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The chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants, Simon Wong, says in the trade have needed to temporarily shut down now that new regulations designed to space out diners has come into force. He told Annemarie Evans that financial assistance is ...

Civic Party lawmaker Dr Kwok Ka-ki has proposed that venues like the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai could be converted into makeshift hospitals, to help ease the pressure on the public healthcare system. The Hospital Authority says isolat...

Hong Kong recorded 65 new cases of the coronavirus on Friday - its biggest daily total so far. And there have been more infections linked to several bars and band members who performed there. But as Timmy Sung reports, health authorities have stopped s...

Renowned University of Hong Kong virologist, Professor Malik Peiris said the jump in the number of new cases in Hong Kong was a worrying trend. He told Annemarie Evans determined action was necessary to stem the spread.

Legal expert Simon Young says the arrest of the chairwoman of the Central and Western District Council, Cheng Lai-king, under a rarely-used colonial era law, raises many legal issues that the courts will have to address if she is ever prosecuted. Cheng...

A survey of 360 low-income people has found that more than a third of them have lost their jobs since the Lunar New Year. According to Oxfam Hong Kong and three other groups that conducted the study, the pandemic is hitting low-paid workers in sectors...

The president of the Hong Kong Medical Association, Ho Chung-ping, says he's confident that people here will heighten their vigilance against Covid-19 amid a recent surge in the number of cases. He was speaking after Executive Councillor Lam Ching-choi...