The pandemic has led to a lot of new tastes being created. People feel more comfortable about taking risks because they know it's not so bad if things don't work out. The classic example is that city centres are relatively less busy in most countries and suburbs are a lot busier. And then i guess the third reason, which is more hard to measure, is that there has been a kind of cultural change engendered by the pandemic.
John Lee, the successor to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, won by a predictable landslide: he is just the sort of law-and-order type party leaders in Beijing wanted. As the rich world emerges from the pandemic, surges in activity abound—particularly the opening of new businesses. And ahead of the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, we hear about this year’s entrants from Ukraine.
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