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...As part of the transaction, Tokopedia will acquire TikTok Shop’s local business for $340mn....
...But analysts say that if companies in more sensitive and higher-value sectors start to set up shop, that may invite scrutiny....
...Some shops welcome more regulation of the sector....
...“We French like to experiment with what our palates and our noses can do,” Julie Lam of another historic tea boutique, Dammann Frères, said to me on my visit....
...Lam was forced to withdraw the bill. The campaigners’ sense of relief was short-lived....
...Business leaders have warned of an uncertain recovery with no clear exit from the punishing restrictions, even after city leader Carrie Lam signalled relaxations of some measures beginning in April....
...But his move to back the Hong Kong government’s abrupt culling of more than 1,000 hamsters and small animals, after two Covid cases were discovered at Little Boss pet shop, has been controversial....
...Pass through Cyberport, Pok Fu Lam and around Mount Davis to finish along the bustling Victoria Harbour promenade....
...In April, Pearl Lam Galleries announced it would represent Mr Doodle globally....
...This was through initiatives such as the newly formed medical workers union and a website informing users of safe shops to buy protective gear....
...Now even those establishments have been swept away by a tide of artisan pizzerias, trendy coffee shops and craft breweries....
...TikTok gets Shopify’dWith social commerce finally starting to scale up in the US, TikTok users there will be able to shop as they scroll through its short-form videos....
...One, Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February; another, Lam Wing-kee, has fled to Taiwan....
...An online rumour prompted a run on toilet paper and tissues, with shop shelves empty in a number of stores....
...Shop owners have been taking down signs supporting pro-democracy protests and residents deleting their social media and online histories....
...Ms Lam also announced the resumption of social distancing measures but fell short of mandating a total lockdown....
...By the end of the year, nearly all of Apple’s major suppliers in the region had set up shop in Vietnam or planned to do so....
...Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, appealed to landlords this week to lower rents for shop tenants, while the French government has urged property owners to show clemency to small and medium-sized businesses...
...Thousands of Hong Kongers defied a government ban on wearing face masks on Sunday, holding marches across the city and vandalising rail stations, shops and mainland Chinese banks....
...The narrow, labyrinthine block has a scruffy feel, and its quirkier tenants have included a cigar shop and a muddled toy store....
...Chow Tai Fook said it would review the leases on 40 of its shops that were due to expire in the next financial year, which runs from April 2020 and March 2021....
...On the day he was shot, the high school student and some fellow protesters were tackling a riot policeman in front of a Chinese bun shop in the outlying district of Tsuen Wan....
...Ms Lam has already acceded to another of the protesters’ demands, pledging to withdraw a controversial extradition bill....
...In an editorial, the FT say the move by Ms Lam will not end the protests in HK. In this video, Jamil Anderlini says the gesture is too little too late....
...One asked: “In what world do you take a young girl to a sex shop three days after hiring her?” 4....
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