Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority sues patient over unpaid HK$6 million bill she...
The operator of Hong Kong’s public hospitals has sued a patient in a bid to collect a bill of more than HK$6 million (US$769, 230) she has racked up since November 2015.In a writ filed to the High...
View ArticleHong Kong’s lowly paid elderly toilet cleaners suffer in silence (and stench)...
The trick to getting rid of the stench, toilet cleaner Mei says, is to use one part bleach to two parts water. Splashing the potent mix everywhere is the first thing she does when she starts work each...
View ArticleVegan pork in Hong Kong, impossible burgers in Singapore: how investors grew...
Hong Kong entrepreneur David Yeung is encouraging people to eat less meat to help save the earth. The trouble is, too many love their meat, especially pork.Now he thinks he has something that might...
View ArticleWhat you should know about Hong Kong’s country parks ... and are they under...
Hong Kong may be notorious for being one of the world’s most overpopulated cities, but some 40 per cent of its total land area of 1,108 sq km is actually designated as country parks. This figure,...
View ArticleA Hong Kong scuba diver’s one-woman mission to fight marine pollution through...
As the rain stops at noon and sunshine peeks out from behind the clouds, Hong Kong English tutor Kitti Chan Fung-ping calls two friends for an outing to a beach in Sai Kung. But they are not there to...
View ArticleArtist helps Hong Kong’s elderly revisit their youth by recreating past...
As a child who lived in the Kwun Tong Resettlement Area, one of Hong Kong’s oldest public housing communities, artist On Tai Yau-on, 39, counts many cherished memories from that time as...
View ArticleAsia’s vegetarian culture fuelled a global trend. But is going meatless good...
Anil Battinapati, 35, has been Hindu vegetarian for 32 years. The Hyderabad, India, resident might eat dosas with palli chutney for breakfast and rice with vegetable curry for lunch, and does so both...
View ArticleReview of medical cases handled by doctor caught taking cannabis while on...
A senior emergency ward doctor who was arrested for consuming cannabis on duty at a public hospital in Hong Kong did not incorrectly treat any of his patients, the Post has learned.According to a...
View ArticleChina’s institutions and banks need help from the world’s civil society to...
Activists of 12 countries conducted rallies in London, Hong Kong and Nairobi last week to protest financing by Bank of China to build the Batang Toru Dam in Indonesia’s North Sumatra, due to its...
View ArticlePublic hospitals’ staff shortage can be solved with ‘Hong Kong model’ rather...
Hong Kong need not rely on imported solutions to its hospital staffing crisis, and could develop its own recruitment system, such as by making special arrangements for graduates of certain universities...
View ArticleThis Hong Kong scientist wanted to discover new ocean species. He found 7,300
In 2011, Qian Peiyuan set out on a mission to measure the true biodiversity of microorganisms in the world’s oceans. What he discovered, in his words, could enhance the understanding of life and...
View ArticleProposed cap on how much Hong Kong’s elderly can spend on eye tests leaves...
Hong Kong health officials have proposed a HK$2,000 cap every two years on the value elderly residents can spend on optometric services using their medical care vouchers, drawing ire from the...
View ArticleFormer Hong Kong health chief slams medical voucher scheme for the elderly as...
A voucher scheme that gives elderly Hong Kong residents HK$2,000 a year to use for private health care has failed to ease overcrowding at public hospitals and has not been “cost effective”, the city’s...
View ArticleFormer Hong Kong health chief slams medical voucher scheme for the elderly as...
A voucher scheme that gives elderly Hong Kong residents HK$2,000 a year to use for private health care has failed to ease overcrowding at public hospitals and not been cost-effective, the city’s former...
View ArticleHong Kong’s public hospitals ‘did well’ during winter flu season despite...
Hong Kong’s overloaded public hospitals did well to weather this year’s winter flu season despite a serious staff shortage, the head of the government health care provider has said. Professor John...
View ArticleLeave eyeglasses out of medical voucher scheme for elderly rather than cap...
Hong Kong health authorities should exclude eyeglasses from the elderly health care voucher scheme instead of imposing a blanket spending cap on optometric services, a trade group representing the...
View ArticleOmbudsman slams health department for failing to investigate why one-third of...
More than 200,000 Hong Kong students – one-third of those enrolled in a HK$200 million health check scheme – failed to show up annually for their checks over the past seven years, but health officials...
View ArticleOverworked public doctors call for hospital red tape to be cut after meeting...
Doctors have urged Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to cut red tape and give individual public hospitals the power to decide how resources are best allocated.The demands were made in a...
View ArticleHong Kong is spending more money than ever on public services, but it must...
The Hong Kong government’s public expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic product averaged 15.7 per cent during the last 12 financial years of the colonial government. It increased to 18.16 per...
View ArticleExpensive drug to treat rare genetic disease tuberous sclerosis complex to be...
A drug costing HK$230,000 per patient that can treat a rare genetic disease is to be made available at public hospitals across Hong Kong – but prescription restrictions mean few will benefit.Rebecca...
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