News about Hong Kong

KUALA LUMPUR (April 28): Esprit Holdings will close all its stores in Asia outside mainland China “to cope with challenges” posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): All three restaurants in Hong Kong owned by British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay (pictured) ceased operations today owing to the economic downturn caused the COVID-19 pandemic, reported Sin Chew Daily.

PETALING JAYA (March 31): The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted the Hong Kong retail industry, but some of the landlords there have reduced rental to help their tenants survive the outbreak.

PETALING JAYA: From the political turmoil which resulted in a change in government to the COVID-19 pandemic that has placed the country in partial lockdown coupled with the stock market meltdown — recent developments in Malaysia have been far from favourable.

Jason Oh, an employee of a hospitality company currently based in Hong Kong — one of the countries affected by the COVID-19 outbreak that saw schools being shut down and the government rolling out a fiscal stimulus package to ease the impact of the virus – was required to work from home after the Chinese New Year holidays until the end of February 2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 6): A South Korean plastic surgery clinic is being sued over the death of Hong Kong textile fortune heiress Bonnie Evita Law by her family, according to a South China Morning Post (SCMP) report on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 28): Malaysia’s broader economic outlook could weaken if significant uncertainty over the formation of the new government continues for long, said S&P Global Ratings.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 28): Despite the economic downturn, the Hong Kong government is confident it can employ an unconventional approach to sell a prime commercial site in the Central business district.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 27): AME Elite Consortium Bhd posted net profit RM14.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 17): And armed gang has taken away more than HK$1,000 (RM533) worth of toilet rolls/paper outside a Hong Kong supermarket this morning, reported the South China Morning Post.