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Venice 2021: Hong Kong’s ambition on show at the architecture biennale, while titanium sculptor Wallace Chan keeps faith with the Italian city An advert for the Biennale Architettura 2021 on Venice’s Palazzo San Giustinian in Italy. Photo: John Brunton
As the vaporetto water bus slowly steams past majestic palaces, it is evident life has not yet returned to normal in Venice. Italy may be slowly coming out of its latest lockdown but the waters of the Grand Canal remain eerily calm, and the vaporetto does not have to weave through a flotilla of gondolas and water taxis full of tourists. La Serenissima is still anxiously awaiting their return.
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Taiwan-Hong Kong ties in jeopardy over work permits Lawrence Chung lawrence.chung@scmp.com Chiu Chui-cheng, vice-chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, says the eight Taiwanese officials in Hong Kong will continue working as long as they can. Photo: CNA
Taiwan-Hong Kong relations might revert to basic interactions as was the case decades ago because of problems with the renewal of the work permits needed by officials to work in each other s jurisdiction, observers said.
The two sides have been in a long-running dispute over Hong Kong s refusal to send local man Chan Tong-kai, who is suspected of murdering his girlfriend during a 2018 visit to Taiwan to stand trial on the island.