of the deadly virus. China - widely believed to be 'ground zero' for Covid-19 - has seen yet another spikes in cases…
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The US State Department asked Americans to reconsider travel to China and avoid visiting virus hotspots including Shanghai due to what it calls an “arbitrary enforcement” of Covid-19 restrictions amid the country’s worst outbreak. In a…
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