Carrie Lam: Last News

Peter Capaldi has gone viral after fans 'spotted' him everywhere from Scotland's lochs and Sydney Opera House to Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong.

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.

COVID-19, sparking fears that a new strain could emerge.Despite petitions, the government isn't backing down, and pet owners are now being forced to drop off their hamsters for the chop at an official centre. Left with no other option, a group of Hong Kong citizens have turned to the Internet's latest money making craze: NFTs.The group, which plans to create 2000 resurrected hamsters on the blockchain and sell them as NFTs, will donate all the proceeds to an animal charity fighting the euthanasia of animals."We will not stand for the euthanising of our little hamsters," the anonymous group called Carries Hamsters (named after Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam) wrote on Instagram.The project will turn the dead hamsters into priceless digital artifacts.

Hong Kong cinemas, along with the Walt Disney Co.'s Hong Kong theme park, have shut their doors again amid a local flareup of novel coronavirus infections. Across the border in the vastly larger mainland Chinese market, rumors that movie theaters would get the official green light to reopen in late July have yet to materialize.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in Hong Kong are to close their doors again from Wednesday night as the city suffers a third wave of the deadly coronavirus.The move was part of a wave of new measures announced on Monday evening by Chief Executive Carrie Lam in response to a new surge in COVID-19 cases.New social distancing measures will halt restaurant dining from 6 p.m. till 5 a.m.

By Patrick Frater

Beijing has moved quickly to impose controversial new national security legislation on Hong Kong that severely curtails the territory’s previous freedoms and could mean life in prison for violators — local and foreign alike.Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam called the law “a crucial step to ending chaos and violence that has occurred over the past few months,” saying criticism amounted to “vicious attacks.” Within hours of the law coming into effect late Tuesday night, its presence was quickly felt.

By Patrick Frater

By Patrick Frater