The Hong Kong Film Festival has been forced to alter plans for its 46th edition due to a spike in local Covid cases caused by the Omicron variant.
Hong Kong is facing its worst outbreak of the virus, with cases in the low thousands per day. Previously, due to strict enforcement of preventative measures and travel bans, the city has managed to keep outbreaks largely at bay.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam recently announced that the entire population of the city, close to 7.5 million people, will be tested three times in March in a bid to restrict the variant’s spread.
The festival had been due to run March 31 to April 11. Today, organizers posted on Facebook that, due to the government’s decision to introduce restrictions through April 20, the event needed to be postponed. They did not suggest a revised date.
The fest previously had to cancel in 2020, while...
Hong Kong is facing its worst outbreak of the virus, with cases in the low thousands per day. Previously, due to strict enforcement of preventative measures and travel bans, the city has managed to keep outbreaks largely at bay.
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam recently announced that the entire population of the city, close to 7.5 million people, will be tested three times in March in a bid to restrict the variant’s spread.
The festival had been due to run March 31 to April 11. Today, organizers posted on Facebook that, due to the government’s decision to introduce restrictions through April 20, the event needed to be postponed. They did not suggest a revised date.
The fest previously had to cancel in 2020, while...
- 2/23/2022
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Hong Kong, Dec 8 (Ians) Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday announced that in view of the worsening Covid-19 pandemic situation, social distancing measures will be further tightened, including the banning of dine-in services in restaurants after 6 p.m.
Addressing reporters, Lam said that the recent Covid-19 situation has been worrying, with 661 new cases reported over the past week, reports Xinhua news agency.
Patients in critical and serious conditions involved not only the elderly but also the younger people.
"The situation is more complicated than the last wave as infections scattered across Hong Kong and a number of clusters were involved," Lam said.
She added that the number of untraceable cases has been rising which indicated that there is a lot of silent transmission in the community.
The city government will adopt more stringent measures to reduce people flow in public places to contain the spread of the virus.
Addressing reporters, Lam said that the recent Covid-19 situation has been worrying, with 661 new cases reported over the past week, reports Xinhua news agency.
Patients in critical and serious conditions involved not only the elderly but also the younger people.
"The situation is more complicated than the last wave as infections scattered across Hong Kong and a number of clusters were involved," Lam said.
She added that the number of untraceable cases has been rising which indicated that there is a lot of silent transmission in the community.
The city government will adopt more stringent measures to reduce people flow in public places to contain the spread of the virus.
- 12/8/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
After a busy FilMart in March, at which Hong Kong’s film industry leaders promised to lobby for greater access to mainland audiences, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam was able, only a month later, to announce that the lobbying had succeeded. But the past months of political protests in Hong Kong have increasingly impacted the film business.
Back in April, fees and conditions attached to mainland-Hong Kong co-productions were waived, as part of a five-point plan to treat the Special Administrative Area’s once mighty film industry as welcome in the mainland, where the local industry has grown big and arrogant, but not yet mature.
Dropping the rules that required all mainland-Hong Kong co-productions to have mainland stories, and other regulations that put ceilings on the number of Hong Kong crew on each production, seemed set to help Hong Kong filmmakers tell their own stories and yet still to...
Back in April, fees and conditions attached to mainland-Hong Kong co-productions were waived, as part of a five-point plan to treat the Special Administrative Area’s once mighty film industry as welcome in the mainland, where the local industry has grown big and arrogant, but not yet mature.
Dropping the rules that required all mainland-Hong Kong co-productions to have mainland stories, and other regulations that put ceilings on the number of Hong Kong crew on each production, seemed set to help Hong Kong filmmakers tell their own stories and yet still to...
- 9/12/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
This summer, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have flowed through the streets of Hong Kong, tearing up government property, clashing with police, and demanding justice as they protest the region’s relationship with China. They don’t appear to be going home any time soon.
The demonstrations began in earnest in early June, in response to an extradition bill that would have allowed Hong Kong to send its residents to mainland China for trial, giving Beijing another form of jurisdiction over the territory and thus undermining its already fragile autonomy.
The demonstrations began in earnest in early June, in response to an extradition bill that would have allowed Hong Kong to send its residents to mainland China for trial, giving Beijing another form of jurisdiction over the territory and thus undermining its already fragile autonomy.
- 9/6/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
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