Hong Kong residents show their support for police outside the police headquarters in Wan Chai on Sunday. [Photo by EDMOND TANG/CHINA DAILY]
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor invited China's e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to be listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange, according to news portal Sina on Monday, in the wake of the company's failure to launch an IPO in the city in 2014 due to allowing different classes of shares with different voting power.
Hong Kong people have been told to avoid visiting Wuhan as the pneumonia epidemic that erupted in the Hubei provincial capital worsened on Tuesday, with six people confirmed dead and over 300 people infected across the Chinese mainland.
Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung, however, said it's unlikely the city would see a massive transmission of the disease in the community.
Hong Kong's citywide virus testing program, being conducted on a voluntary basis, has detected 19 infections of the coronavirus out of a total of around 1.27 million specimens collected under the program as of 8 pm on Wednesday.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor (center) and other participants attend a reception marking the 23rd anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on Wednesday. RAY F/FOR CHINA DAILY
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Honea had previously said that 228 people were listed as missing, and his office also was working to determine the fate of nearly 1,300 individuals whose loved ones had requested "well-being checks" on their behalf.
Hong Kong was plunged into citywide chaos for a second straight day, amid violent actions by radical protesters in multiple districts calling for a "general strike". Like the day before, they disrupted the morning commute by blocking subway lines, setting up barricades and scattering nails on roads to block private cars and buses.
His family decided to donate his organs to help people in need. His older sister signed the organ release forms on Thursday, witnessed by many of Gazzar's friends as well as Grigorios Tassiopoulos, consul general of Greece's Consulate General in Guangzhou, and Li Jingdong, director of the organ donation office of the Guangdong Branch of the Red Cross Society of China.
Hong Kong is a small city with a huge population: some 7.5 million people crowded into 1,100 square kilometers. Hong Kong cannot possibly survive without international trade, because we depend on imports which must be paid for by our exports for virtually everything that we need. Trade, therefore, is crucial to our survival.