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‘Two sessions’ 2025: China hits out at US Pacific policy ‘failure’, tariffs war – as it happened

Cs news4 months ago01 mins

This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. New users who download our updated app get a seven-day free trial. Foreign Minister Wang Yi faced the press on Friday morning to lay out Beijing’s foreign policy direction. This came as China…

Hongkongers to get faster, cheaper access to new medicines with improved procurement system

Cs news8 months ago02 mins

Hongkongers will have quicker and cheaper access to new medications when the Hospital Authority starts centralising new drug assessments and improving its procurement system to cut introduction times to its formulary by five months. The authority’s chief pharmacist, William Chui Chun-ming, said on Thursday doctors would no longer need to go through the assessment at…