Allow specialist doctors trained overseas to practise in Hong Kong to ease...
Specialist doctors trained at top overseas medical schools should be allowed to work in Hong Kong without examination if they have parents from the city, a former chairman of the Hospital Authority has...
View ArticleDoctor who wrongly filled balloon with gas before it burst inside Hong Kong...
A doctor who wrongly filled a balloon with gas before inserting it into an octogenarian patient’s anus, causing the balloon to burst and injure her rectum, may have done so because of the busy and...
View ArticleE-cigarettes, facing Hong Kong ban: a healthy way to quit tobacco or a risk...
Vaping could soon be all but banned in Hong Kong. Under a change to the law set to face its first reading at the Legislative Council next Wednesday, anyone who imports, makes, sells or promotes new...
View ArticlePlogging – the new Swedish fitness trend that combines exercise with...
After a day in the classroom, Hong Kong teacher James Marlow puts on his running gear and grabs a bin bag and goes plogging – a new fitness trend that is an eco-friendly way to exercise. “The great...
View ArticleJapanese soccer player Yuto Nakamura hopes to bring his adopted city Hong...
Kitchee striker Yuto Nakamura considers himself a Hongkonger, and has the SAR passport to prove it; last October, he gave up his Japanese citizenship to take Chinese nationality in Hong Kong. As a...
View ArticleHong Kong start-up dishes up a smart alternative to disposable tableware for...
The long night begins for Lee Wing-shan just when the grand banquet comes to an end. For more than six months, the 28-year-old has been spending most weekend nights alone, washing dozens of dishes in a...
View ArticleHong Kong hiker on Devil’s Peak dies after complaining about feeling unwell,...
A hiker on Devil’s Peak in Kowloon, Hong Kong, died after complaining about feeling unwell as unusually warm winter weather hit the city on Saturday. The man, surnamed Chan and aged 45, called police...
View ArticleOvercrowding in Hong Kong hospitals prompts authority boss to suggest sending...
The head of the Hospital Authority has suggested putting patients into rehabilitation wards and centres, as a way of coping with the dire overcrowding in Hong Kong’s public hospitals. But Dr John Leong...
View Article‘Rampant bullying’ among Hong Kong public hospital staff adds to tensions in...
Staff members of Hong Kong’s public hospitals are calling on authorities to set up policies against “rampant” workplace bullying, with 82 medical workers seeking a union’s help over the past two years....
View ArticleWildlife smugglers still at large after Hong Kong’s biggest ivory seizure in...
Investigations into Hong Kong’s largest ivory seizure in 30 years have failed to produce a single prosecution, meaning the syndicate behind the smuggling operation is still at large, the customs...
View ArticlePeople shouldn’t need a nudge to recycle plastic. But if financial incentives...
Last week, Watsons Water announced it would introduce 400 reverse vending machines for water bottles throughout Hong Kong. The machines, which can collect up to 1,000 bottles, are intended to give...
View ArticlePublic backs new waste charge in Hong Kong, but split remains over how much...
About seven out of 10 Hongkongers agree a new scheme to charge for waste could help reduce domestic rubbish although residents remain split over how much they should pay, according to a poll released...
View ArticleTwo-year-old boy dies from flu in Hong Kong, the first young death of city’s...
A two-year-old boy has died from flu in Hong Kong – the first child fatality of this year’s winter influenza season. A Tuen Mun Hospital spokesman said the boy was admitted to its paediatric intensive...
View ArticleEmergency flu funds of HK$500 million headed to Hong Kong hospitals for...
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s government is injecting HK$500 million (US$63 million) into Hong Kong’s overwhelmed public health care sector as it struggles to cope with a rush of flu...
View ArticleEligibility rules for Hong Kong’s electric car trade-in scheme should be...
Hong Kong motorists have called on the government to scrap eligibility rules for a HK$250,000 tax break when they trade in a petrol car for an electric one, saying there are easy ways around them...
View ArticleWhy energy-efficient buildings should lead Hong Kong’s quest to reduce carbon...
Hong Kong’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases should be centred on energy-efficient buildings as the power sector will play a smaller role in cutting emissions in about a decade. The Business...
View ArticleHong Kong tumbles down liveability rankings as pollution, typhoons, flu, and...
Hong Kong has become increasingly unliveable for Asian expats according to a report by an international human resources consultancy, with the city falling 12 places in the rankings to 41 this year –...
View ArticleHong Kong hospital support staff protest against labour shortages in wards...
Support staff at public hospitals who do orderly work, such as changing diapers and washing patients, staged a protest on Wednesday decrying insufficient workers to handle the heavy workload during...
View ArticleHong Kong authorities set to ramp up fight against air pollution from ships...
Hong Kong environmental inspectors will take to the skies to police the city’s waters with drones to help enforce a new law requiring ships to burn cleaner marine fuels. The sensor-equipped drones...
View ArticleNew year but no new resolutions when it comes to plastic waste as Hongkongers...
A pilot government campaign to cut plastic waste at fast-food stalls at Lunar New Year fairs has failed to capture the public’s imagination, an environmental group has found. According to Greenpeace,...
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