Is it possible to live off-grid in Hong Kong? ‘Yeah Man’ grows his own...
Making a fire with sticks, cooking without a stove, getting water from a creek – this is the every day routine for Mok Ho-kwong, a 36-year-old man who chooses to live a simple and green life in the New...
View ArticleMore aggressive wild boars may be put down, says Hong Kong agriculture chief
The number of wild boars caught in Hong Kong reached a five-year high in 2018, with district councils calling for better education to warn the public not to feed the animals – thought to be one of the...
View ArticleHong Kong chokes under haze and high pollution levels, but clearer air...
Hongkongers can expect another smog-filled day on Sunday before monsoon winds bring a breath of fresh air, as 15 of the city’s 16 air quality stations recorded high to very high health warning levels...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Chinese University successfully completes clinical trials of...
By the time she was 76, Cheng Choi-yuk had had enough of hospital visits. She was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer in 2005. Then she suffered a stroke. In July 2017, a malignant tumour was found...
View ArticleExpress rail train taken out of service after passenger intercepted in Hong...
An express rail train was taken out of service on Sunday night after a passenger suspected to be suffering from the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) was intercepted in Hong Kong. The man,...
View ArticleHealth officials investigate death of 60-year-old male patient after liver...
A 60-year-old man bled heavily and died in Princess Margaret Hospital after a procedure to extract liver tissue, prompting an investigation by Hong Kong medical officials. The Hospital Authority is...
View ArticleInternational kindergarten closes after flu outbreak, as government monitors...
A privately run kindergarten has been closed after a flu outbreak, while authorities were also monitoring two public schools after dozens of children were stricken with the illness. Tsing Yi...
View ArticleTens of thousands in Hong Kong to have their DNA sequenced in...
Tens of thousands of Hongkongers will have their entire genetic code decrypted in a government-backed project aimed at building a database to boost diagnoses of rare illnesses and aid bespoke cancer...
View ArticleHong Kong university joins forces with top overseas institutions to set up...
The first international research centre in Hong Kong to focus on neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia will be established jointly by a local university and three top overseas institutions. The...
View ArticleWild boars in Hong Kong: are they dangerous, why are there more of them...
Wild boars have been seen venturing out of the woods and into Hong Kong’s urban areas, ending up in residential buildings, shopping malls and even the airport in recent years. Last week the problem was...
View ArticleNurses plan protest as Hong Kong’s public hospitals reach flu season breaking...
Nurses in Hong Kong’s overcrowded public hospitals are planning to protest on Sunday, saying they are stretched to breaking point by the peak flu season. Chairman of Hong Kong’s biggest nurses union,...
View ArticleDead pig found on Hong Kong beach amid African swine fever fears
A dead pig found on a beach on an outlying island in Hong Kong on Thursday sparked an investigation into where it came from amid concerns over an African swine fever epidemic in mainland China. The...
View ArticleHong Kong Baptist University researchers invent faster, cheaper and more...
Researchers at a Hong Kong university have invented a faster, cheaper and more accurate way to identify how resistant bacteria are to antibiotics in individual patients. The team from Baptist...
View ArticleHong Kong’s air quality targets pitched too low to favour development such as...
A new set of proposed five-year air quality objectives running up to 2025 may have been pitched overly conservatively to make it easier for major future projects like a large-scale reclamation east of...
View Article208 Hong Kong kindergartens and childcare centres told to shut for a week...
Health authorities have told more than 200 Hong Kong kindergartens and childcare centres with outbreaks of seasonal influenza to close for a week to curb further spread of the disease. The Centre for...
View ArticleCarrie Lam brings in new payment for Hong Kong’s elderly poor in bid to end...
Hong Kong’s leader managed to pacify her political allies in the legislature on Friday, as she announced a new monthly cash handout to compensate senior citizens who would be deprived of their regular...
View ArticleMan from Pakistan spent almost 20 years unaware how sick he was – because he...
For almost two decades, Ali (not his real name) was never clear about how ill he was or how he had been treated, despite regular follow-ups in hospitals. An Urdu-speaker with little English or Chinese,...
View ArticleHong Kong paralympian applies sports dedication to second love – blog on...
As Asia’s best female boccia player and world No 4 in her category, Ho Yuen-kei is working full time towards qualifying for next year’s Paralympic Games in Tokyo – but excellence in her precision ball...
View Article26 more kindergartens and childcare centres to shut for a week amid Hong Kong...
Health authorities on Saturday told 26 more Hong Kong kindergartens and childcare centres to shut down for a week following outbreaks of seasonal influenza, bringing the total number of closed...
View ArticleProtesting Hong Kong nurses demand action over manpower shortages, saying...
Hong Kong authorities must hire more nurses to tackle an ongoing manpower crisis at public hospitals, according to the city’s largest nursing guild. More than 100 members of the Association of Hong...
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