A Scottish Highlands retreat where rewilding is restoring the natural balance and creating forest habitats for wolves, beavers and other species msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Hong Kong unemployment set to continue falling but ‘hard times’ are ahead, finance secretary says Zoe Lowzoe.low@scmp.com Jobless figures for April to June are poised to return to levels last seen in the first half of 2020, a senior minister says. Photo: Bloomberg
Hong Kong unemployment is expected to continue falling but the city is not yet out of the woods and wider Covid-19 vaccination uptake is needed to improve the economic outlook, the finance chief has said.
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said on Sunday that jobless figures for April to June, to be announced on Tuesday, were set to return to the levels of more than a year ago, after dropping from a 7.2 per cent high at the beginning of 2021 to 6 per cent in May.
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Tokyo Olympics: will European shuttlers threaten Asia’s badminton dominance? Illustration: Joe Lo
Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July.
In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open - the world s oldest badminton tournament - with competitors from Asia instead filling up every final-four slot in all five events.
Their overwhelming dominance alarmed Badminton World Federation (BWF) president Poul-Erik Hoyer Larsen into issuing a warning to the Europeans: raise your standards, or see a permanent power shift to Asia.