Hong Kong’s hidden youth: societal pressure driving city’s young into apathy...
When she was 19, aspiring artist Tung shut herself inside her parents’ cramped, 350 sq ft flat in Tin Shui Wai, and did not emerge for a year.She wasn’t trapped. She wasn’t sick. She was just …...
View ArticleTwo injured in fire on yacht off the coast of Hong Kong Island
A yacht was completely engulfed in fire after bursting into flames off the west coast of Hong Kong Island on Saturday morning, injuring two people.Thick black smoke billowed from the burning 16-feet...
View ArticleLive pig imports to Hong Kong suspended after African swine fever case...
Mainland China has suspended the transport of all live pigs to Hong Kong, causing pork prices to soar by as much as 40 per cent on Saturday, after the city confirmed its first case of African swine...
View ArticleHPV vaccine patients, many from mainland China, head to AMH Medical...
Hundreds of patients, mostly from mainland China, who got HPV vaccines at a Hong Kong private clinic swamped the facility on Saturday to cry foul and demand a refund after it was claimed the doses...
View ArticleDeadly in pigs but harmless to humans, why is African swine fever such a...
Hong Kong has now joined mainland China in responding to the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF), a deadly disease that threatens the pig population but is not harmful to humans. On Friday, the...
View ArticleSlaughterhouse blockade called off as Hong Kong health officials and pork...
Hong Kong health officials have yielded to pork traders and agreed to explore ways of avoiding a mass pig cull in the event of future cases of African swine fever outbreaks, bringing to an end a...
View ArticleEight months on, Hong Kong’s Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground has still not...
In September last year, Typhoon Mangkhut wreaked havoc in Hong Kong, felling at least 46,000 trees, smashing hundreds of windows and leaving more than 1,000 roads blocked.Eight months since the most...
View ArticleAfrican swine fever: hopes that Hong Kong pork supplies will resume by...
Hong Kong launched its largest pig cull in more than 50 years on Monday in a drastic effort to prevent an outbreak of African swine fever, while pork traders were hopeful supplies of the staple meat...
View ArticleHong Kong’s new Extinction Rebellion chapter looks to turn up the heat on the...
A small yet passionate arm of the global climate-protection movement Extinction Rebellion has taken root in Hong Kong, calling on the government to reduce net carbon emissions to zero by 2025.The...
View ArticleGucci shop in Hong Kong’s Harbour City mall closes for disinfection after...
Three workers at a Gucci outlet in Hong Kong have fallen ill with measles in the past week, according to health officials.The outbreak of the highly infectious disease at the luxury fashion shop in the...
View ArticleOfficials in unprecedented move to protect Hong Kong’s heritage by creating...
A top adviser to the Hong Kong government on heritage issues has revealed how he is pressing for a new system to evaluate modern architecture as a number of familiar landmarks face demolition.Local...
View ArticleThe 1,400 unseen guardian angels helping to protect Hong Kong’s dementia...
Lau Chiu-kwong’s day job for almost the past three decades has been running a local shop at a public housing estate in Ngau Tau Kok, but he also juggles another role – being a “guardian angel” for...
View ArticleHow do you get access to your medical records? Hong Kong’s new pilot e-health...
Patients in Hong Kong will be able to access their own medical records and input health data with the trial run later this year of a new portal for the city’s electronic health record sharing...
View ArticleLawmakers endorse plan for HK$7.7 billion desalination plant in Hong Kong...
Hong Kong lawmakers have unanimously endorsed a HK$7.7 billion (US$987 million) plan for the government to build a desalination plant that will meet 5 per cent of the city’s demand for drinking...
View ArticleHong Kong pig farmers threaten to release their hogs at government...
Disgruntled pig farmers in Hong Kong have threatened to besiege government headquarters with their animals to pressure officials to take action against a privately owned slaughterhouse that has stopped...
View ArticleHong Kong health authorities find three new cases of rat hepatitis E...
Hong Kong has recorded three new cases of the rat hepatitis E infection in humans, health authorities have revealed, adding that one of the patients with an unspecified underlying illness had died.The...
View ArticleDengue fever is now like the flu, WHO chief says while urging countries to...
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) top man in the Western Pacific region has urged dengue fever endemic countries to consider using the world’s first vaccine to fight against the mosquito-borne...
View ArticleSweet potatoes for bait and one-door cages – why Hong Kong’s old-style pest...
Hong Kong’s pest control teams are unable to catch rodents because they use old-style trapping methods including sweet potatoes for bait, critics said on Wednesday, a day after three new cases of the...
View ArticleMedical blunder cost woman her spleen in operation at Hong Kong private hospital
A woman lost her spleen during a botched operation intended to remove a kidney at a Hong Kong private hospital.The 57-year-old woman underwent surgery performed by a visiting urologist at St Paul’s...
View ArticlePrivate abattoir remains closed despite angry calls by Hong Kong pig farmers...
A private abattoir in Hong Kong has stonewalled calls to open its doors to accept local hogs amid a case of African swine fever as pig farmers demanded the government step in and take tougher...
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