Bloomberg Hong Kong police rejected an application by a pro-democracy labour group to hold a march on May 1, citing concerns about public health and security risks, the government said in a statement. The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions had proposed to hold the march in groups of four spaced at least 1.5 metres apart. It expressed concern in ...

Bloomberg The US Supreme Court let President Donald Trump’s administration keep using a tough test to screen out green card applicants who might become dependent on government benefits, refusing to halt the policy because of the Covid-19 outbreak. With no published dissents, the justices rejected a request from a New York-led group of state and local governments that said emergency ...

Across the developing world, the defining images of the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic have been of migrant workers: abandoned, angry, starving. In their zeal to control the spread of the new coronavirus, governments have all too often betrayed their most aspirational citizens — those who move from countryside to cities to build better lives for themselves and their families. ...