Hong Kong protests leaving journalists, property management staff with higher...
Months of protests and escalating violence in Hong Kong have taken a toll on the mental health of journalists, property management staff and the wider public, according to a new study.The survey of 784...
View ArticleChina pneumonia: Hong Kong authorities take low-key approach to passengers...
The monitoring of rail passengers arriving in Hong Kong from a mainland Chinese city affected by the outbreak of an unidentified form of pneumonia appeared lax on Saturday, despite health officials...
View ArticleHong Kong shaken awake as 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattles city
More than 1,200 people in Hong Kong felt vibrations after a magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near the coast of Southeastern China early on Sunday morning, waking some people from their sleep.The Hong...
View ArticleSeven more Hong Kong patients taken to hospital over Wuhan pneumonia fears as...
Seven more patients have been identified with fever and respiratory symptoms after returning to Hong Kong from Wuhan, including a two-year-old girl, health officials said on Sunday.A wet market in the...
View ArticleBees sting group of about 10 on popular trail in Hong Kong’s Pat Sin Leng...
About 10 hikers were stung by a swarm of bees along a popular trail in Hong Kong’s countryside on Sunday, with at least seven of them sent to hospital for treatment.The incident took place at around...
View ArticleWe can all do our bit to save the planet, giving up meat is a good place to...
The start of a new decade is the perfect time to make some real changes to better our lives, the communities we live in, and maybe even the world.First, we have to recognise that over the past decade...
View ArticleAfter Hong Kong protests devastation, Chinese University returns for new term...
Students and staff returned to protest-stricken Chinese University for the new term on Monday wearing masks amid a pneumonia scare that has left one of its students in hospital with suspected symptoms...
View ArticleHong Kong to add mystery Wuhan pneumonia to list of notifiable infectious...
Medical practitioners in Hong Kong must notify the government of anyone suspected to have been infected with the mystery Wuhan pneumonia under a change expected to be in place this week which also...
View ArticleSupplies of N95 mask running low in Hong Kong as Wuhan virus scare sparks...
Supplies of a mask widely used during the 2003 Sars outbreak in Hong Kong are running low amid the mystery pneumonia scare in the city, with some retailers doubling prices of limited stocks.At least...
View ArticleWuhan pneumonia: Hong Kong doctors will have to tell authorities about any...
Health officials are stepping up measures against the mystery pneumonia outbreak in central China by making it compulsory for doctors to notify authorities about any suspected cases from Wednesday, and...
View ArticleChina ‘pneumonia’: Hong Kong Polytechnic University reports student has fever...
A third education institution in Hong Kong has reported that a student has symptoms of an unidentified, pneumonia-like virus from central China.Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) said the female...
View ArticleWuhan pneumonia: what we know about the new virus and how you can stop...
The outbreak of a mysterious viral pneumonia in Wuhan, a central Chinese city, has become the latest challenge for the health authorities in mainland China.In Hong Kong it put the city on alert as it...
View ArticleWuhan coronavirus: Asia battens down for Lunar New Year rush
Just two weeks before tens of millions of Chinese travellers hit the road for Lunar New Year, health officials across Asia are scrambling to prevent the spread of a viral pneumonia outbreak in central...
View ArticleHong Kong enters winter peak flu season with 23 outbreaks in schools or...
Hong Kong has entered the winter peak flu season, according to health authorities who say there have been 23 outbreaks reported so far in schools or public facilities this week, nearly six times the...
View ArticleWuhan pneumonia: Hong Kong requests for genetic information from mainland...
Hong Kong has requested that mainland China provide genetic information on the mystery virus behind the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak, for local experts to devise more targeted tests to identify...
View ArticleHong Kong protests: mental health issues rise drastically with more than 2...
More than 2 million, or almost one in three, Hong Kong adults have shown symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder during the prolonged civil unrest in the city, a study published in a leading medical...
View ArticleWuhan pneumonia: six more cases in Hong Kong take total to more than 50 but...
Six more people have been admitted to hospitals in Hong Kong after developing respiratory symptoms on their return from the mainland Chinese city of Wuhan, health authorities said on Friday.It brought...
View ArticlePoor in Hong Kong: life is hardest for the elderly, jobless and single-parent...
Staying at home to take care of her autistic son, Liu says her family of four survives on her husband’s unstable income of HK$10,000 a month from part-time work.That is less than half of the HK$21,000...
View ArticleRecent earthquakes in Hong Kong ‘not a signal of more, or worse, to come’
Some people awoke from their sleep and more than 1,200 felt vibrations when a magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near the coast of Hong Kong early at 6.55am last Sunday.It was the second tremor in a...
View ArticleWuhan pneumonia: new strain ‘bears close similarity to Sars’ as Hong Kong...
A new strain of pneumonia that claimed its first fatality in mainland China on Saturday has been revealed as a Sars-like coronavirus, with close to 80 per cent similarity to the widespread global...
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