A lottery for vaccinated Hongkongers featuring a new HK$10.8 million flat received an overwhelming response as registration opened on Tuesday, with about 445,000 people signing up in the first 12 hours. That meant more than a third of fully vaccinated residents entered the jackpot between 9am and 9pm.The organisers urged potential participants to seek medical advice before getting their shots.Although the application was supposed to begin at 9am on Tuesday, a check by the Post found the… [...]

Hong Kong’s 180,000 government workers will have their pay frozen for the second straight year, an approach the civil service chief insists protects both public finances and staff morale amid the uncertainties of the Covid-19 crisis.In a letter to colleagues on Tuesday, Secretary for the Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen denied they were receiving “preferential treatment” by avoiding the salary cuts that a committee tasked with helping to determine the annual adjustment previously recommended… [...]

Hong Kong is considering donating some of its unused Covid-19 vaccines “to places which are more in need”, a government spokesman confirmed, after the Philippines’ top diplomat said on Twitter that he had asked the city’s leader to grant access to any excess supplies.Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jnr posted on Monday that he had appealed to Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor “for Hong Kong to donate or sell excess vaccines before they expire. But her hands are tied by… [...]

In a room warmed by an open wood stove, Baima says her family converted their white brick house into a hotel as China’s Communist Party leadership ushers tens of millions of tourists to the politically sensitive region of Tibet.In her remote village of Tashigang, surrounded by mist covered mountains nearly 500km (300 miles) from the capital Lhasa and close to a disputed border with India, most of the houses have followed suit and turned into homestays.“We used to live a life of herding and… [...]

The first person to stand trial under Hong Kong’s national security law will find out a day before his case is heard whether there will be a jury, after an appellate court said it would rule next week on the justice minister’s decision to exclude jurors from the proceedings.The Court of Appeal will hand down its judgment on Tong Ying-kit’s appeal on June 22, with his trial on terrorism and secession charges over a July 1 rally last year expected to start the next day.At stake is whether the… [...]