A bronze replica of the Charging Bull of Wall Street, inside the premises of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai. File photo | Photo Credit: REUTERS The Indian stock market has pipped Hong Kong to become the fourth-highest equity market globally, Bloomberg reported. The combined value of shares listed on Indian exchanges reached USD … Read more
A man walks past signs for candidates during the district council election in Hong Kong on December 10, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP A “patriots only” district election in Hong Kong that barred opposition democrats from the ballot sheet amid a national security squeeze had a record low voter turnout of 27.5% as many voters spurned what was seen as … Read more
The Chinese city once had some of the toughest restrictions in the world, but is now opening up. Source link
Hong Kong: China’s Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group said users of its mobile health app in China can now register to take COVID-19 booster shots in Hong Kong using BioNTech‘s vaccine. The booster shots offered are recommended for those aged 18 and above and those who have completed their initial course of vaccination, according to the … Read more
“Pet owners should keep a good hygiene practice, including washing hands after touching the animals, handling their food or other items, and avoid kissing the animals,” Hong Kong’s agriculture department director Leung Siu-fai told reporters at a news conference. Source link
After a wait of 23 years, a Hong Kong-based lawyer has taken on her Darjeeling-based tutor who would repeatedly molest her in her childhood and later would go on to do the same to other children. Representative image After a wait of 23 years, a Hong Kong-based lawyer has taken on her Darjeeling-based tutor who … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images Hong Kong scientists are reporting the case of a healthy man in his 30s who became reinfected with coronavirus four and a half months after his first bout. They say genome sequencing shows the two strains of the virus are “clearly different”, making it the world’s first proven case of reinfection. … Read more