Red 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...
It may be time to kick the habit for vapers in Hong Kong as officials ready a law to choke the supply, sale and promotion of e-cigarettes, with a maximum penalty of six months’ imprisonment and a fine...
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...
View ArticleAllow 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 ArticleHundreds of Hong Kong protesters march to Kwong Wah Hospital, claiming city’s...
Hundreds of localist activists and their supporters marched to a Hong Kong public hospital on Sunday to show support for medical staff they said were overburdened by a flood of migrants from mainland...
View ArticleWill Hong Kong’s largest private recycling plant solve woes over plastic...
Hong Kong’s largest private plastics processing and recycling plant is expected to start taking in discarded drink bottles and turning them into safe materials that can be used with food products next...
View ArticleFur trade in Hong Kong: animal rights activists call on government to ban...
Animal rights activists called on the government to ban the fur trade in Hong Kong during an annual protest against the industry on Sunday afternoon. Around 90 protesters, who were joined by three...
View ArticleClunky washing machines and fridges form bulk of Hong Kong’s electrical waste...
Almost two out of every three items processed at the Hong Kong government’s dedicated recycling plant for waste electrical appliances are bulky washing machines or refrigerators – a trend considered as...
View ArticleLog cabins, zip lines and glamping among proposals for improving Hong Kong’s...
Campers may have to reserve a spot at public campsites in the future, according to new proposals aimed at enhancing Hong Kong’s country parks. The Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department...
View ArticleHong Kong should loosen restrictions on overseas doctors to ease staff...
The head of Hong Kong’s medical specialist training institution has proposed shortening the year-long internship for foreign-trained doctors working in the city, to ease staff shortages in public...
View ArticleWhy Hong Kong should accept e-cigarettes if it wants a smoke-free future
The Hong Kong government’s plan to remove e-cigarettes and other novel tobacco products from the market by prohibiting their sale, import and marketing is a regressive step in tobacco control. It is...
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