Mainland leaders actively working for Hong Kong’s good

Hong Kong was in the spotlight at the annual meeting of China’s parliament on Monday Vice-Premier focused on the city in special session with 17 Hong Kong deputies Pandemic and livelihood issues are key focuses CHINA’S LEADER XI JINPING personally expressed a high level of concern about the latest pandemic situation in Hong…

March 8, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Wave of pledges as Hong Kong people pull together

YOUNG PEOPLE, property tycoons, pop stars and truck drivers are pulling together to fight the Omicron wave in Hong Kong. There was a wave of pledges yesterday. Here are 12 things that people are doing. Hong Kong youth groups said they’d co-ordinate a free transportation service to move nurses, doctors, and medical goods Property tycoon Peter Lee Ka-kit…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Mainland anti-Covid plan could work in Hong Kong

SOME PEOPLE ARE saying that the “test the whole population” system that worked so well in China could not be implemented in a non-mainland city like Hong Kong, which leans towards Western individualism rather than Chinese cohesiveness. That may not be true. The same Chinese “universal testing” program was tried in Macao, which has…

February 19, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Recycled stadiums helped Olympics keep tight budget

SPEND LESS, ACHIEVE MORE – that was the aim of the financial controllers of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and so far it looks like they’ve done it. The total budget has come in at US$3.07 billion, making it usually good value, since the 2018 games cost US$12.2 billion. How did they do it? To answer…

February 18, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

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Humor spot: Olympics

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How to turn the virus into a health positive

COULD COVID-19 be good for you? Surely not. Yet statistics show that people in mainland China and Hong Kong have turned the coronavirus into a positive factor for public health in some ways, at least. The Chinese response has been very thorough: as a result, they prevented hundreds of thousands of people from catching the virus…

December 1, 2021276Comments ByFriday Writers

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UK’s anti-China lobby is facing ‘nightmare’

Wealthy activists outraged to have their work scrutinized

November 30, 20212KComments ByFriday Writers

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How Hong Kong conquered Omicron but others won’t

OMICRON FLEW INTO Hong Kong on November 11 hiding in the nasal passages of a passenger from South Africa. The man was fully vaccinated and would have been allowed to roam freely, maskless, infecting hundreds with the new Covid-19 variant, had he travelled to other places. But Hong Kong’s tough rules forced him to stay masked at all times,…

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