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Philip Fong / AFP / Getty Pandemic Dining: Temperature Checks, Time Limits, and Dividers
The experience of eating out in Hong Kong illustrates what it’s like to visit a restaurant right now.
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Paul Yeung / Bloomberg / Getty The End of Hong Kong
China has moved to take away the city’s autonomy, one of several aggressive actions by Beijing across the region.
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Ulet Ifansasti / Getty Images Is This Taiwan’s Moment?
Countries “are not backing down in the face of Chinese pressure” over the island, its foreign minister says.
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Courtesy of Denise Rendor The Fragility of the Global Nurse Supply Chain
The pandemic has exposed how richer countries, including the United States, rely on health-care workers from poorer ones, such as the Philippines.
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Adeshola Makinde What Happens to Gambling When Sports Shut Down?
The cancellation of major events has left stadiums empty and casinos closed.
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(Turjoy Chowdhury / NurPhoto via Getty Images) The Unseen Pandemic
Refugee camps such as those in Bangladesh are a tinderbox for the spread of the coronavirus.
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Billy H.C. Kwok / Getty Get Used to It: This Lockdown Won’t Be the Last
New restrictions in Hong Kong show that a single round of constraints won’t be enough to beat the pandemic.
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Martin Chan / South China Morning Post via ... A Glimpse of the Coronavirus’s Possible Legacy
The imprint SARS has left on Hong Kong speaks to the legacy COVID-19 may well leave on much of the world.
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Estelle Ruiz / NurPhoto / Getty The Other Problematic Outbreak
As the coronavirus spreads across the globe, so too does racism.
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Nerthuz / Getty / The Atlantic What Could Happen if the Coronavirus Closed Schools for Days, Weeks, or Even Months
We can get a sense of what to expect from Hong Kong, where students have already been out of school for more than a month.
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Ann Wang / Reuters Coronavirus Is Devastating Chinese Tourism
Countries have closed off their borders with China, airlines have slashed flights, and hotels have seen a big drop-off in bookings.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Democracy Drives Labor in a Hyper-Capitalist City
Growing numbers of people are joining unions in Hong Kong to pressure the authorities to respond to their demands.
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Bloomberg / Getty Hong Kong’s Perfect Crisis
The city’s prodemocracy protests and the threat of coronavirus build on common complaints.
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Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Protesters Finally Have (Some) Power
Newly elected representatives are among those trying to turn the demonstrations into a permanent prodemocracy movement.
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Danish Siddiqui / Reuters China Turns to a Failed Plan to Quell Hong Kong’s Protests
The city’s leaders believe a revamped education system will make its people more loyal to Beijing and less likely to protest.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters Hong Kong Doesn’t Have a Pro-China ‘Silent Majority’
Voters overwhelmingly chose pro-democracy candidates in local elections, putting an end to the notion that a large chunk of the population was against months of protests.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters Meet the Spiritual Leader of the Hong Kong Protests
Edward Leung has barely spoken about the demonstrations from his jail cell, but he has emerged as an unlikely oracle in the eyes of demonstrators.
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Susana Vera / Reuters The Rising Costs of Protest in Hong Kong
When the protests first began, talk of dying for the movement seemed outlandish. Now it is all too real.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters The Anger of Hong Kong’s Youth
Students are once again at the heart of the city’s protests. They’re not going anywhere.
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