Nearly 20 mainland Chinese pig farms cut supplies to Hong Kong and Macau as...
Almost 20 mainland Chinese pig farms have suspended supplies to Hong Kong and Macau, as the African swine fever outbreak continues to spread north of the border. But industry insiders said pork prices...
View ArticleNew 3D mapping system with one-stop data source allows Hong Kong planners to...
A new 3D-mapping system has allowed Hong Kong authorities to plan and visualise the dense urban environment in a faster and easier way, much like in the computer game SimCity. The 3D Planning and...
View ArticleHong Kong’s pork prices likely to rise as pig supplies from mainland China...
Pork prices in Hong Kong are set to go up with one local Michelin-starred restaurant cutting back on one of its dishes as the number of mainland Chinese pig farms halting supplies to the city rose to...
View ArticleLaughter is the best medicine as doctors and staff at Hong Kong Sanatorium &...
More than 2,000 doctors, nurses and medical staff took part in a month-long campaign at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital in Happy Valley, raising over HK$1 million for charity and proving that...
View ArticleHong Kong fails to meet midterm waste reduction target, with per capita waste...
Hong Kong has failed to meet its midterm waste reduction target, as latest official figures showed that the daily municipal solid waste the average citizen sent into landfills last year had increased...
View ArticleCommunication woes between ethnic minority patients and Hong Kong doctors...
Yousaf Akbar, 40, came to Hong Kong from Pakistan in the late 1980s, but since last year, he has been spending time between the bed and a wheelchair at home. He relies on strips of cloth to shackle his...
View ArticleHong Kong weather set to get colder for New Year’s Eve, temperatures as low...
Hongkongers will need to break out the scarves and hats if they head out to celebrate the new year on Monday night, with a cold and windy few days on the way, according to forecasters. New Year’s Eve...
View ArticleHong Kong to strengthen measures against African swine fever, after pressure...
Hong Kong will strengthen its protections against African swine fever after officials came under pressure from farmers amid fears of local infection. The new measures, in response to the virus’ spread...
View ArticleIs anyone listening? Hong Kong educators and counsellors call for more...
At Chinese University, students unload their heartaches and exam stress by “whispering” confessions into a tree hole, albeit a digital one on Facebook. The premise for the Tree Hole social media page...
View ArticleDiving gives young Hongkonger the confidence to follow her dream of becoming...
Kara Ngai Li-yung, a 19-year-old diver emerges from the sea after collecting bags of plastic foam and beer bottles in the water. “People throw a lot of trash into the sea, there’s plastic everywhere in...
View ArticleAll dressed up and nowhere to go … except to landfills: fast consumer fashion...
Hong Kong shoppers are poised to splash out on apparel this holiday season, with more than HK$5 billion in sales rung up last December at boutiques around town. As new clothes pour into city wardrobes,...
View ArticleSmelly harbours and lifeless waters? Lantau Tomorrow Vision reclamation could...
An ambitious plan to build artificial islands in Hong Kong waters could suffocate marine life, creating smelly harbours for future residents, ocean scientists warned, with some fearing that the...
View ArticleHong Kong cold snap kills one, temperatures plunging to 6.3 degrees Celsius...
The Hong Kong cold snap claimed one life on Sunday, after six people were sent to hospital with hypothermia, as the temperature dropped below 10 degrees Celsius in several parts of the city. The...
View ArticleIncreased tourist numbers from new bridge are worsening the feeding problems...
The opening of the mega cross-border bridge has worsened the problem of feral cattle consuming human food and plastic bags with more visitors joining local residents in feeding the animals in a tourist...
View ArticleDisclosing medical blunders is ‘Hong Kong standard’ of doing things: head of...
The head of a Shenzhen hospital run by the University of Hong Kong has said the first fatal medical blunder under his leadership was dealt with transparently and in line with the “Hong Kong standard”...
View ArticleWarning as Hong Kong’s cold snap continues with 10 more treated for...
Ten more people were treated for hypothermia in Hong Kong on Tuesday, with doctors warning the elderly to beware of the continued cold snap before temperatures warmed up at the weekend. Over the past...
View ArticleHelicopter sent for injured Hong Kong hiker after 5-metre fall down cliff...
A government helicopter was deployed to rescue an injured hiker in a Hong Kong country park on Wednesday after he fell five metres down a cliff face. The 58-year-old man was among a group of five men...
View ArticleParents face agonising wait for heart donor as 13-month-old son’s life hangs...
A Hong Kong couple face a heartbreaking wait to see if a second son dies of a rare genetic disorder. The parents of 13-month-old Hui Chi-hoi, lost their first child in 2016 at seven months old to...
View ArticleHong Kong enters winter peak flu season week earlier than last year with...
Influenza activity is expected to increase in the coming weeks as the city has entered the winter peak flu season, the health authorities have warned. Dr Wong Ka-hing, controller of the Centre for...
View ArticleYou’re right, it didn’t feel a lot like Christmas in Hong Kong, December was...
This winter’s unseasonably warm Christmas period came amid the fourth hottest December in the city on record, according to the Hong Kong Observatory. A mean minimum temperature of 17.6 degrees Celsius...
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