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The election of Hong Kong's chief executive, scheduled to be held in March, will be postponed to May as the Asian financial hub battles to control an accelerating surge in COVID-19 infections, city leader Carrie Lam said on Friday.

Meituan (OTC:MPNGY) shares shed ~15% after China issued new guidelines asking food delivery platforms to cut restaurant fees to reduce business costs, Bloomberg reports. Online food delivery platforms will have to offer preferential fees to restaurants in regions hit by the pandemic, as per the National Development and Reform Commission.  Related Content: US Adds…

Once bustling Hong Kong is languishing amid a strict zero-COVID strategy that has closed bank branches and movie theaters

Hong Kong parents rushed children as young as 3 years old to vaccination centres this week as the government lowered the age limit for the shots and the deaths of two toddlers exacerbated concerns in a city struggling to cope with a COVID-19 surge.

Shenzhen Component Index closed up 0.27%

A policy of admitting every positive case to hospital means thousands are being added to an already huge backlog every day

After calling Hong Kong home for 30 years, Tina, a self-employed mom, is calling it quits on the city and moving to Portugal. But with 10 of her booked flights to Europe cancelled in the past year, her travails show how Hong Kong’s Covid-Zero policy is making getting out almost…

Lam Foon, 98, sits propped up and swaddled in soggy woollen blankets in a hospital bed just outside the entrance to Hong Kong's Caritas Medical Centre, waiting for tests to confirm her preliminary positive result for COVID-19.

Hong Kong health authorities are expected to confirm at least 3,600 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, with another 7,600 showing up positive in preliminary tests, broadcaster TVB reported, citing an unidentified source.