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he works at the school of public health at the university of hong kong. he drank the now from reading. professor, calling is china 0 corporate strategy working i think it has been working in the last year. you can see they've had very few outbreaks across the country. the outbreaks they do have tended to be just in one city at a time. and so the disruption has been minimized. but i think the quality is going to pose a big challenge in 2022, given the more transmissible omicron very. and my next question is how sustainable is the 0 go of a strategy? i think if we look at the past 12 months with outbreaks, generally being in one or 2 cities at a time, i think what we're going to see in the coming year is more widespread outbreaks that take longer to control, but still only affect any one time and minority of the population in china. so in that sense, i think they can still sustain it, but they may be not as good as it was in 20 to 21. that may be more disruption than they would like. but then how long can the china afford these disruptions? because the stra

for the timing, but thank you so much for joining us today. professor ben calling from the university of hong kong when he and a quick look now at some other developments related to the coven. 19 pandemic in asia. ongoing with kindergarteners and primary schools from friday to contain a surgeon only crohn cases. and children over 5 can now get covered 900 shots as well. and indonesia has launched a booster campaign for the general public. 3rd shots are being prioritized for the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems. and a national hero in cambodia has died up to the short but impressive korea mago the land mines sniffing rad, achieved international fame for detecting more than $100.00 land mines and explosives. and n g o trained him to help clear stretches of mine fields in cambodia. it's one of the world's most heavily land mind countries up the decades of war. though martha had a dangerous profession, he was retired at the time of his death. his keeper said he passed away peacefully in his sleep at the age of 8 years old. let's it for today as usual. our website is d w dot com, for

all of these are common law offences that britain has left in hong kong when hong kong was still a colony of britain, so... it's striking to me that you actually went to universityersity. idid. so you've sampled what americans would describe as the academic freedom on a campus in the us. you now live in hong kong, where as we see... where we have equal freedom... ..police can raid campuses... i went to college in the united states. ..can detain teachers and where the vice president of the professional teachers union says, "they are turning education into a tool for controlling thought in hong kong." you know, stephen, i have watched a few of your interviews and you like to use citations from these people, right? are we playing a citing game now? because i can cite... just because those citations are basically their opinions. i can cite as many citations. sorry, those quotations are what, sorry? 0k, former secretary of justice hong kong elsie leung has said the electoral reform is in line with one country, two systems and will bring hong kong towards a brighter future. priscilla leung, a legco member, also professor at city university of hong kong school of law,

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, though, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessments. the disappearance of the statue came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not old in hong kong . thank you. me. in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalists and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisers. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists working

dr nicholas thomas is an associate professor at the city university of hong kong.t's wonderful to have you on the programme, doctor thomas. just to start by acting you —— asking you how effective these vaccines are against omicron? chinese vaccines, like all others, seem to be struggling against omicron. they're definitely providing a degree of protective support for people's immune systems, but when it comes to omicron, we now studies from one of our sister universities that it really doesn't provoke the sort of immune response we need to protect people against omicron effectively. protect people against omicron effectivel . , protect people against omicron effectively-— effectively. yes, doctor thomas. _ effectively. yes, doctor thomas, when - effectively. yes, doctor thomas, when you - effectively. yes, doctorj thomas, when you look effectively. yes, doctor i thomas, when you look at effectively. yes, doctor - thomas, when you look at the current concerns around omicron, how quickly it spreads, what is advice best place to keep infection at bay at this point?— a

hong kong struggling. experts call it a mental health epidemic. one of the hardest hit groups, young people. like universityudent steph. >> what i would call the worst day was that complete lack of hope. >> reporter: lack of hope about the future. in a city rocked by upheaval in the past few years. from the protests to the pandemic. and china's ongoing crackdown on hong kong's freedoms. >> it's almost been a perfect storm of social change, political change and now a pandemic. and the hong kong system is struggling to cope with the epidemic of mental health. >> reporter: hong kong's public health system, overwhelmed. patients with nonurgent cases are waiting from nine months to almost two years to see a psychiatrist. the average visit, just six to eight minutes. dr. lucy lord is an obstetrician who suffered debilitating post natural depression. >> everybody has mental health, just like we all have physical health. >> reporter: she's the founder of mindhk, a foundation focused on fighting mental health stigma. only a quarter of those suffering seek professional help. one in seven face a common mental disorder

chair of epidemiology at the university of hong kong, but he joins us now from england. o see you, professor. i want to ask you first about a big story here in right now where you have a number of top government officials who are issuing public apologies. this after they attended a big birthday party in a spanish tapas restaurant monday days after the health secretary here told the public to avoid large crowds because the city was on the verge of a fifth wave of covid infections. now you have all these lawmakers and top government officials going into mandatory government quarantine, and at least one local transmission case from that party, possibly a second, we're getting mixed reports about a false positive there. the question being, is it possible now that we have a scenario where government officials, two years into the pandemic, may be a vector of transmission and spreading the virus in the city? >> well, certainly we see that covid doesn't spare anybody. that around the world a lot of public officials have had covid in the past two years and maybe in hong kong this

