Tag: Hong Kong

Female inmates working night shifts to produce millions of face masks

Epidemic came after months of tumultuous anti-govt protests that had already led to a sharp increase in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder

Lai, a self-made millionaire, has been a major financial patron of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement

The handling of the coronavirus issue ‘connects all Hong Kong people in terms of anti-government sentiment’

Church officials say ‘disappointing’ measures introduced at crucial time

‘We are dangerously close to a massive community outbreak comparable to SARS,’ medical staff union says

Medical workers in the former British colony are striking to force the govt to completely close the city's borders with mainland China

Total number of confirmed cases in China had risen about 30 percent to 2,744

More than 7,000 protesters have been arrested amid seven months of unrest

Similar charges of ‘soliciting prostitutes’ were levied at a Hong Kong employee of the British consulate detained while visiting the mainland last August