{"id":8216,"date":"2021-01-14T11:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3117776\/coronavirus-hong-kong-retail-sector-warns-any-cuts"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T11:36:20","slug":"coronavirus-hong-kong-retail-sector-warns-any-cuts-to-shopping-mall-opening-hours-will-kill-businesses-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/coronavirus-hong-kong-retail-sector-warns-any-cuts-to-shopping-mall-opening-hours-will-kill-businesses-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Hong Kong retail sector warns any cuts to shopping mall opening hours will kill businesses, jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s battered retail sector has reacted with fury after the government revealed it was considering cutting shopping centre business hours to tackle the Covid-19 crisis.The Institute of Shopping Centre Management, an industry alliance of about 3,000 retailers, catering firms and mall operators, on Thursday said it strongly opposed the plan and warned the measure would spark a wave of shutdowns and put 450,000 jobs at risk if it materialised.The city\u2019s fourth wave of infections hammered\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\/3117776\/coronavirus-hong-kong-retail-sector-warns-any-cuts\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s battered retail sector has reacted with fury after the government revealed it was considering cutting shopping centre business hours to tackle the Covid-19 crisis.The Institute of Shopping Centre Management, an industry alliance of about 3,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"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\/8216"}],"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\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8217,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/8217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}