Boost for Hong Kong as travel warning lifted

(3-Jun-2003) - HONG KONG. In a big boost to travel retailers in Hong Kong and China, the World Health Organization (WHO) last month withdrew its warning against travel to Hong Kong and the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

(1-Mar-2003) - HONG KONG. The pneumonia epidemic which started in a Hong Kong hospital last week and rapidly spread to scores of staff, doctors and patients, prompting a World Health Organisation warning, looks set to lead to large-scale flight cancellations.

(4-Apr-2003) - HONG KONG. Latest figures from Hong Kong show that the atypical pneumonia virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has so far killed 14 people in the territory, continues to spread with disastrous consequences for Asian airports.

(24-Jun-2003) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Hong Kong free of the SARS virus, but retailers say they are unlikely to see a recovery until the end of summer.

(2-Aug-2003) - HONG KONG/CHINA. A new ferry service is set to connect Hong Kong International airport (HKIA) with seaports in southern China.