Govt eases mortgage rules for first-time young home buyers

Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today that Hong Kong has recorded three COVID-19 infections involving the Mu variant which has been newly listed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a "variant of interest".The CHP said the patients in question had arrived from Colombia, where the variant was first discovered, and the United States.University of Hong Kong microbiologist Ho Pak-leung had called on the authorities to make cases of the Mu variant public, saying

China Daily Editorial        In her statement on Saturday, at the end of her official visit to China over the previous six days, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet came straight to the point, saying her visit was not an “investigation”, but an opportunity to promote exchanges and interactions.Indeed, the concerns that she did raise over China’s human rights conditions – some of which are common challenges confronting countries – are the fields