A flexible approach to eating is good for you and for the planet. In the Year...
The idea of promoting vegetable-rich diets and encouraging people to reduce meat consumption has become a topic of intense discussion the world over the past few years. Very often, the argument centres...
View ArticleHong Kong doctors investigating after first death of the year from...
A 55-year-old man with underlying illnesses has died from legionnaires’ disease, the first such death in the city this year, according to health authorities. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP)...
View ArticleHow your smartphone battery can power the re-industrialisation of Hong Kong’s...
Entrepreneur Eric Wong Sing-hung sees a waste crisis on the horizon and has a big idea to solve it. Smartphone in hand, the 70-year-old taps the back of its case – batteries. Specifically, the...
View ArticleCanada reports world’s first case of rat-to-human hepatitis E infection...
A case of rat-to-human hepatitis E infection has been documented in Canada, the first to be reported outside Hong Kong. The case, concerning a middle-aged Canadian man who had visited Africa,...
View ArticleHow Hong Kong electricity company CLP is saving millions of dollars, and...
Vincent Yan Kwok-hung’s childhood dream was to fly planes. Things did not quite work out the way he had imagined – he is now an engineer at power utility CLP – but he takes comfort in the fact he has...
View ArticlePork back on the menu in Hong Kong after live pigs return following three-day...
Live pigs were back on Hong Kong butchers’ tables on Friday, after a three-day ban on fresh pork to allow the city’s slaughterhouses to be cleaned amid concerns over African swine fever. Butchers at...
View ArticleCows go foraging in Lantau Island supermarket, which Hong Kong animal...
A supermarket on Lantau Island had some unexpected visitors on Thursday night, when a group of hungry bulls wandered the aisles and fed on fruit, prompting a concern group to call for more public...
View ArticleDisabled Hong Kong tour guides get creative in building careers by making...
At first glance, Vincent Li Pok looks like your average 33-year-old Hongkonger, sporting a neat undercut, blue shirt and khakis. But as he introduces the history of Sunbeam Theatre in North Point to...
View ArticleAs threat of global warming becomes deadly reality, what can Hong Kong do to...
In parts of the United States this month wind chills brought already Arctic temperatures down to minus 39 degrees Celsius. More than 20 people died as a result of the polar vortex. Meanwhile, in...
View ArticleBulls invading ParknShop supermarket a one-off, Hong Kong conservation chief...
A bizarre incident last week in which hungry bulls wandered the aisles of a Lantau Island supermarket was rare and likely to be a one-off, Hong Kong’s conservation chief said on Sunday. But he admitted...
View ArticleLack of sleep could damage DNA and affect gene repair, possibly raising...
Sleep deprivation can damage DNA and the body’s ability to repair this, possibly leading to higher chances of genetic diseases such as cancer, a study has found. The University of Hong Kong research,...
View ArticleIs Hong Kong’s fishing industry being thrown a lifeline and will the farmers...
In the winter of 2015, rare toxic algal blooms began spreading across Hong Kong waters. Lee Muk-kam’s floating fish farm in the sheltered bay off Tai Po’s Sam Mun Tsai was one of the mariculture zones...
View ArticleTwo porpoise carcasses found on separate Hong Kong shores, bringing number of...
Two porpoise carcasses were found on separate Hong Kong shores on Sunday, bringing the total number of stranded cases involving the marine animal to 15 this year – a figure that was alarming,...
View ArticleHealth service bureaucracy has gone too far says head of Hong Kong’s oldest...
The head of Hong Kong’s oldest medical school has said the Hospital Authority is too bureaucratic and questioned whether extra meetings truly benefit patients. In a rare display of public disagreement,...
View ArticleRed tape at Hong Kong Hospital Authority: senior health care official and...
A senior Hong Kong health care official and another board member at the authority that manages the city’s public hospitals have added their voices to calls for the organisation to slash red tape....
View ArticleHong Kong pushes ahead with blanket ban on e-cigarettes, with maximum penalty...
Tourists will have to abandon their e-cigarettes before entering Hong Kong, as the city prepares to roll out a blanket ban on alternative smoking products, with a maximum penalty of six months'...
View ArticleFirefighter who soothed Hong Kong kindergarten pupils after bus crash tells...
Saving a fragile heart is as important as saving a life, said a veteran firefighter widely praised as warm-hearted after a video in which he calmed a group of distraught infants after a bus crash went...
View ArticleHong Kong health minister Sophia Chan compares e-cigarettes to an epidemic as...
Hong Kong’s health minister likened the e-cigarette trend to an epidemic on Thursday, as she defended the government’s push to remove alternative cigarettes from the market, saying they posed new...
View ArticleHong Kong localist groups to again protest against one-way permit scheme,...
Localist groups are to hold their second protest in two weeks on Sunday against a controversial migrant scheme that allows 150 mainland Chinese per day to move to the city. They want the numbers...
View ArticleLuxury hotel Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong fined HK$15,000 for pumping grease-filled...
A luxury hotel boasting two Michelin-starred restaurants was fined on Thursday for discharging oily, greasy waste water into public sewers. The Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, inside the International Commerce...
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