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Hong Kong reopens: life after quarantine

Hong Kong reopens: life after quarantine
As Hong Kong’s “0+3” scheme ends mandatory hotel quarantine and the city starts rolling out the welcome mat for major international events such as the Hong Kong Sevens and Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in November, all eyes are on how the financial hub will navigate its full reopening to the world.
In Hong Kong’s housing market, secondary prices have been relatively stable since last September, which suggests a bottom has been reached. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong property

The View | Hong Kong property market’s sources of resilience finally getting noticed

The city’s property market will struggle to rise out of its hole, but there is a greater appreciation that it is not all doom and gloom.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong is bouncing back just at the right time for John Lee

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | What a 33-year-old congee chain’s closure says about Hong Kong

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Why the worst may be over for Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s economy is bouncing back, but the government must be committed to technological and political innovation to see the city thrive.

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People visit the Lunar New Year fair at Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on January 25. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hongkonger’s worsening eczema, food allergies fuel her doubts over Covid jabs

Experts say there must be better health communication and efforts to raise awareness in a future pandemic.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong faces hard choices on spending to fix its budget deficit

To get the city’s finances in order, officials must ask what could be cut to pursue attractive new proposals.

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Hong Kong society

Opinion | Hongkongers deserve credit for getting through a tough 2024

If John Lee had hoped to rally people to rise to the challenge of 2025 in his New Year’s address, he should have learned from Xi Jinping’s focus on people.

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A Star Ferry is seen from another ferry as it sails across Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on December 22. Hong Kong’s economic indicators clearly show that the city has yet to recover from the pandemic. Photo: AFP
Tourism

Can Muslim visitors boost tourism in Hong Kong?

Halal-certified food is not easy to find in the city, unfortunately – and language barriers are another challenge.

Hong Kong housing

Opinion | How inaction sustains Hong Kong’s plague of subdivided flats

There is no reason ending the shame of subdivided flats and cage homes should be on the same timeline as humans colonising Mars.

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Hong Kong society

Opinion | How John Lee can secure his legacy beyond national security legislation

The chief executive’s next policy address is best used to unify the city and address housing concerns while leaving geopolitics to Beijing.

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Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu speaks with a resident on a visit to Kai Chuen Shopping Centre in Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin district on September 14. Photo: Eugene Lee
Hong Kong property

Chinachem’s Nina Hospitality aims to move up market, eyes overseas expansion

Nina’s managing director said it is looking at expanding on the mainland and overseas, while becoming an upscale hotel group in Hong Kong.

Nina Hotel Tsuen Wan West pictured on April 21, 2021. Photo: Winson Wong
Cathay Pacific

Opinion | Cathay Pacific should not be scapegoat for Hong Kong’s aviation woes

A look at the numbers suggests Hong Kong’s flag carrier is not to blame for the airport’s slow return to pre-pandemic levels.

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Hong Kong economy

The View | Why Hong Kong’s property market isn’t all doom and gloom

Hong Kong’s real estate sector has endured a series of shocks, yet it is far more resilient than dire reports of its state might suggest.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Hong Kong civil servants should get their pay rises, within limits

The government finds itself facing calls for civil servants’ pay to rise when it is trying to curb a ballooning budget deficit. This may be hard to swallow for Hongkongers amid a sluggish economy with small local businesses struggling.

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Civil servants leave the government offices in Tamar at lunch time on May 16. The 2024 Pay Trend Survey Report suggests rises of up to 5.47 per cent for civil servants this year. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong property

Hong Kong exhibition centre events near pre-Covid numbers

The number of events in the second half of 2023 hit 84 per cent of the pre-pandemic level and is on track to match it this year, top executive says.

A view of Victoria Harbour and the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in 2023. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong economy

Businesses on Hong Kong side of border struggle amid dwindling mainland shoppers

Empty shops, measly sales leave shop owners hoping talks on visa scheme will bring back day trippers.

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Hong Kong economy

Opinion | Time to showcase the real Hong Kong to draw tourists back

As the success of other destinations shows, Hong Kong does not need to reinvent the wheel to attract mainland and foreign visitors. The combined efforts of Cathay Pacific and the MTR Corporation can help promote the city’s unique local character.

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Hong Kong tourism

Opinion | Why Cathay Pacific chaos is wake-up call for Hong Kong tourism sector

The increasing competitiveness of other cities and countries is a warning to Hong Kong that it must do more than restore the pre-pandemic status quo if it wants tourism to thrive, and that will require rethinking the assumptions guiding recovery plans and involving workers in discussions.

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A Cathay Pacific staff member helps passengers check in for their flights at a kiosk at Hong Kong International Airport on January 12. Cathay passengers have expressed frustration with the airline after a series of flight cancellations that the airline blamed on a lack of staffing because of an influenza outbreak. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Hong Kong society

Opinion | Why a return to life before Covid is still out of Hong Kong’s grasp

A recent survey suggests Hongkongers see the city as more liveable, but it’s doubtful this means a return to pre-pandemic normality. To establish a new normal amid challenging societal and political conditions, Hong Kong leaders must address issues such as housing and cost of living.

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Hong Kong

How a Hong Kong start-up uses AI to bring personalised hair care to the masses

HairCoSys, a start-up founded in May 2021, is offering personalised hair care solutions with an AI powered platform that can detect and prevent hair loss.

Hong Kong society

Visitors flock to Hong Kong product expo as ‘food plaza’ makes welcome return

The 57th edition of the Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo opened at Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.

A visitor takes a tumble in a dash at the opening of the Hong Kong Brands and Products Expo at Victoria Park. Photo: Edmond So
Hong Kong transport

Hong Kong’s Cathay to offer 3.8% pay rise but pilots’ union far from happy

Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association says pilots will need to fly more to achieve the rise offered because they are paid by the hour.

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Cathay Pacific and its budget carrier HK Express aim to reach 70 per cent of pre-pandemic flight capacity by the end of the year. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Hong Kong property

Hong Kong slips to third place in global retail rents after New York and Milan

Hong Kong’s tourist hotspot of Tsim Sha Tsui retained its ranking as the most expensive retail destination in Asia-Pacific, but slipped to third place globally, according to a survey by Cushman & Wakefield.

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Hong Kong social distancing

Smoother travel along Hong Kong-mainland border after health declaration axed

Hongkongers heading north say crossing is more convenient after mainland authorities scrap mandatory health declaration introduced during Covid-19 pandemic.

Hong Kong economy

‘Hongkongers unlikely to head north despite end to cross-border health declaration’

Tourism minister Kevin Yeung says change unlikely to affect flows over border, but catering, retail leaders say more needs to done to ensure residents spend at home.

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Mainland Chinese authorities will scrap a cross-border health declaration introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
Hong Kong

Last Covid-19 restriction on travel between Hong Kong and mainland China dropped

Travellers on both sides of the Hong Kong-mainland China border welcome end of health declaration and predict move will cut queues.

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Signs directing passengers to make health declarations at the city’s West Kowloon railway station are to become a thing of the past. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong property

Hong Kong home prices at lowest level since 2017 amid high interest rates

Hong Kong’s lived-in home prices fell by nearly 1.75 per cent in September to their lowest since April 2017, as elevated interest rates have dampened sentiment and kept buyers on the sidelines.

Shenzhen

Thousands of Hongkongers flock to mainland China to mark tomb-sweeping festival

‘It’s our first time in three years,’ says one resident visiting cemetery in Shenzhen to sweep the graves of her parents.

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