Thunder and downpours in Hong Kong as Observatory issues first-ever February...
Hong Kong on Tuesday woke to thunder and downpours heavy enough to warrant the first rainstorm alert of 2019 – the second earliest ever issued in a calendar year. The Observatory issued the amber...
View ArticleShenzhen’s billion-yuan offer to Chinese University of Hong Kong for new...
Shenzhen officials have offered to give Chinese University of Hong Kong billions of yuan to set up a medicine faculty and teaching hospital on the mainland, the Post has learned. But the project, which...
View ArticleHong Kong landfill redevelopment scheme hits setback as NGO pulls out
A government scheme to redevelop Hong Kong’s closed landfills into spaces for recreational use by paying welfare groups to carry out the work has suffered another blow. Christian Family Service Centre...
View ArticleHospital transfer service would be for Hongkongers only, Carrie Lam says in...
Hong Kong’s leader on Wednesday moved to allay fears that overloaded public hospitals could be further burdened by a scheme to transfer patients from mainland facilities, saying only city residents...
View ArticleGreener, smarter (and cleaner) public toilets: budget spares no expense for a...
From a major public toilet makeover and longer waterfront promenades to better care for trees – the Hong Kong budget unveiled on Wednesday showed nothing is too trivial for public resources when it...
View ArticleAiling public health care sector gets HK$80.6 billion shot in the arm from...
Hong Kong’s overloaded health sector emerged as one of the biggest winners in Wednesday’s budget, receiving morale-boosting measures worth a total of HK$80.6 billion (US$10.3 billion) in recurrent...
View ArticleHong Kong nurse killed and her friend severely injured in crash while on...
A nurse from a Hong Kong public hospital has been killed and her work colleague critically injured in a traffic accident during a holiday in the Middle East.A vehicle carrying the two female registered...
View ArticlePhilippines has Mangkhut struck off typhoon names list
What’s in a name? Bad memories when it comes to typhoons, according to international meteorological experts.A committee of storm specialists this week endorsed a proposal by the Philippines to remove...
View ArticleHong Kong man dies after passing out on hike in Ma On Shan Country Park
A Hong Kong man died on Friday after he passed out while hiking in a country park in Hong Kong on Friday.Rescuers airlifted the 66-year-old to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan, but...
View ArticleReview system and cut through red tape, Hong Kong minister urges Hospital...
Hong Kong’s health minister has urged the Hospital Authority to review its system after the body was accused of red tape that increased the burden on overworked medical staff.Secretary for Food and...
View ArticleHottest winter on record for Hong Kong, with average temperature of 19.1...
It’s official: Hong Kong has just been through its warmest winter on record.The Observatory said the average temperature between December and February was 19.1 degrees Celsius, the highest since...
View ArticleSort your rubbish properly, Hong Kong’s glass recyclers tell residents amid...
The stench of stale liquor lingers in the air at a dusty recycling yard in Hong Kong’s Lung Kwu Tan in the New Territories. Tonnes of waste glass are being pulverised into grains of sand by...
View ArticleWomen urged to get whooping cough vaccine during each pregnancy as Hong Kong...
Doctors and hospitals were reminded on Monday that mothers-to-be should get one dose of a whooping cough vaccine during each pregnancy as part of their routine antenatal care to provide direct...
View ArticleUnion warns of industrial action if support staff at Hong Kong’s public...
Some 10,000 health care support staff at public hospitals in Hong Kong could go on strike if they do not get a pay rise of at least 12 per cent at all levels, a union leader has warned.The demand came...
View ArticleHong Kong’s air quality goals for 2025 cleared by environment advisory group,...
An environmental advisory group has raised no objection to proposed revisions to the Hong Kong government’s five-year air quality goals, even as officials dismissed calls to tighten targets for two...
View ArticleHealth care support staff in Hong Kong’s public hospitals to stage sit-in...
Public hospital support staff in Hong Kong will stage a sit-in on Thursday after they failed to reach a consensus with management on pay rises.The action was announced on Tuesday after a meeting...
View ArticleHong Kong public hospital support staff put protest on hold after management...
A protest planned by support staff at Hong Kong’s public hospitals was put on hold on Wednesday after health care officials improved their pay rise proposal.The move to suspend the sit-in scheduled for...
View ArticleConservationist Lew Young, who helped set up Hong Kong’s only Ramsar...
Hong Kong conservationist Lew Young, who played an instrumental role in setting up the city’s first and only Ramsar protected wetland site in Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay, died earlier this week. He was...
View ArticleHong Kong man had brain tumour – but doctors at Kwong Wah Hospital forgot to...
A Hong Kong man has lost the ability to care for himself after Kwong Wah Hospital failed to tell him of a brain tumour discovered in a scan – a blunder which delayed his treatment by 19 months.Lee...
View ArticleHong Kong optometrists hit out against proposed cap for health voucher scheme...
A group of Hong Kong optometrists have hit out at the government over a proposed cap on health vouchers the elderly can use for private optical services, calling the new policy discriminatory.Under a...
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