At least two banks in Hong Kong have introduced relief measures for home mortgage borrowers hurt by the coronavirus outbreak, in a move analysts say could help lower foreclosures in an economy already ...More
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... uding the two households with the confirmed patients. So far 23 households had left their residences, Chan added. The partial evacuation at Hong Mei House was a “precautionary measure for the safety o ...More
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Police are looking for two people who disobeyed the government's quarantine regulations and went incommunicado, a development that points to the difficulties involved in tightly enforcing the rules th ...More
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A Chinese media company said it will lay off 500 employees due to the coronavirus outbreak, the latest among a string of firms to do so in the past two weeks as the epidemic takes a toll on small-to-m ...More
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... its stock two years ago, Reuters reports. The move to merge the two units come as global automakers pursue alliances to respond better to the cost of switching to electric cars, tougher emission rules ...More
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... at one or two of the three Hong Kong Disneyland Hotels may be considered for the purpose. They pointed out that the idea has solid merits. First, as the Disneyland Hotels are not far away from to the ...More
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... home for two weeks, they finally decide to get some fresh air. Ah, the young and the restless. The bank said it would issue warning letters to the sixsome, and require them to inform the office of wh ...More
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... ng one or two weeks as Hubei, where the outbreak started, imposed quarantine since the beginning of this month. Hopefully, as the number of newly confirmed cases starts to come down, economic activiti ...More
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... at least two arenas for potential miscalculation, either in China’s broader geopolitical ambitions or in the management of the domestic financial system. For the US-Chinese trade de-escalation to hol ...More
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More than 300 Chinese companies are seeking bank loans totaling at least 57.4 billion yuan (US$8.2 billion) to help to soften the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reports, citing two bankin ...More
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A week ago, only two laboratories in Africa could diagnose the novel coronavirus that originated in China and is rapidly spreading around the world. As of Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) e ...More
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... ntine for two weeks upon arriving in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 3, after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was diagnosed with the virus. About 3,700 people are aboard the ship, which usually h ...More
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(First of a two-part series) The coronavirus outbreak has sparked panic-buying in Hong Kong, with residents snapping up all the surgical masks they could find as well as daily necessities such as rice ...More
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... r men and two women, aged 26 to 57, were arrested on charges of obstructing a police officer in execution of duty or for loitering. Zoe Leung Hin-yan, a member of the Sai Kung District Council, later ...More
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(Second of a two-part series) "Virtual waiting room" technology firm Queue-it, launched in 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, provides a first-in, first-out online waiting system for transactional websites, ...More
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... elatives, two more have shown symptoms and are currently confined at Prince of Wales Hospital for treatment. Dr. Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of the CHP's Communicable Disease Branch, told a press conferenc ...More
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... . “I have two-year-old sheep who are seeing green grass for the first time.” Bushfire warning signs were almost swamped by floods in several areas as the weekend rainfall cut power to tens of thousand ...More
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... untry for two weeks prior to the event, GSMA said. Some 5,000-6,000 visitors typically come from China to the world’s premier telecoms industry gathering, where companies spend millions on stands and ...More
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... rity. The two sides are unlikely to agree on any major legislation this year, though, as they fight for control of the White House and Congress in the November elections. The budget would raise milita ...More
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... en nearly two weeks to get the government’s green light on its composition, which was not announced, other than to say that WHO veteran Dr. Bruce Aylward, a Canadian epidemiologist and emergencies exp ...More
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