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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has warned that Covid-19 infections could be growing exponentially in a congested residential area of the city and that overall cases had also spread due to an outbreak in pet hamsters.

A second Kwai Chung apartment block, home to more than 2,000 people, would be shut down for 5 days. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned that COVID-19 infections could be growing exponentially in a congested residential area of the city and that overall cases had also spread due to an outbreak in pet hamsters.

Hong Kong kung fu master and film producer Checkley Sin Kwok Lam said on Wednesday he intended to run in the city's leadership race, a surprise move t

The 65-year-old is the first person to announce their candidacy ahead of the election on March 27.

In a YouTube video, Sin said his internet supporters convinced him to change his mind on not getting involved in politics.

One year ago this week, Hong Kong authorities raided Apple Daily’s offices and arrested the pro-democracy news outlet’s founder, Jimmy Lai. Lai’s arrest was one of the first under the new national security law. The regulation — enacted to bring stability to the city following the 2019 anti-government protests — has been widely criticized as…

May 7, 2021 Share Public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) is bound by its charter to be editorially independent and immune from political influence. But a new series, in which Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam interviews political leaders about reforms, is being criticized as testing the limits of that independence. Chief Executive Lam presented the first of the programs, “Get to Know the Election Committee Subsectors,” on April 28. In the series, she discusses political refo...

Hong Kong’s Election Overhaul in Context Hong Kongers protest the extradition bill in June 2019. (Studio Incendo, https://flic.kr/p/2gf6Ndr; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) On March 30, Chinese lawmakers passed legislation that will dramatically overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system. That legislation—which takes the form of amendments to Hong Kong’s Basic Law—does not stand alone: It appears to be the third in a recent raft of laws that consolidate Beijing’s...

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