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Hong Kong vaccines: information overload, lack of context provoking ‘unnecessary’ fears of Sinovac jabs, experts say A health care worker prepares a dose of China s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: Reuters
Hongkongers fears over the safety of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines - exacerbated by recent medical emergencies involving people who received the shots - are an unnecessary side effect of broad reporting guidelines and a failure by authorities to put the events in the proper context, health experts have said.
The city has experienced an apparent plunge in public confidence in the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine since the first death of a recent recipient of the jab was revealed last week. Reports of two more deaths and three other people requiring intensive care after receiving the shots surfaced in the past week.
Souvenirs from around the world: maple syrup from Canada, a jar of Berlin Wall rubble, coffee that’s been through a cat Graffitied panels of the Berlin Wall. Photo: Getty Images
Once upon a time, no self-respecting European tourist would return home from Spain without a straw donkey and a pair of castanets stuffed into their suitcase.
The trend of bringing souvenirs back from trips abroad has declined among Europeans over the decades, however. Until travel was curtailed by Covid-19, they were more likely to stock up on duty free booze and cigarettes before boarding the plane home. Globally, though, stocking up on holiday mementos is bigger business than ever.
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Prince Harry’s ex-butler tells world to eat rice with ‘knife and fork or chopsticks’, sparking online backlash in Asia Grant Harrold, self-proclaimed ‘etiquette expert’ and a former butler to Britain’s royal family. Photo: Twitter
Social media users from across Asia have hit out at a former butler to the British royal family after he said on Twitter that people should not eat rice with their hands or fingers .
Grant Harrold, a self-proclaimed etiquette expert who previously worked for Britain s Prince Charles and his sons William and Harry, made the offending post on Saturday. It has since garnered more than 10,000 replies.