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Instant hospitals give Hong Kong a fighting chance

Numbers of available beds rises fast as facilities come on line Vax rate for elderly rises, for 40-somethings hits 99.88 per cent Hong Kong has always been a survivor, says Chief Executive Carrie Lam Many community medical facilities are actually hotels, including some luxury ones AN “INSTANT HOSPITAL” was built in a week in…

March 10, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Features

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

Opinion

Hong Kong, mainland join hands to fight pandemic

THE NUMBER OF CASES of Covid-19 in Hong Kong has skyrocketed since the Lunar New Year. It is heartbreaking to learn of the passing away of hundreds of our citizens, including an 11-month-old baby and dozens of elders aged 80 or above. Following five rounds of meetings in Shenzhen chaired by Xia Baolong, director…

March 1, 20220Comments ByHenry Ho

News

Squat toilet or luxury hospital suite? Start praying now

Seven things to know about what's happening as the virus sweeps through Hong Kong 1) YOU WILL HATE THIS As Covid sweeps through Hong Kong, workers have worked day and night to create temporary isolation centers at high speed – but they are NOT luxurious. They are basically container-sized boxes with three beds in…

March 1, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

Hong Kong legal system to go beyond 2047: Teresa Cheng

HONG KONG'S BRITISH-STYLE legal system will carry on past 2047, the city’s legal chief said yesterday. It will not switch to the civil law system used by mainland China and most countries around the world, Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah said last night. “The ‘one country, two systems’ [policy] will continue, and with it,…

February 26, 20220Comments BySeth Mallick

Opinion

Hong Kong should choose cohesiveness over individualism

Communities face a stark choice in fighting Covid, says top Hong Kong lawyer Ambrose Lam San-keung: either we follow mainland China’s united action to save lives, or the West’s preservation of individual rights to sacrifice the vulnerable AS THE SPREAD of the Omicron variant continues to rise in Hong Kong, there has been much…

February 24, 20220Comments ByAmbrose Lam

Culture

Virus silences Cantonese opera, but just for a while

A major Cantonese opera event was due to take place in Hong Kong this week. But the Arts Festival's 50th anniversary celebration of the signature Cantonese operas of Sun Ma Sze Tsang, has been postponed due to the city's Covid precautions. The star, who died in 1997, was due to have his works interpreted by…

February 23, 20220Comments ByLee Chack Fan

Life

Most HK age groups hit the 90% jabbed mark

MOST AGE GROUPS in Hong Kong have reached, surpassed or are fast approaching a 90 per cent jabbed rate, with families way ahead. PARENTS LEAD: “Mum and dad” age groups are ahead, with the 50-somethings at 92% and 40-somethings at a remarkable 96.6%. GRANDPARENTS JOINING: The oldies have been slow but are catching…

February 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Culture

Tai chi: the fighting steps that bring us peace

THE GRACEFUL CHINESE exercise known as Tai Chi Chaun is gradually spreading around the world - and even into the fictional world of Hollywood movies. “I love the idea of having a place I can go every day. I want the connection, the excitement. I wanna be challenged,” says Robert De Niro, playing a retired executive…

February 21, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

ONE OF HONG KONG'S best-known businessman-politicians, Bernard Chan, revealed how a chronic health problem hit him as a teenager—and how learning to paint with a tiny bottle of correction fluid got him back on track. The convenor of the Executive Council, Hong Kong’s top governing body, told a TV interviewer that he was hit by…

February 20, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi