As the novel coronavirus cases rose in number, there has been a growing sense of panic among Hong Kong people, prompting the citizens to scramble for face masks, among other things. Now, we need to as ...More
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... rs in the week of Feb. 11-17, when travel curbs on workers returning from the prolonged Lunar New Year holiday forced ports to operate with skeleton staffing. That was around 15 hours longer than the ...More
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... lier this week that using the term "pandemic" doesn't fit the facts yet. "We must focus on containment while preparing for a potential pandemic,” he stressed. No matter whether the novel coronavirus i ...More
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... cases on Wednesday, Brazil confirmed Latin America’s first infection and the new disease – Covid-19 – was also detected for the first time in Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Romania and Algeria. US ...More
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... Tsai Ing-wen said while overseeing troops tasked with disinfection on Thursday morning. “We will integrate all government resources to fight against the threats of the coronavirus.” The island has la ...More
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... r outlook were unchanged. "Although we see strong Windows demand in line with our expectations, the supply chain is returning to normal operations at a slower pace than anticipated," the company said ...More
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An Apple shareholder proposal critical of the company’s app removals in China received a relatively high level of support at the iPhone maker’s annual meeting on Wednesday, enough to push the company ...More
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... court, however, Circuit Judge Margaret McKeown said YouTube was a private forum despite its “ubiquity” and public accessibility, and hosting videos did not make it a “state actor” for purposes of the ...More
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Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said in his budget speech on Wednesday that the government will earmark HK$18.3 billion to support businesses that have been hit by the economic downturn following ...More
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... when can we actually consider the epidemic as over? Well, judging from all the professional assessments that are available at this stage, there seems to be a consensus on one point: the novel coronav ...More
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Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po on Wednesday unveiled a fixed-rate mortgage loan scheme to support the property sector and enable more citizens to acquire homes. “The residential property market h ...More
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The stock market correction that started recently was again led by the technology sector. Yes, a leading sector tends to lead both ups and downs in cycles. We all know that tech has been the leader: C ...More
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... ks, which we already witnessing, will intensify in the near term. In Hong Kong, where the city's leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has admitted recently that the government’s efforts to procure surgic ...More
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... rmit last week. “It’s crazy that we are in 2020 preparing ourselves to send people to Mars, and it’s going to happen in our backyard,” Councilman Joe Buscaino, whose district includes the port, said b ...More
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... Hong Kong were already hanging from a thread after months of civil unrest and now the virus has come on top of that,” said Sonny Hsu, senior credit officer for financial institutions group at Moody’s ...More
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... the past week had heightened the agency’s expectations of transmission within the United States. “Disruption to everyday life might be severe,” she cautioned. While saying the immediate risk from the ...More
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... alfway between Norway and the North Pole, and is only opened a few times a year in order to preserve the seeds inside. On Tuesday, 30 gene banks deposited seeds, also including offerings from India, M ...More
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... ng to buy well because it is going to save lives,” he said. Iran’s coronavirus death toll rose to 16, the highest outside China, increasing its international isolation as nations from South Korea to I ...More
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... ations showered him – and the biggest army in the Middle East – with billions of dollars in gratitude for his loyalty to Sadat’s Cold War switch of allegiance and peace with Israel. But it was his str ...More
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