{"id":9298,"date":"2021-01-17T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118021\/long-wait-help-hong-kongs-stricken-businesses-say"},"modified":"2021-01-17T01:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T01:00:30","slug":"long-wait-for-help-hong-kongs-stricken-businesses-say-red-tape-is-delaying-critical-covid-19-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/17\/long-wait-for-help-hong-kongs-stricken-businesses-say-red-tape-is-delaying-critical-covid-19-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"Long wait for help: Hong Kong\u2019s stricken businesses say red tape is delaying critical Covid-19 subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"More than a thousand struggling businesses say red tape is keeping them in limbo after months of waiting for critical anti-pandemic financial aid from the Hong Kong government.Estimates from industry groups and government departments show that 1,464 of the hardest-hit firms awaiting help include those forced to suspend operations for more than 100 days through wave after wave of Covid-19 infections over the past year.\u201cAre they waiting for me to go bankrupt?\u201d asked Max Traverse, owner of the\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\/3118021\/long-wait-help-hong-kongs-stricken-businesses-say\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a thousand struggling businesses say red tape is keeping them in limbo after months of waiting for critical anti-pandemic financial aid from the Hong Kong government.Estimates from industry groups and government departments show that 1,464 of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"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\/9298"}],"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\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9299,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9298\/revisions\/9299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}