Patients suffering from psoriasis have urged the government to grant greater access to advanced treatments and offer more subsidies to help them afford the medication.Between 20,000 and 40,000 Hongkongers suffer from the chronic, but non-contagious, disease, according to an estimate by the Hong Kong Psoriasis Patients Association. Aside from causing itchy and inflamed skin, psoriasis also comes with other health issues, including heart and joint problems, known as psoriatic arthritis, as well… [...]

Hong Kong authorities will step up the amount of help offered to local young people looking to take up internships or set up businesses in mainland China, the city’s deputy leader has said, noting that local youth have certain comparative advantages over their counterparts over the border.Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung Kin-chung, writing on his official blog on Sunday, also dismissed suggestions Hong Kong would be marginalised or “mainlandised” by its Chinese neighbours, such as the tech hub… [...]

Mainland China’s return to growth will help the Hong Kong economy recover from its battering by the coronavirus, according to the city’s financial chief, who predicted a “significant improvement” to third-quarter performance and exports in September.But achieving that progress depended on how well Hong Kong contained the spread of Covid-19, a fight that had already strained public resources, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po said.Chan’s optimism follows a week in which the daily number of new… [...]

The day after Thailand’s military government shut down Bangkok’s rail system to restrain the growing anti-government movement last week, a message supportive of the campaign was graffitied on a bridge 1,550km from the kingdom.The hashtag #StandWithThailand was sprayed onto a bridge in the middle-class neighbourhood of Taikoo in Hong Kong. It remained unclear who did it, but pictures of the message quickly appeared on social media.In the residential neighborhood of Taikoo on #HongKong Island, we… [...]

Just like the young Dick Whittington of English folklore who found out the hard way centuries ago that the streets of London were not in fact paved with gold, many Hongkongers getting excited over Britain’s great offer of a “pathway to citizenship” are in for bitter disappointment.Purportedly out of overwhelming concern for the safety of their loyal former colonial subjects, the people in charge of good ol’ Blighty announced this week that they were creating a special class of visa for… [...]