Travel with peace of mind without scanning from today｜0+0 in disguise｜Cold weather with a low temperature of 11.6 degrees this morning｜Standard Chartered will raise P interest rate by 0.25% this week｜Li's drama series Jiaxin are accused of being difficult to watch during the cannon fodder period

In the morning, today is Wednesday December 14, 2022. The Observatory predicts that today Hong Kong will be overcast with some showers and the weather will be cold. The maximum temperature during the day is around 14 degrees. Moderate to fresh northerly winds, with occasional strong offshore winds at first. The cold weather alert is now in effect. Everyone really needs to wear more shirts and take care of the elderly around them.

The government abruptly said yesterday that it will lift a number of anti-epidemic rules starting today (14), including the cancellation of “code yellow”, a “travel with peace of mind” scanning exemption and regular mandatory testing requirements for more specific sectors, etc. However, the current “vaccination pass” requirements are completely unchanged, i.e., when entering designated premises, locals are still required to “reverse scan” the needle card’s QR code. When Lu Chongmao, director of the Medical and Health Bureau, was asked whether it was “0+0” in disguise, he pointed out that everyone has a different definition of the two “0s.”

Hit by the replenishment of the northeast monsoon and a swathe of rain, Hong Kong became noticeably cooler yesterday. The Observatory issued its first cold weather warning since winter yesterday, and the Observatory recorded a low temperature this morning of 11.6 degrees. A strong winter monsoon is expected to hit the south China coast on Friday night, and the weather in the region will turn colder over the weekend into early next week, with lows of just 9 degrees on Sunday and next Monday.

The founder of Next Media, Li Zhiying, is suspected of violating the “Hong Kong National Security Law”. Yesterday the High Court scheduled the start of the trial on September 25 next year, which should last 40 days. The defense revealed that Li Zhiying’s lawyer Tim Owen from the UK had left Hong Kong.

There were 13,721 new confirmed cases in Hong Kong yesterday, including 791 imported cases. Moreover, yesterday the number of deaths hit a new high since April 17 this year: 37 people died, 22 men and 15 women, aged between 50 and 98, of which 5 came from institutions.

Promoting today’s article: We launched the “2022 Highlights Review”, and today we launched the August Review. If you still have impressions of the month’s events, you can enter and review them. In addition, we have also created a retrospective news topic, where you can watch 2022 retrospectives in different fields and categories at the same time.

In addition, we also interviewed a number of “2022 figures”. Today I will share with you an exclusive interview with Ye Wenqi, the founder of Miaofang Mil Mill. Mil Mill recently shared a photo from visiting a local factory in Singapore. Ye Wenqi revealed that Hong Kong can still handle part of the business and is considering leasing the Stonecutters Island site, but will open a factory in Singapore in the future and plans to shift investment focus to the local area,” (Hong Kong ) In such an environment, it’s really not worth spending so much money and intriguing.”

Download the Yahoo News APP now

In terms of finance and the economy, the Fed will discuss interest rates this week and the market generally estimates that it will raise interest rates by 0.5%. Liu Jianheng, Greater China senior economist at Standard Chartered, predicts Hong Kong banks could follow a hike in the prime rate (P). As for next year’s Lunar New Year, funds will be tighter and interest rates will remain high. Additionally, the US could raise interest rates by 0.25% in early February. Depending on interest rates and economic conditions at the time, the prime rate can increase from 0.125% to 0.25%.

Additionally, reports cited data that Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, also experienced capital outflows. $2 billion has been outflowed in the last 24 hours.

In terms of entertainment, TVB’s new drama “A Kind of Good Man” starring Li Jiaxin (Ali), Ma Dezhong, Chen Ziyao and Wu Weihao will reprise “Forensic Pioneer V” and premiere on December 26th. This drama is Ali’s last TVB drama One is available, so a group of netizens and fans are dissatisfied that the series is expected to be released at the end of New Year’s Eve.

A newspaper interviewed Asha Xu Siqiao and Wei Junsheng Jeffrey, who starred in ViuTV’s drama series “Million Cohabitation Project”. Asha said it was good to be in a relationship with leader Anson Lo in the drama. As for Jeffrey, she was about to compete with Anson Lo for a daughter. Jeffrey said that after he woke up during the shooting and started working, everyone met again, after he got along well with the actors, it was really like living together, and the feeling of being a family also made him very happy.

It’s coming to the end of the year and the[Yahoo Search Popularity Award]will be revealed soon! This year’s awards ceremony continues the new direction of virtual and reality, creating the first space-time parallel “reality x metaverse” awards ceremony in Hong Kong, which will be held on December 23rd. International Exhibition and Trade Center, The awards ceremony was extended to the world of the “Metaverse” and was held simultaneously. If you want to buy entrance tickets, you should pay attention to our introductory article.

As for the World Cup, the first semi-final match was staged early in the morning: Argentina beat Croatia 3-0 and entered the final first. Also, a limited-time game presented by Yahoo Hong Kong「Yahoo Football RUN!」continue to welcome everyone to participate.

Let’s look at today’s top news: