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Coronavirus puts girls from Hong Kong, Britain’s ethnic minorities at greater risk of forced marriage Photo: AFP
The coronavirus pandemic is putting girls from ethnic minorities in Hong Kong and Britain at greater risk of being forced into marriage. This story is part of a series on women s issues in China and Asia to coincide with International Women s Day.
Jani , a 17-year-old Briton of Bangladeshi descent living in the United Kingdom, has spent the past year in constant dread. I fear that I will be taken abroad and never let back. (And that) I will be raped, she said.
By Contributor - February 16, 2021
The new initiative supports returning ethnic-minority residents from disadvantaged backgrounds.
A Corner Deluxe room at Ovolo Southside. (Photo: Ovolo Hotels)
Through its recently launched Ovolo Homecoming Project, Ovolo Hotels is extending a helping hand to Hong Kong residents stranded abroad who are unable to afford the 21-night hotel quarantine mandated by the territory’s government. Ethnic-minority individuals with financial difficulties looking to get home will be eligible for a quarantine stay of just HK$1 per night (for a total of HK$21) at Ovolo Southside, and the group has so far pledged up to 200 room nights toward the campaign.
Hong Kong's fourth wave of coronavirus brings tide of racism, especially against South Asians newsindiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsindiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hong Kong s fourth wave of coronavirus brings tide of racism
Theodora Yu and Shibani Mahtani, The Washington Post
Feb. 11, 2021
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HONG KONG - A man of Nepali descent said he was denied a job after an employer saw his complexion. A woman said people recoiled from her in an elevator, apparently disgusted. A child was turned away from a school that cited a preference for locals.
Racism, especially against South Asians, is not a new phenomenon in Hong Kong, whose population is 92% ethnic Chinese. But a wave of incidents during the pandemic - including comments from an official who suggested minorities were spreading the coronavirus - is bringing prejudice into sharp relief in this city of astronomical housing prices and extreme inequality.