How Singaporeans working in Hong Kong will be spending Christmas

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They may be 2,500 km from home, but these born-and-bred Singaporeans are making the most of the festive season in Hong Kong – and even enjoying the colder climate.

Given what is generally seen as the world's strictest quarantine for arriving travellers – either two or three weeks in a hotel, at your own expense – it's no surprise that Hong Kong residents, the only people allowed to enter or leave the city, are not exactly departing in great numbers.

Amongst them are six Singaporeans who now call the +852 home, but will be staying put and not returning to the Lion City.KELVIN TAY, PRINCIPAL, SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, HONG KONGFebruary 2021, as I needed to accompany my mother and sister home, as their stay in Hong Kong could not be extended. They are not deemed as my dependants. They have to come into Hong Kong as visitors.Hopefully in summer 2022 if there is no quarantine. Otherwise – and most likely – in December 2022.

 

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