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Hong Kong’s pandemic-stricken industries have ramped up their appeals for financial compensation or fresh subsidies following the government’s sudden revival of strict social-distancing rules, as businesses warn that losses over the next fortnight could exceed HK$11 billion (US$1.4 billion). (20220106 SCMP)
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#The_Days_We_Wear_Masks 20220109
Hong Kong’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on Wednesday said the government’s plan allowing them to defer rent payments for up to six months might provide short-term relief, but resolution of the difficulties they face depended very much on the fifth Covid-19 wave being brought under control.
SMEs in certain sectors will be allowed to defer their rent payments by up to six months, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said in his budget briefing earlier on Wednesday. The government will introduce legislation to effect the new measures, which will be valid for three months and, if necessary, be extended once more for the same duration, he said. The legislation will lapse automatically after six months.
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Hong Kong has long been one of the most unequal places on Earth, a city where sleek luxury malls sit shoulder-to-shoulder with overcrowded tenements where the bathroom sometimes doubles as the kitchen. In normal times, that inequality is often concealed by the city’s glittery surface. But during the coronavirus pandemic, its cost has become unmistakable. (20210127 The New York Times)
The chief executive of the Hospital Authority, Tony Ko, said on Saturday that most Covid patients waiting for admission outside public hospitals have now been moved indoors or to other isolation facilities.
Patients had been forced to spend hours in the cold outside emergency rooms, after a surge of Covid infections led to overcrowding in hospitals.
Speaking on an RTHK radio show, Dr Ko apologised for such an undesirable situation.
He said authorities might have moved waiting patients indoors for now, but the situation could happen again if many Covid patients rushed to hospitals over a short space of time.
Dr Ko urged patients with mild symptoms to stay home and call a designated hotline if they had questions, or to seek treatment at designated public clinics.
He said moving Covid patients into freed-up space inside hospitals is not desirable, but it is a reasonable arrangement.
“In some of the cases, we arrange for patients to be temporarily located in some of the premises - like some of our break halls, out-patient areas, day patient areas or sometimes even in the physiotherapy gymnasium. In this type of settings, there is reasonable space and ventilation,” he said.
(20220219 RTHK news)
The outlook is like a box made of reinforced concrete. The plan of the building is rectangular, enclosing a central garden in the middle with a layout very similar to that of a Chinese garden.
The purpose-built atrium (i.e. the central open yard) helps the interior spaces to stay clean and hygienic by introducing cross ventilation and natural light, together with the provision of a high headroom and a long strip of horizontal openable windows.
As such, the market architecture at that time not only complied with the Bauhaus spirit of “Form Follows Function”, but also integrated with an oriental courtyard space with a natural sentiment, thus constituting a contemporary architecture of that era.
外觀如一個混凝土盒子，建築的平面呈方形，中央庭園布局甚有中式庭園的味道。當時的街市比較陰暗及衞生較差，長形中庭設計可以加強室內街市的對流通風，引入自然光線；再配合高樓底及一列長形高窗，提升現代街市的衛生標準。
因此，當年街市建築既糅合了德國包浩斯(Bauhaus)的現代功能主義，又融入中式庭園的自然環境的氛圍，造就一代帶有東方建築空間特色的摩登建築 。
(centralmarket.hk)
Hong Kong will from April 21 start to ease social-distancing rules that have been in place for months, including an extension of dine-in hours for restaurants and the reopening of premises such as gyms, sports venues and cinemas. (20220414 SCMP)
To facilitate and encourage the public to practice source separation of waste and clean recycling, the EPD has regularized the funding support for the Community Recycling Center projects previously funded by the Environment and Conservation Fund, and engaged non-profit making organizations in setting up 22 Recycling Stores in 18 districts across the territory, with a view to enhancing the community recycling network. All the Recycling Stores will be in operation progressively by the first quarter of 2021.
University of Hong Kong microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung says it may take two to three months to rein in the Omicron outbreaks, saying he expects many more cases to emerge in the community following the exponential increase of infections seen in Kwai Chung.
More than 100 confirmed or preliminary coronavirus infections linked to Kwai Chung Estate had been reported so far, and Yuen said it could get worse. (20220123 RTHK news)
From 7 January , evening dining banned in restaurants, while bars and other leisure venues ordered to close, under tough package of Covid-19 measures fighting fifth wave of infections.
Fifteen types of specified premises to shut. They are bars and pubs, nightclubs, fitness centres, theme parks, museums, party rooms, beauty parlours, swimming pools, bathhouses, game centres, karaoke rooms, sports premises, Chinese-style gambling establishments for mahjong and tin kau (dominoes), event and performance venues, and cinemas. (20220105 SCMP)
festival cruise '22 - mother guides her son through the women's dance troupe. (see previous - flic.kr/p/2nk1Qen)