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Diner’s Diary
Coronavirus: top hotel restaurants in Hong Kong forced to close their doors before Valentine’s Day
- Several restaurants in top Hong Kong hotels have announced closures of between a week and a month
- Groups such as Jia Group have sent emails reassuring customers that staff are stepping up sanitation in their outlets
How a Singapore pharmacist launched a rustic restaurant brand, and his ambitions for hawker food
- Pang Seng Meng opened his first restaurant serving seafood and hawker favourites 15 years ago. He expanded to mainland Singapore, and refined the concept
- Now he’s looking to food courts to grow, and experimenting with new dishes and wine pairings for hawker food. ‘The thing about Singapore is we adapt,’ he says
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New Ubin Seafood’s restaurant at Zhongshan Park in Singapore. The chain’s founder, Pang Meng Sang, considers it is easier now to open in the city’s food courts than to launch full-fledged restaurants.
The death toll in China from the coronavirus has risen to 425 as efforts continue to control the outbreak. Photo: Xinhua
Coronavirus: two more cases confirmed in Hong Kong, suspected to have been transmitted locally, hours after city confirms first death
- Two new cases, both in their 60s, had not travelled to mainland China recently, and health chief warns of potential for outbreak in city
- City suffers first fatality related to deadly virus originating in Wuhan, the second outside mainland China
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A patient at Princess Margaret Hospital has become the first in Hong Kong to succumb to an illness related to the coronavirus. Photo: Bloomberg
Coronavirus: Hong Kong faces escalated medical strike despite government move to expand border closures
- Hospital Authority says services ‘seriously affected’ as about 2,700 staff skip work in bid to force government into total border shutdown
- City’s first human-to-human transmission of deadly virus confirmed as 15th patient infected through close contact with her son
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Medical workers strike near Queen Elizabeth Hospital demanding Hong Kong close its borders with mainland China to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: Winson Wong
Coronavirus beauty essentials: how to adapt your routine when you wear a face mask – make it all about the eyes
- You’re avoiding coronavirus infection by wearing a mask, but what is it doing to your skin? Here’s how you can keep it healthy and fresh looking
- Make-up artist to the stars Alvin Goh shares five tips to help you look your best and protect your skin
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Wearing a face mask can cause havoc with your skin if you are not careful. Photo: Shutterstock
China coronavirus: only one correct way to wear mask, says Malaysian mythbuster. Here it is
- It doesn’t matter if you are wearing the mask because you are sick and don’t want to spread your germs; or wearing it to prevent yourself being infected
- Colour side out is only way to go, says Malaysian medical mythbuster
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Two different ways to wear a surgical mask, but which is correct? Photo: Facebook
The death toll in China from the coronavirus has risen to 425 as efforts continue to control the outbreak. Photo: Xinhua
Coronavirus: two more cases confirmed in Hong Kong, suspected to have been transmitted locally, hours after city confirms first death
- Two new cases, both in their 60s, had not travelled to mainland China recently, and health chief warns of potential for outbreak in city
- City suffers first fatality related to deadly virus originating in Wuhan, the second outside mainland China
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A patient at Princess Margaret Hospital has become the first in Hong Kong to succumb to an illness related to the coronavirus. Photo: Bloomberg
Coronavirus: Hong Kong faces escalated medical strike despite government move to expand border closures
- Hospital Authority says services ‘seriously affected’ as about 2,700 staff skip work in bid to force government into total border shutdown
- City’s first human-to-human transmission of deadly virus confirmed as 15th patient infected through close contact with her son
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Medical workers strike near Queen Elizabeth Hospital demanding Hong Kong close its borders with mainland China to curtail the spread of the coronavirus. Photo: Winson Wong