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Amid surge in COVID cases, people fear possible increase of Chinese author
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Hong Kong, March 19 (ANI): As Hong Kong surpassed one million Covid-19 cases since 2020, some are afraid that the government's failure to get the virus under control has accelerated Beijing's authority over the "semiautonomous Chinese territory," reported media.
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Hong Kong COVID-19 cases cross 1 million
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Hong Kong, March 19 (ANI): Hong Kong's COVID-19 case count surpassed 1 million on Friday, amid the fifth and the worst wave of the disease.
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Hong Kong to exclude large companies 'unaffected by COVID fifth wave' from
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Hong Kong, March 19 (ANI): Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that the country will exclude the large supermarkets and pharmacy chains, as well as other businesses from the next round of government wage subsidies, who remain "unaffected" from the fifth-wave of Covid-19 outbreak.
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Alibaba, Tencent look to trim workforce by up to 30 pc
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Hong Kong, March 16 (ANI): It is rumoured in the Chinese social media platform Weibo that tech giants Alibaba and Tencent employees are expecting around 30 per cent job cuts.
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COVID death toll in Hong Kong exceeds that of China's Wuhan
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Hong Kong, March 15 (ANI): COVID-19 deaths in Hong Kong have outnumbered that of China's Wuhan, where the first case was reported in December 2019.
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As Putin's war drags on, China's discomfiture increases
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Hong Kong, March 15 (ANI): There is a lot of conjecture about the strategic relationship between China and Russia, and the degree of knowledge that Chairman Xi Jinping had before President Vladimir Putin launched his lamentable invasion of Ukraine.
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China returns to mass shutdowns as COVID-19 cases surge
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Beijing [China], March 13 (ANI): China has once again resorted to mass shutdowns of its cities, including schools and markets as the country experiences the most significant surge in COVID-19 cases since the early days of the pandemic, media reports said on Saturday.
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Hong Kong's COVID-19 death rate hits highest in world
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Hong Kong, March 10 (ANI): Hong Kong's COVID-19 death rate per million has hit the highest in the world, with the elderly, many of whom were unvaccinated, becoming the prime victim of infection.
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China's defence budget continues to rebound
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Hong Kong, March 8 (ANI): Amidst the gravity of bitter fighting in Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin prosecutes his invasion, China announced its defence budget for 2022 on the opening day of its fifth annual session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC). Usually these annual ann
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Thousands of Hong Kongers leaving city every day due to COVID scare
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Hong Kong, March 7 (ANI): Thousands of residents are leaving Hong Kong every day as the city continues to battle its worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to media reports.
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Eight people sentenced over 'rioting' in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong, March 6 (ANI): As many as eight people were sentenced to prison in Hong Kong on Saturday for participating in "rioting" in Tsim Sha Tsui in August 2019.
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Mainland health experts visit Hong Kong's anti-epidemic community faciliti
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Hong Kong, March 6 (ANI/Xinhua): A team of mainland health experts led by Liang Wannian, head of the COVID-19 response expert panel under China's National Health Commission, on Saturday visited Hong Kong's anti-epidemic facilities in communities to learn about local testing, isolation, and t
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