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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

News

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

News

New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

Forty-six sudden deaths leave community in shock New BA.2 strain producing worrying results in trials Health officials’ worst fears have emerged in densely populated city A KILLER HAS COME TO TOWN. In Hong Kong, 46 lives have been snatched at high speed by a strain of Covid in a shocked city which has been astonishingly free of…

February 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Hong Kong lacks the healthcare facilities to ‘live with the virus’

The city doesn’t have enough hospital beds to follow UK model Numbers will hit 10,000 within days at current rates of growth China’s 2-4-24 strategy to protect citizens has been shown to work Mainland techniques such as universal testing can be implemented here HONG KONG IS NOW reporting the highest number of Covid-19 infections since…

February 14, 20220Comments ByChow Pak-chin

Opinion

We need to work harder on branding Hong Kong

Attempts to create a clear and positive brand for Hong Kong have been made for 20 years, but we all need to work together to make a success of it, argues Dr Norman Law CITY BRANDING, WHICH deals primarily with planning, organizing and communicating the image of a city, has been on the agenda of…

February 14, 20220Comments ByNorman Law

Features

Hong Kongers who have retired over the border

MANY HONG KONG people have opted to go north for retirement. Currently, more than 500,000 Hongkongers, many of them elderly people, have already moved to the Mainland. They benefit from the SAR government’s special schemes for Guangdong and Fujian, which allow eligible seniors across the border to receive monthly welfare payments from Hong Kong.…

February 4, 20220Comments ByH.C. Lu

Features

How Hong Kong youngsters are getting TikTok back

IF YOU LIVE IN Hong Kong, you’re officially banned from accessing TikTok, the world’s fastest growing social app. But ever since the US branch of the company blocked Hongkongers from accessing it, smart youngsters have been getting around the problem. Keep reading and we’ll show you how to do it too. Or check out the…

January 31, 20220Comments ByAleesha Naqvi

Opinion

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here. HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…

January 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Most HK age groups hit the 90% jabbed mark

Tai chi: the fighting steps that bring us peace

Bridge-builder reveals childhood illness that changed his life

Wave of pledges as Hong Kong people pull together

New strain of Covid is stalking, killing people in this town

Hong Kong lacks the healthcare facilities to ‘live with the virus’

We need to work harder on branding Hong Kong

Hong Kongers who have retired over the border

How Hong Kong youngsters are getting TikTok back

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

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