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Why is there a global shipping container crisis?

“Supply chain crisis” became an often-used phrase during the coronavirus pandemic as Covid-19 caused vast economic disruption across the world. It has been used to explain bare supermarket shelves and why goods are taking much longer to reach businesses and consumers. The pandemic has laid bare vulnerabilities in the global shipping industry, which remains affected by a shortage of crew, available containers in Asia and capacity at major ports in the United States and Europe.

Sham Shui Po - How a changing community of diversity gets connected

Having worked in Sham Shui Po for six years, Tiffany Fung noticed an influx of diverse shops in the area. Coffee, art, and books — the cultural elements that seem to mainly belong to young people, or to say, hipsters, invaded the area which was for long considered as Hong Kong’s poorest district. South Asian vendors, the homeless, subdivided units residents, together with the hipsters and artists — Sham Shui Po epitomizes the unique diversity of the city of Hong Kong. From Tai Nan Street to Ki L