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Scores of central bankers will gather in Hong Kong next month for the first major international financial event since the border fully reopened. The HKMA is keen to promote the city’s finance sector after three years of Covid-19 restrictions dimmed its lustre. Source link

Recent attacks in which Asian-Americans were both victims and suspects have elicited a special pain and a search for answers within the community. Source link

Beijing’s embassy in Tokyo says it has ended visa suspension imposed after Japan tightened pandemic-related restrictions on Chinese travellers. Source link

Amount falls short of the HK$2.54 billion recorded in June 1997, but Hong Kong Jockey Club chief ‘delighted’ by result. Source link

The coronavirus should be a warning that the world must be better prepared to deal with future outbreaks of infectious disease. Source link

The city of Ruili is slowly creaking back to life as China ditches its zero-tolerance Covid strategy after years of strict lockdowns and other gruelling restrictions. Source link

Tightened checks at all control points result in arrests, drugs intercepted over past six weeks Source link

The “infection tsunami” sweeping the country after an abrupt pivot away from its zero-Covid strategy has plunged millions into despair. Source link

China succeeded in containing Covid-19 during the first two years of the pandemic, but the emergence last year of a more transmissible variant of the virus that causes the disease proved to be too much of a challenge. Source link

Provisional figures show total of 36,669 people by Sunday afternoon crossed border in either direction at four land ports and one ferry terminal, including 28,875 mainland-bound travellers. Source link