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As she won attention for her dishes, she initially found it exhausting to continually be asked about her gender, the example she was setting, the role model she had become.
Hong Kong’s banking regulator said it would relax commercial property mortgage rules, in a move to boost liquidity in a market that has been hit hard by US-China trade tensions, violent street protests last year and the coronavirus crisis.
US asset manager Vanguard Group will close its Hong Kong and Japan operations and cut jobs across both locations as it shifts its Asian headquarters to Shanghai, it said.
The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. The pandemic will cost the global economy as much as $4.1 trillion, or nearly 5% of all economic activity,
Hong Kong retail sales extended their free-fall in November as months of anti-government protests scared off tourists, hitting spending and threatening the survival of small businesses.
The restrictions are the latest economic blow to an international business hub pursuing a zero-Covid strategy that has kept cases low but left residents cut off from the rest of the world.
Flights to Hong Kong are down 90% and hardly any are allowed to transit as the financial hub isolates itself from the world in the hope it can contain a coronavirus outbreak, even though new infections are overwhelmingly local transmissions.
"The individual is deemed to be a Chinese citizen under China's citizenship laws, which do not recognise dual nationality," a spokesperson for Australia's department of foreign affairs explained.
The AFC Asian Cup roared into life on Sunday, with Group C's opening clash between the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong. Despite being heavy favourites, the UAE faced a spirited challenge from their determined opponents.
The Hang Seng index closed down 0.9% at 24,549.99. The Hang Seng China Enterprises index fell 0.8%.