Central-Wan Chai Bypass inspires call for air purification systems across...
Green groups have urged the Hong Kong government to set up more air purification systems in high-traffic areas, inspired by the world’s largest version for the Central-Wan Chai Bypass, which can remove...
View ArticleOne child and seven adults die in space of five days as flu season gets off...
The flu season got off to a deadly start in Hong Kong claiming the lives of one child and seven adults in the space of five days, health authorities said on Friday. Another 18 adults reportedly have...
View ArticleIs Hong Kong doing enough to stem alcoholism among city’s youth?
On the rooftop of a Hong Kong shopping mall, 12-year-old Alice (not her real name) took her first shot of vodka, with her 15-year-old schoolmates egging her on. “I felt cool, pretty and attractive,”...
View ArticleGame enough to try something new: e-sports give Hong Kong retirees fresh take...
At an e-sports tournament in Hong Kong’s D2 Place mall in Lai Chi Kok, players are locked in on the action on their computer screens, as they signal teammates decked out in headsets in a strategy to...
View ArticleHunt for Hong Kong tuberculosis patient who bolted from isolation ward in...
The Hospital Authority is looking into how a tuberculosis patient under isolation was able to escape from his ward, Hong Kong’s health chief said. Secretary for Food and Health Sophia Chan Siu-chee...
View ArticleBaby Chi-hoi needs a life-saving heart op, but odds are stacked against...
The chances of finding a new heart for a severely ill Hong Kong baby appear to be remote, after it emerged that the city has had only three child donors under the age of six in the past decade. A Post...
View ArticleHong Kong diver drowns during night excursion off coast of Sai Kung
A 37-year-old Hong Kong man drowned during a night dive in the sea off Sai Kung on Saturday night. The man, surnamed Chan, went out with six other friends at Bate Head, which is also known as Tuen...
View ArticleNon-urgent patients wait up to 8 hours at Hong Kong’s public hospitals amid...
Overcrowded public hospital wards are bracing for an even heavier winter flu load ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday next month, with non-urgent patients having to wait up to eight hours to see a...
View ArticleHong Kong could get less polluted winter thanks to El Niño, as weather effect...
Hong Kong could experience a less polluted winter than normal if a strong enough El Niño weather effect whips up in the Pacific Ocean towards the end of what is typically the smoggiest season of the...
View ArticleHong Kong children spending up to 8 hours glued to screens, as 20pc of...
More than half of Hong Kong schoolchildren spend more than two hours daily on electronic devices and, in the most extreme cases, up to eight hours glued to screens, according to a poll by the city’s...
View ArticleHong Kong food safety watchdog tightens checks on imported products after...
Hong Kong’s food watchdog said on Monday it had tightened checks on food entering the city via air, land and sea after a government auditor’s report accused it of failing to ensure product safety. New...
View ArticleHong Kong flu season already more virulent than last year, with nine more...
Winter flu in Hong Kong appeared to be more deadly than last year, having claimed nine more lives in the space of three days, pushing up the death toll to 16 this year. Four more children with...
View ArticleWhat Hong Kong can learn from an old Berlin airport on bottom-up city planning
Tempelhof Field in south-central Berlin is the first stop Jonas Schorr shows to visitors, as an example of how bottom-up city planning ties into the development of a smart city. “Sometimes, the...
View ArticleHong Kong Observatory announces 2018 was city’s third hottest year in...
Last year was Hong Kong’s third warmest year, with the hottest May since records began, the Observatory said on Tuesday. The Observatory said the city’s warm weather in 2018 was part of a global...
View ArticleHong Kong’s worst maritime accidents: from Lamma ferry crash on National Day...
At least one crewman was killed, seven others injured and two were still missing after an oil tanker fire off the coast of Lamma Island in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Emergency personnel had to rescue...
View ArticlePregnant Hongkongers urged to get whooping cough vaccine as number of cases...
Pregnant women should get the whooping cough vaccine so the effects can be passed to their babies, Hong Kong’s health authorities have said, after a large increase in the number of infected infants in...
View ArticleChemical compound discovered by HKU-led team could open the way for a new...
Researchers in Hong Kong have discovered a chemical compound that helps stave off multiple viruses, including the deadly Sars virus, raising hopes of a drug that can work against an array of...
View ArticleFewer days of dirty air in Hong Kong in 2018, green group says – but it’s not...
Hongkongers may have spent fewer days breathing in unhealthy air last year, according to a green group’s analysis of official data. Green Power’s findings came as the Environmental Protection...
View ArticleBaby Chi-hoi battles potentially fatal blood clots as wait for life-saving...
A critically ill Hong Kong baby who will die without a heart transplant has had emergency surgery to remove potentially fatal blood clots. The update on the condition of 13-month-old Hui Chi-hoi, who...
View ArticleFrustrated with the government’s recycling services, Hongkongers are taking...
Hauling large bags of plastic food packaging, egg cartons, polystyrene trays and other recyclable garbage, residents of Sai Ying Pun wait patiently as volunteers sort the items into their respective...
View Article