This is why Hong Kong people support improving electoral system
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Running a small cafe alone in Hong Kong, single mother Kate Lee found the thing that depressed her most was not the COVID-19 outbreak but the endless political upheavals.
After speaking out against the violence in a pro-police rally in 2019, Lee became a target of vicious online attacks and hateful telephone calls. Frequent bogus complaints made about her cafe also dealt a heavy blow to her business.
As social unrest and COVID-19 delivered a double whammy to Hong Kong s economy, Lee, like many people struggling amid the epidemic, pinned high hopes on the fast rollout of government subsidies so that her 40-square-meter eatery could stay afloat.
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Hong Kong citizens apply for visa to live and work in UK to escape Beijing national security law
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A new visa system that offers Hong Kong residents an opportunity to become British citizens has begun, seven months after Beijing s imposition of a national security law.
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Britain says it is fulfilling a historic and moral commitment to its former territory
More than 300,000 Hong Kongers are expected to take up the offer in the next five years
Yearender: Describe 2020 in just one word Xinhua interviews 7 Hong Kong residents (Xinhua) 08:18, December 29, 2020
Photo taken on May 14, 2020 shows the International Commerce Centre (ICC), a landmark highrise in Hong Kong, south China. (Xinhua/Lo Ping Fai)
The new year 2021 is around the corner and Xinhua has invited 7 Hong Kong residents from different walks of life to describe 2020 in just one word.
An Italian expatriate chooses recovery, a tourism insider is impressed by the epidemic and a surgeon still feels confident.
The following are more answers and stories. HONG KONG, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) 2020 has been a memorable year for Hong Kong. The financial hub returned to long-awaited peace, fought waves of the COVID-19 outbreak, grappled with an economic recession, and kept its competitiveness brought by one country, two systems.