Hong Kong property giant New World Development taps into lucrative elderly...
Hong Kong property giant New World Development will sail into uncharted waters with a five-year HK$1.4 billion (US$179 million) investment in technological health care services for the ageing...
View ArticlePrenetics is first Hong Kong firm to take genetic test kit for cancer risk...
Prenetics, a Hong Kong-based biotechnology start-up, is about to become the first home-grown company to sell genetic profiling kits that test for the risk of cancer directly to the consumer. Until now...
View ArticleWhat we know about cancer in Hong Kong and how government plans to tackle...
Cancer is seen as a growing health threat both locally and internationally. In Hong Kong, the annual number of new cases of the disease is expected to rise by about 30 to 40 per cent in 2030 compared...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence could help diagnose cancer in future, say Hong Kong...
Artificial intelligence could one day prevent the failure to diagnose cancer in Hong Kong patients, doctors in the city said on Thursday – but it will not happen any time soon. Dr Poon Wai-lun, a...
View ArticleHong Kong food safety centre warns consumers to avoid eating romaine lettuce...
Hong Kong food safety authorities have warned the public to avoid consuming romaine lettuce from the United States and Canada because of possible E coli infection. The call came after the city’s Centre...
View ArticleThree companies working on Hong Kong’s Central-Wan Chai Bypass fined for for...
Three contractors building a major road link on Hong Kong Island were fined on Thursday for making too much noise and pouring their dirty waste water into drains during construction. Chun Wo...
View ArticleHK$2 million donation by Li Ka Shing Foundation gives hope to infant cancer...
There was a glimmer of hope for a 17-month-old cancer patient on Friday, after a charity fund founded by Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing donated HK$2 million (US$255,400) to a medical subsidy...
View ArticleHong Kong’s ambulance services are busier than ever, but abuse of the...
Veteran paramedic Li Wai-keung recalls the time his crew was called out to a bus terminus at Deep Water Bay. “There were four teenagers and one of them said he had an upset stomach, so after assessing...
View ArticleIsland residents warn against Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation, fearing...
As Lam Chi-ngai, 76, sets foot on the remote Sunshine Island, mosquitoes swarm parts of his exposed skin, hungry for a rare taste of human blood. But the ex-resident soldiers on, not bothering to swat...
View ArticleHong Kong feels tremors after magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes off the coast...
Nearly 1,000 Hong Kong residents reported feeling tremors after an earthquake struck off the coast of Taiwan on Monday morning. Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau first issued an alert at 7.57am about a...
View ArticleHong Kong summit on human gene editing to discuss regulation in wake of claim...
International experts gathered at a summit in Hong Kong that opens Tuesday will discuss how gene editing should be regulated, as a mainland scientist claimed he had helped create the world’s first...
View ArticleBeloved Hong Kong bull Billy found dead with stomach full of plastic bags,...
Hong Kong beachgoers have been urged to take their trash home, after one of the city’s most beloved bovines was found dead with a stomach full of plastic. Billy, an eight-year-old bull who lived on Pui...
View ArticleMan, 61, fighting for his life in Hong Kong after passing out while running...
A 61-year-old man was fighting for his life in hospital in Hong Kong on Tuesday after passing out while running on a treadmill. Emergency services were called to the Physical Fitness Centre on the 10th...
View ArticleIkea recalls Glivarp table after reports of pieces falling off, including two...
Ikea recalled an extendable dining table on Tuesday after reports that parts of it were falling off, including two from Hong Kong. The Swedish furniture chain said customers who had bought the product...
View ArticleSafe sex still best way to avoid HIV infection, says top Hong Kong doctor as...
Hong Kong’s top HIV doctor has said safe sex remains the best way of avoiding infection by the virus that causes Aids, despite reports of the world’s first genetically modified babies being immune to...
View ArticleChinese expert in bioethics slams mainland scientist He Jiankui who claims to...
A top mainland Chinese expert in bioethics has criticised the actions of a Chinese scientist who shocked the world by claiming to have created the world’s first gene-edited children, saying that it...
View Article75,000 doses of Sanofi Pasteur flu vaccine from batch containing impurities...
About 75,000 doses of imported flu vaccine belonging to a batch containing impurities have been administered in Hong Kong, the city’s health authorities disclosed on Tuesday. The Department of Health...
View ArticleHong Kong halts sale and import of California romaine lettuce, blamed for...
Hong Kong has suspended the sale and import of romaine lettuce – also known as cos – harvested in California after US food safety investigators found the vegetable grown in the state appeared to be the...
View ArticleVitasoy told to take responsibility for recycling after sample shows 74 per...
Most of the drinks cartons piling up in Hong Kong’s landfills come from just one producer and it is high time the firm takes responsibility for recycling the containers, a green group has warned....
View ArticleChinese scientist He Jiankui at centre of gene-editing controversy ran second...
The Chinese scientist who claimed he created the world’s first gene-edited babies had conducted a similar experiment on abandoned human embryos, it has been revealed. The revelation raised more ethical...
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