The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday it has picked a new head of its center charged with vaccine approvals and other biologics products: Dr. Vinay Prasad, a vocal critic of the agency’s moves to greenlight COVID-19 vaccine boosters. Prasad replaces Dr. Peter Marks, who served as the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation…
行政長官李家超昨天稱，內地五一黃金周5天假期共約有110萬名旅客來港，按年增加22%，內地旅客增長約20%，非內地旅客上升約30%。以單日計，最多內地旅客來港是5月2日，有26.7萬人次，按年上升約四成，當日非內地旅客亦按年上升約44%。 李家超：丁財兩旺經濟效益大 他表示，黃金周的大量旅客帶動多個行業，做多了很多生意，例如酒吧和食肆的生意有增長，中環蘭桂坊酒吧透露增長達四成至五成；零售業界指出珠寶、化妝品及海味等生意上升約四成。李家超直言，今次黃金周丁財兩旺、市面喜氣洋洋，帶來信心及重大經濟效益。 另外，由政務司司長陳國基領導的「節慶安排跨部門工作小組」提到，內地入境旅行團方面，黃金周期間共有超過900個內地入境旅行團接近3.3萬人次到港，過夜行程佔約70%，旅行團數目大幅超越去年同期60%，而酒店入住率普遍達到90%。 文化體育及旅遊局局長羅淑佩在立法會經濟發展事務委員會會議上說，今年首季錄得1220萬名訪港旅客，按年多9%，是疫情後的季度新高，去年整體過夜旅客近2200萬人次，佔總旅客量約一半，平均留港3.2晚。她補充，政府在2025/26年度向旅發局撥款超過12億元推動旅遊業發 Source link
It was around 1892. My Gateshead grandma, a small child then, was off to the dressmaker’s on her own. Her mam was dead and her riveter dad was busy organising a union at his shipyard. “What colour shall I ask for?” she asked him. “Just tell her you’re a socialist,” he laughed. So she became…
Celebrities and designers alike flocked to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or the MET) to celebrate the museum’s 77th annual Met Gala on Monday, May 5. The Met Gala may seem like a frivolous show of wealth, but it is so much more than that. The gala serves to celebrate the fashion industry and to…
New research commissioned by Alpro highlights trending consumer breakfast habits, revealing 68% of Brits acknowledge a healthy breakfast is vital for a good start to the day, yet only a third (33%) try to avoid or limit sugars at breakfast. Despite 96% of Brits valuing healthy eating, 45% choose convenience over nutrition at breakfast. The…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will allow the Trump administration to implement its policy barring transgender people from serving in the military while legal proceedings move forward. The high court agreed to pause a lower court order that had blocked the administration from implementing its ban nationwide. The Justice Department sought…
Britain and India agreed to a trade deal on Tuesday, strengthening economic ties between two of the world’s largest economies amid President Trump’s upheaval of the global trade system. The deal, which the British government said would increase bilateral trade by 25.5 billion pounds ($34 billion), comes three years after the negotiations began. Intense talks…
Minutes from the high-end boutiques of SoHo in Manhattan sits Bergen Logistics’ fulfillment facility in North Bergen, New Jersey, where workers sort, package, and ship hundreds of packages a day for luxury fashion brands including Acne Studios, Kenzo, and Phillip Lim. The workers themselves can’t realistically afford the ornate gowns and crisp suits they ship…
Hong Kong Air Cargo has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Turkish Cargo on 22 April 2025, marking a key milestone in strengthening strategic cooperation between the two carriers. The MoU outlines a mutual commitment to explore deeper collaboration in air cargo operations, focusing on codeshare arrangements, freighter aircraft cooperation, and…
WASHINGTON — In the Oval Office on Tuesday, President Donald Trump said Houthi rebels in Yemen have agreed to stop attacking merchant vessels and other ships following a weekslong, daily bombing campaign by the U.S. that the military says struck the small country in southern Arabia more than 1,000 times and killed hundreds since it began…