Ng Cho-nam, Hong Kong environmental crusader and government adviser, dies at 59
Ng Cho-nam, a prominent Hong Kong academic and a top government adviser on environmental issues, died on Friday. He was 59.Ng, a professor of geography at the University of Hong Kong, suffered a stroke...
View ArticleHong Kong, Guangdong and Macau include another air pollutant in regional...
Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau will include one more air pollutant in a regional monitoring network in a bid to cut smog levels.Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) will be covered by the Pearl River...
View ArticleHong Kong Academy of Medicine proposes training scheme for young overseas...
Hong Kong’s medical specialist training institution has proposed an early admission scheme for overseas doctors who want to complete the rest of their training in the city, in a bid to ease a manpower...
View ArticleHong Kong millennials want to retire earlier on lower savings, but their...
Hong Kong millennials are planning to retire earlier with lower savings compared with targets set by older folks, according to the results from a survey by JPMorgan Asset Management during the city’s...
View ArticleThink tank urges Hong Kong government to reconsider water import deal with...
The Hong Kong government should reconsider its water import deal with mainland China and reduce its reliance on it, according to a research report by a local think tank.Civic Exchange said the city...
View ArticleHong Kong’s major public hospitals add more than 1,300 beds as city braces...
Hong Kong’s public hospitals have started to feel the pressure ahead of the peak influenza season, with more than 1,300 extra beds deployed to meet the growing demand.Health officials revealed the...
View ArticleSocial media chat groups make for happier Hong Kong families, university...
Hong Kong families which communicate and interact on social media chat groups lead happier lives than those which do not, a survey has found.But researchers from the University of Hong Kong warned...
View ArticleFertility secrets of Okinawa give birth to hope in sexless, ageing Japan
A decade after she first gave birth, Nozomi Ishikawa has become a mother for the third time. But her joy at welcoming Baby Rana into the world is tinged with just one tiny regret: that, at 33, Ishikawa...
View ArticleFrom dementia to jobs, does Japan’s ageing society hold the secret to growing...
The story of Japan’s ageing population is often repeated like a tired old tale.“Ticking time bomb” and “demographic crisis” are the kind of phrases that usually feature as the country with the “world’s...
View ArticleHong Kong’s first ‘eco-shoreline’ in Tung Chung will allow people to get...
A land reclamation project in Tung Chung touted as Hong Kong’s first “eco-shoreline” will boost marine biodiversity and give people the chance to get close to nature, according to authorities.With...
View ArticleHong Kong waste collectors to get lion’s share of HK$2.8 million recycling...
A Hong Kong green group has launched a HK$2.8 million subsidy to encourage drink-carton recycling in the city, with frontline workers receiving the bulk of the benefits.Green Power, the firm running...
View ArticleWarm spell set to end as forecasters predict cold weather will return to Hong...
Hong Kong’s warm and sunny Christmas holidays are coming to an end, with the temperature forecast to drop to 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit) on Friday, with rain also expected this...
View ArticleGet wet, get well: Water therapy helps children with special needs relax,...
Six-year-old Lucas Mak Chun-wing used to be so afraid of water that even taking a shower could drive him hysterical.But two months of hydrotherapy at the Heep Hong Society in Pok Fu Lam has changed...
View ArticleCould better urban planning solve the loneliness epidemic sweeping through...
Alice Kwok is used to being alone, and lonely.But two years ago, when Jackson Kwok, her husband and partner of more than 50 years, died from lung cancer, the 83-year-old fell into a bout of...
View ArticleMystery ‘pneumonia’ hits China’s Wuhan city; 27 hospitalised with 7 in...
Health authorities are looking into nearly 30 cases of “unknown pneumonia” in central China’s Wuhan city on Tuesday.State television reported that a team of experts from the National Health Commission...
View ArticleChina shuts seafood market linked to mystery viral pneumonia outbreak
Chinese authorities shut a seafood market in the central city of Wuhan on Wednesday after workers were hospitalised with what is being termed an outbreak of viral pneumonia of unknown origin. Local...
View ArticleHong Kong woman hospitalised and quarantined after returning from site of...
A woman has been quarantined in a Hong Kong hospital after displaying symptoms of upper respiratory infection, following a trip to Wuhan where a mysterious outbreak of viral pneumonia has occurred.The...
View ArticleChina pneumonia outbreak raises spectre of Sars as number infected jumps to 44
Chinese health authorities should be on high alert for a possible new strain of pneumonia and learn from 2002’s deadly Sars epidemic, medical experts said after cases of a mystery outbreak almost...
View ArticleHong Kong activates ‘serious response level’ for infectious diseases as Wuhan...
Hong Kong launched a new response mechanism for infectious diseases on Saturday morning, setting it to “serious” level – the second in a three-tier scale – in response to the outbreak of an...
View ArticleInitiative to connect young and the elderly through music in Hong Kong shows...
Perched on a high stool with a double bass dwarfing her, Fung Lai-ling, 73, smoothly glides her bow back and forth across the massive instrument, the tune of the classic Christmas song Feliz Navidad...
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