By Cannix Yau Hong Kong’s textile industry leaders have come together to produce antivirus gloves they hope will provide frontline workers more protection during the Covid-19 pandemic.Raymond Chu Lop-fu, chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Textiles, told the Post the joint effort involved Henry Tan, chairman of the Textile Council of Hong Kong, […]
By Tony Kwok Hong Kong’s 2022-23 budget has largely responded to public expectations. The most welcome measure is the distribution of HK$10,000 (US$1,280) in electronic consumption vouchers to 6.6 million residents.However, there are two areas of public concern about its application which deserve consideration by the government. The first is that the vouchers are available […]
By Sonia Sarkar Jagdeep Singh, a 31-year-old farmer from India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh applied to local authorities for a revolver licence four months ago.His village of Lakhimpur Kheri, home to 4 million people, is filled with lush green sugar cane and paddy fields.It was in one such sugar cane field Singh’s father […]