The number of trips to Hong Kong by mainland Chinese visitors rose 27 per cent year on year as the 2024 tally reached 34 million, according to official figures, with observers saying the uptick is likely to continue but expressing doubt over its economic impact. Hong Kong also recorded a 48 per cent year-on-year surge…
President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he regrets not putting his name on pandemic relief checks in 2021, something President-elect Donald Trump did during his first term. What Did Biden Say? Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., Biden highlighted his economic achievements before bringing up the pandemic relief checks sent out by…
TOPSHOT – A staff member of the Congolese Ministry of Health prepares the sampling equipment to … [+] perform a COVID-19 test at a private residence in Goma, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on March 31, 2020. One positive case of COVID-19 coronavirus was reported on March 30, 2020 in Goma, capital of North Kivu…
Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China and economy stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Mainland China sanctions 13 US companies over weapons sales to Taiwan Mainland China has slapped sanctions on 13 US defence companies, along with executives of other firms,…
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Tropical Storm Toraji may have seemed largely a non-event to those braced for violent weather. What set it apart is that the city’s stock exchange broke with past practice by trading normally. By contrast, the Jockey Club abandoned the last three races of a nine-race card at Happy Valley on Wednesday night ahead of a…
The English competency of Hong Kong’s Form Three students has dropped to its lowest level in nearly two decades, with education sector leaders attributing the fall to learning challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Proficiency in Chinese, English and maths among Primary Three pupils also fell to their worst levels in about 20 years. The…
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Hong Kong employees this year received the smallest pay rise since the latter stages of the pandemic at 3.2 per cent, but they could expect better packages and employment opportunities next year, a human resources professionals representative said on Thursday. The Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management revealed that employees in the city enjoyed…
Your cellphone may represent a serious threat to biosecurity and may facilitate the spread of future pandemics. When you travel, you never fly alone. Of course, every one of us carries around trillions of microorganisms in our guts and on our skin—that’s unavoidable. But the majority of us carry around a second bacterial breeding ground:…