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Government vacancies still attract jobseekers, Hong Kong civil service chief says after about 2,000 resignations in the past year Patrick Nip says there could be many reasons behind resignations, such as family, personal plans or health issues He says job stability, good pay packages still attract candidates to public service, adding that authorities recently received 14,000 new job applications

Travellers on the route – which attracted 15 to 20 flights a day each way before the pandemic – won't have to quarantine and there will be no restrictions on the purpose of travel. However, if the seven-day moving average of the daily number of unlinked local Covid-19 cases is more than five for either Singapore or Hong Kong, the scheme will be suspended, Yau and Ong said. "The relaunch ... signifies that gradual resumption of cross-border travel is achievable through mutual collaborations among different places," said Yau. For Hong Kong, which has banned non-residents from entering the c...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that based on its investigations, all the locally transmitted cases are in the community and none are from the dormitories. MOH said all five cases had already been placed under quarantine earlier. - The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, April 24 (The Straits Times/ANN): There were five new cases of locally transmitted Covid-19 infection confirmed on Saturday afternoon (April 24). The Ministry of Health (MOH) said that based on its investigations, all are in the community and none are from the dormitories. MOH said all five cases had already been placed under quar...

The Latest: US, other nations help with COVAX vaccine effort The Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 23 1of23Secretary of State Antony Blinken announces his appointment of Gayle Smith as the new State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response and Health Security as he speaks about U.S. leadership in fighting the coronavirus pandemic at the State Department in Washington, Monday, April 5, 2021. (Al Drago/Pool via AP)Al Drago/APShow MoreShow Less 2of23World Health organization Director for Europe Hans Kluge speaks to media during a press conference where he said he would...

Hong Kong’s recent electoral overhaul, national security law can’t be viewed apart, civil service chief tells staff In a meeting two days after last week’s sweeping revamp was endorsed, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip says the specifics have to be interpreted alongside existing security legislation Both are part of a ‘one-two punch’ necessary to maintain the ‘one country, two systems’ principle, civil servants told as they are encouraged to help promote Beijing-imposed changes