The Latest Breaking News from Hong Kong

Beijing will resume processing passport applications and issuing Hong Kong visas in January, when it will downgrade Covid-19’s infectious disease classification

Hong Kong will cancel its stringent COVID-19 rules from Thursday, city leader John Lee said, meaning that arrivals will no longer need to do mandatory PCR tests while the city's vaccine pass would also be scrapped.

India will require a negative Covid-19 test result from travellers arriving from Thailand, China, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, the country’s health minister said on Saturday.

Keeping in mind the recent rise in the COVID-19 cases all across the world, the Indian Health Ministry has also announced that it is now mandatory for all passengers arriving from China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand to produce RT-PCR test results upon arrival.

Hong Kong’s leader says China has agreed to a reopening of the city’s border with the mainland, which has been largely closed by pandemic restrictions

Two films about the 2019 antigovernment protests in Hong Kong have been running in a Tokyo theater since December, despite being banned in Hong Kong due to the Chinese government's intensifying control.

Serial killer Charles Sobhraj is believed to have killed at least 24 people in Afghanistan, India, Thailand, Turkey, Nepal, Iran and Hong Kong during the 1970s

Hong Kong will reopen its borders with mainland China by mid-January, city Chief Executive John Lee said on Saturday, as Beijing accelerates the unwinding of stringent COVID-19 rules that have battered economic growth.

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