Hong Kong family of four may be forced on to street if they have to leave...
A dilapidated and stuffy 200-square-foot rooftop slum is not the best environment for a family of four, but for Tsui, his wife and two daughters that is a luxury they might lose by the end of the year...
View ArticleTop Hong Kong liver transplant expert to head HKU hospital in Shenzhen
Top liver transplant expert Professor Lo Chung-mau has been appointed to head the University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen hospital from next month. The university confirmed the move on Monday after news of...
View ArticlePlans for expanded living space and scenic areas in Hong Kong’s post-2030...
Planning advisers on Hong Kong’s latest long-term development blueprint have suggested the government expand the city’s urbanised areas by no more than 5 per cent to provide an extra 5,500 hectares of...
View ArticleNew Hong Kong hospital to offer fixed-price packages upon opening in early 2017
A new private hospital in Aberdeen will launch fixed-price packages for 50 medical procedureswhen it opens early next year. The 500-bed Gleneagles Hospital will be the first in the city to offer such...
View ArticleDistrict council votes against suspending controversial Wang Chau housing...
Yuen Long district council on Tuesday voted against suspending the Wang Chau building project, which the government controversially dropped two phases of after meetings with rural leaders. But the...
View ArticleCall for animal rescue groups to take in dogs displaced by Anderson Road...
Only a dozen out of about 80 stray dogs rounded up in the Anderson Road Quarry area will likely escape euthanasia as the Lands Department takes over the place by the end of this month, according to...
View ArticleInside government’s plans to get Hong Kong walking with pedestrian-zoned town...
Pedestrians should be the winners in future with the government planning to build multi-function public plazas providing street-level shopping and leisure parks in new towns, the city’s chief planner...
View ArticleHong Kong households willing to spend extra HK$100 monthly to go green, study...
Hongkongers are willing to pay about HK$100 extra per month on average to upgrade their appliances to eco-friendly ones in order to reduce household carbon emission, a study has found. City University...
View ArticleHong Kong food products with healthy sugar or salt levels to be labelled for...
About 100 types of pre-packaged food such as yoghurt and biscuits are likely to come under a labelling scheme that identifies products with lower salt and sugar content. Bernard Chan, chairman of the...
View ArticlePublic opposition will block land shortfall solution for development...
Public opposition will make it “extremely difficult” for the government to meet a shortfall of 1,200 hectares required for housing and economic development beyond 2030, despite two potential areas...
View ArticleHong Kong government’s plan for new towns and reclaimed islands to house...
Hong Kong will need to find – or reclaim – at least 1,200 hectares of extra land to house its growing population and stimulate the economy after 2030, according to the government’s latest long-term...
View ArticleMonsoon to bring cool weather and stronger winds to Hong Kong
Hongkongers can look forward to some cooler weather in the next few days, after a summer that saw record highs. According to the Hong Kong Observatory, temperatures will drop from between 24 and 31...
View ArticleHow a bipolar sufferer came down to earth after a flight of fantasy
On a skiing trip in France, Sadie Kaye experienced a surge of confidence. Believing herself to be an expert skier, she decided to take on the steepest slope on the mountain range. Yet as she began her...
View ArticleHong Kong government urged to take control over notorious nursing home
Lawmakers have called on the government to take over operations of a scandal-hit nursing home for the mentally disabled, after the relocation of residents to new facilities resulted in a series of...
View ArticleCut back on the tissue: Hong Kong trio hopes handkerchiefs made from leftover...
A Hong Kong trio is hoping to wipe away two waste problems in one go – with the handkerchief. In order to reduce the amount of tissue paper Hongkongers use, the Chief Project sources leftover fabric...
View ArticleHong Kong needs to build up surplus in land bank, minister says in rebuff to...
Development minister Paul Chan Mo-po denied that a long-term plan to accumulate more land than the city required would lead to too much expansion, saying a larger land bank could provide flexibility in...
View ArticleUniversity of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen hospital set for pricing revamp
The financially troubled hospital in Shenzhen run by the University of Hong Kong is set for an overhaul of its pricing policy by offering more treatment packages, the newly appointed hospital chief...
View ArticleHong Kong team wins silver medal at ‘Bionic Olympics’ with innovative...
An electric wheelchair that can scale stairs while facing forwards has helped disabled wheelchair user Ng Cho Yu win silver in the inaugural Cybathlon, the world’s first Olympics for bionic athletes. A...
View ArticleSeven out of 10 Hongkongers think the city has become a worse place in which...
Seven out of 10 Hongkongers think the city has become a worse place to live and over 40 per cent say they would leave given the chance, according to a survey released on Monday. The survey of 1,500...
View ArticleLast month was Hong Kong’s warmest October on record
Hong Kong’s warmest October since records began in 1884, with a mean temperature of 26.8 degrees Celsius, could soon be followed by one of its hottest Lidong Festivals. According to Hong Kong...
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