{"id":9789,"date":"2021-01-18T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3118223\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-restaurants-beauty-parlours"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:39:58","slug":"hong-kong-fourth-wave-restaurants-beauty-parlours-demand-immediate-easing-of-covid-19-rules-to-prevent-onslaught-of-closures-lay-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/18\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-restaurants-beauty-parlours-demand-immediate-easing-of-covid-19-rules-to-prevent-onslaught-of-closures-lay-offs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong fourth wave: restaurants, beauty parlours demand immediate easing of Covid-19 rules to prevent onslaught of closures, lay-offs"},"content":{"rendered":"\ufeffHong Kong\u2019s restaurant and beauty industries have issued ultimatums to the government calling for the immediate reopening of premises shuttered by Covid-19 rules, warning of a tidal wave of closures and lay-offs if their demands are not met.Fifteen groups in the beauty sector banded together on Monday to make their final case for resuming operations, offering to adopt extra health precautions so they could be back in business this week when the existing social-distancing curbs expire.They said\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\/3118223\/hong-kong-fourth-wave-restaurants-beauty-parlours\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffHong Kong\u2019s restaurant and beauty industries have issued ultimatums to the government calling for the immediate reopening of premises shuttered by Covid-19 rules, warning of a tidal wave of closures and lay-offs if their demands are not met.Fifteen gr&#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\/9789"}],"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=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}