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After my bit on Monday about the Van Gogh Mooncake Set we’ve partnered up with SENSES to sell, we got our first preorder!

You know who you are, and we would like to say an immense thank you. Feel free to send us a “you’re welcome” back once you’ve received your beautiful, tasty, and all-around delightful mooncakes. Cyril would also love to take you out for a drink sometime.

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Penny’s Bay to make room for domestic helpers

The government will be making 800 rooms at the Penny’s Bay camp available for foreign domestic helpers arriving from overseas countries to stay during their 21-day quarantine periods.

“Now that we don’t have local cases and not as many close contacts that need to undergo quarantine, we have room to arrange quarantine for foreign domestic workers.”

— Chief Executive Carrie Lam

The rooms will cost around HK$500 a night, and they will be available at the end of the month with booking to start in three weeks.

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COVID-19

Hong Kong SAR Government News @newsgovhk

The Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating two additional imported #COVID19 cases involving patients who arrived from Greece and Turkey

news.gov.hk2 imported COVID-19 cases foundThe Centre for Health Protection says it is investigating two additional imported COVID-19 cases involving patients who arrived from Greece and Turkey.

8:11 AM ∙ Aug 31, 2021

New cases: 2 (imported)

For more COVID-19 statistics, go to worldometers.

Protests

Updates in the court cases and aftermath of the 2019-20 Anti-Extradition Law/pro-democracy protests:

• A man, already convicted for rioting once within the last five years, has received a four-year jail sentence for rioting with a facial covering (paywalled) on at an unauthorised protest in Yau Ma Tei.

• District councillor Leung Pak-kin, who was involved in a protest-related incident of police officers storming an MTR station in 2019, received a letter with a blade and a threatening message inside.

Health

Non-permanent resident doctors with specialist qualifications from overseas institutions will be able to work at public hospitals under a new scheme.

This special registration scheme will accept applicants with qualifications from institutions recognised by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

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What else is happening?

Please keep in mind that all these stories are from the SCMP, which means they’ll most likely be paywalled and only available in full for paying subscribers.

• Our kids are happier than ever – ok, happier than they have been in the last seven years.

• Barristers can put away the wigs to accommodate their religious head coverings.

• Half of the newborn white dolphins in surrounding HK waters lived for over two years according to an annual government report. There are an estimated 37 white dolphins left in the waters of Lantau Island.

• The Open University? Never heard of her. Hong Kong Metropolitan University (fka The Open University of Hong Kong) has paid SCMP to let everybody know that they have got themselves a “new name, new head, new directions”.

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Appointments

The Law Reform Commission appointed Mr Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon as a new member for three years, starting today.

The Committee on Home-School Co-operation welcomed six new members and welcomed back eight incumbent members for a two-year tenure, starting today.

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