TOKYO -- The economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic has reached Hong Kong's all-important service sector, as businesses from railways to retailers report the ill effects of the contagion.
Guangshen Railway, which operates train service between Hong Kong and mainland China, is expecting to record a net loss of between 450 million yuan and 550 million yuan ($63.6 million and $77.7 million) for the first three months of the year. The company, which has run the 173-km through-train service connecting Kowloon and Guangzhou for almost a century and is listed in both Hong Kong and Shanghai, made 390.3 million yuan in profit for the same period last year.
