{"id":10248,"date":"2021-01-19T10:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118356\/it-took-coronavirus-pandemic-get-hong-kong-embrace"},"modified":"2021-01-19T10:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T10:49:40","slug":"it-took-the-coronavirus-pandemic-to-get-hong-kong-to-embrace-e-commerce-but-it-looks-like-its-here-to-stay-industry-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/19\/it-took-the-coronavirus-pandemic-to-get-hong-kong-to-embrace-e-commerce-but-it-looks-like-its-here-to-stay-industry-leaders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"It took the coronavirus pandemic to get Hong Kong to embrace e-commerce, but it looks like it\u2019s here to stay, industry leaders say"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong finally jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon over the past year as social-distancing measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic kept residents at home, with industry leaders saying they expect the changes to stick \u2013 even in a post-coronavirus world.Speaking on Tuesday at the latest edition of the \u201cRedefining Hong Kong Debate Series\u201d, an online forum organised by the South China Morning Post, those in the sector said disruptions to bricks-and-mortar businesses appeared to have pushed\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118356\/it-took-coronavirus-pandemic-get-hong-kong-embrace\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong finally jumped on the e-commerce bandwagon over the past year as social-distancing measures related to the Covid-19 pandemic kept residents at home, with industry leaders saying they expect the changes to stick \u2013 even in a post-coronavirus wo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}