of vaccines that remain in china? or vaccine take up? what is the logical excellent nation? >> -- explanation? >> couple things going on. vaccines are universally available in hong kongite a lot of people have had the chinese vaccine, which is not as effective against omicron as the mrna vaccines. we are seeing a lot of vaccine hesitancy in hong kong, particularly among the elderly. only 20% of 80-plus-year-old hong kong people have been vaccinated. some of that is due to misinformation, disinformation, stories going around that a lot of people are dying after getting the vaccine, it also lack of trust in government and government experts, including health care experts, and that dates back to the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations and movement that is getting crushed the government. -- crushed by the government. alix: having 13 million people shut down and shutting down gyms and bars, what is going to be the political, fiscal impulse to that? night there will have to be some kind of backstop. andrew: i don't know that there is a backstop. they have taken the view that there -- they are going to stick with a zero-covid policy and they will stick through that with the o

hong kong for a different reason. up until may be 10. 12 years ago, there was a distinct sense that some of the schools and the universities in hong kong were quite liberal. it was easy to find some place that was not self branding as liberal, but it was, i tend to fight as being liberal. but if you talk to people who specialize in education in hong kong or who observe how education is carried out in hong kong, they wouldn't necessarily describe the same institutions to day as being especially liberal. oh yes. i agree with that and also it's something that i have been observing and also report to badge among vague universities community that is what it's scary things have been going on, but it is really openly reporter for instance. yes, we have. i mean the, and it was in the hong kong, they always have a very big proportions, all foreign lecturers, every profession and so on, in the past 5 years. if not longer off, many, all these for the professors had wes's the night. it all, all it look necessary visa then you know when they turn sixty's and then when they, according to the rules begin the flyer for the expansion of th

university of cape town. thank you. what are some or developments in the pandemic or hong kong has imposed a 2 week a band on flights from 8 countries, including australia, india, britain, and the united states. polish president andre duda has tested positive for covert a poland has one of europe's lowest vaccination rates, and one of its highest death rates with few restrictions on socializing or a vaccine requirements. and friends, president emmanuel macro says he wants to make life or in vaccinated people so complicated that they just have to get jabbed, used a vulgar expression for getting on people's nerves. australia's prime minister says the tammy star novak jockey, which must prove that he sat at, but he has a medical exemption to play the australian open or he'll be on the next plane home . well, number one intends to defend his title in melbourne this month and has previously refused to reveal his vaccination status. is world number one and defending the australian open champion. novak joke of ich giving special treat men or not. people in melbourne are demanding answers. now that john commits the public and se

and also by professor sian griffiths, emeritus professor at the chinese university of hong kong. they can't give the care they should be able to give _ the care they should be able to give and — the care they should be able to give. and when we look at schools, also it _ give. and when we look at schools, also it is _ give. and when we look at schools, also it is clear that things are not all over~ — also it is clear that things are not all over. last week, 300,000 children— all over. last week, 300,000 children were off with covid. over 25,000 _ children were off with covid. over 25,000 teachers off with covid. when you look— 25,000 teachers off with covid. when you look at _ 25,000 teachers off with covid. when you look at the younger children up to age _ you look at the younger children up to age six. — you look at the younger children up to age six. -- — you look at the younger children up to age six, —— year six, levels of infection— to age six, —— year six, levels of infection are _ to age six, —— year six, levels of infection are rising. it seems to me we need _ infection

of the policy. families are -- kids are studying overseas, and people cannot travel. that makes leaving hong kong quite difficult. but we still have an influx of a population. universitiespening, so there are international students coming in. so it will balance out. overall, because of the low interest rate condition and holding power is not quite strong, we believe the residential market will still go up 2% or 3%, that is our forecast. haslinda: but regulations are changing. that might impact interest and sentiment in the market. >> that's right. but whether the government will increase interest rates -- but will the government increase interest rates all of a sudden? no, we believe if it goes up, it will be slow. the impact will be quite marginal. for us, the interest rate here -- if you borrow by mortgage, it is less than 12%. way easy to cover by rental income. i think that still supports the residential market quite well. haslinda: i've been wondering, we've had the property clampdown by china, a credit issue with the likes of evergrande, how might this play out? i'm wondering how it will play out in terms of residential and commercial properties. >> i think the co

hong kong. while for law, i'm trying to record low birth rate. let's bring in to get his baston. he's a visiting fellow at the school of social and behavioral science at rasmus university shows me now via skype from rotted. i'm good. have you with us live on the show. so a record drop in the birthright despite the change really in government policy, to have more than one children or child. i mean, what factors are determined couples from having a larger family? well, yeah. so that's the thing is not only from the planning policy, of course, it is, as the report suggested, very high living costs, very high direct costs associated with having a child. but also, i think, just as important. and since i knew many parts, well, the very high what oppertunity cost specifically to women's careers in that is very gender on equal world where the primary responsibility, childcare, and of course carrying for the parents rest on the shoulders as women. so the cost to women to read is very high plus also the kind of the challenges is getting started in life. the cost of living in the cost of housing, the chances of getting the decent job. then when you add cov it in the panoramic and

of their fellow workers. yet we see that happening time and time again in china. this picture is fawn rang, a 26-year-old p.h.d. student in hong kong's university sociology department where he studies chinese labor relations and the chinese labor movement. and is reported that fong while conducting field work on these thesis about labor empowerment in china on the mainland last august was taken into custody by the chinese authorities under the phrase residential surveil langs at a -- surveillance at a designated location. what is residential surveillance at a designated location? is a coerce measure that allows authorities to hold individuals for up to six month, with no ak -- months with no access lawyers, no okay says to family at all. apparently his research as well as frequent social media posts about workers rights, sexual harassment, and itself displacement of migrant workers put him on beijing's radar. according to one article this young man roamed the factory towns of southern china immersing themselves in workers' lives and supporting them while they tried to strike or seek compensation for work injuries. even the fact that he is a loy