Hongkong Post to increase manpower and offer night deliveries to cope with...
Hong Kong’s official postal service provider will increase manpower and offer night deliveries from Wednesday to cope with a surge in parcels of masks and protective gear amid the coronavirus...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong restaurants install physical barriers between diners...
Restaurants in Hong Kong are segregating diners with physical barriers in an attempt to minimise the risk of contagion and boost consumer confidence as the coronavirus outbreak hammers the...
View ArticleCoronavirus in your toilet? How a Hong Kong policy change on pipes may have...
A Housing Department policy change has allowed tenants in government flats to alter the pipe design in their bathrooms since 2016, a problem which might have helped the faster spread of the deadly new...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong reliving Sars nightmare as outbreak spreads
Tuesday’s evacuation of residents from a Tsing Yi housing estate, after two of them contracted the deadly coronavirus, has awakened memories of one of Hong Kong’s darkest chapters.Health officials...
View ArticleCoronavirus: social welfare staff at evacuated Hong Kong housing block test...
Six staff from a social welfare office in the Hong Kong housing block evacuated after a pair of coronavirus confirmations have tested negative after being sent to hospital with flu symptoms.The six...
View ArticleAbout 100 people protest in Hong Kong over plan to use Fo Tan public housing...
A group of about 100 people in Hong Kong launched a protest on Wednesday against a government plan to use a public housing estate in Sha Tin as a quarantine centre amid the coronavirus outbreak, now...
View ArticleCoronavirus: US cites Sars and ‘ongoing uncertainty’ as reasons for letting...
The United States has pointed to precedent to explain why it decided to allow non-essential staff at its Hong Kong consulate to leave the city amid the coronavirus outbreak, even as other diplomatic...
View ArticleCoronavirus: masks to spare? Here’s how to help those most in need in Hong Kong
The coronavirus outbreak has turned masks into a valuable commodity globally, but if you are fortunate enough to have spare ones, there are many people in Hong Kong who desperately need some.Charities...
View ArticleCoronavirus: 10 Hongkongers stranded on Diamond Princess cruise ship...
Ten Hong Kong passengers stranded aboard a quarantined cruise ship docked off Japan’s coast have contracted the deadly coronavirus, the government revealed on Thursday, as the number of confirmed cases...
View ArticleCoronavirus: use cruise ship, Disneyland hotels to quarantine Hongkongers...
Hongkongers stranded in Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, should be brought back to the city and quarantined on a cruise ship or at Disneyland hotels to minimise resistance in...
View ArticleCoronavirus: from quarantine to class disruption, uncertainty has Hong Kong’s...
Students who cross the border to study in Hong Kong are stuck in limbo, they say, plagued by uncertainty over a timeline for the resumption of classes and the possible deferment of major exams amid the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: pathogens linger in toilet for hours if you flush without...
A toilet flush can release up to 80,000 polluted droplets and leave them suspended a metre in the air for hours if the lid is left up, a new study has found.The findings, released by City University’s...
View ArticleCoronavirus: four thousand low-income families have to wait longer to get...
Four thousand low-income families in Hong Kong who have been assured flats in a public housing estate will have to wait longer, as the residential units allocated to them have been chosen as the city’s...
View ArticleCoronavirus: cleaners sent to collect rubbish from quarantined Hongkongers...
Cleaners in Hong Kong have been sent to collect rubbish at the homes of those quarantined from the deadly coronavirus with inadequate protection, a government union has said.The Food and Environmental...
View ArticleHong Kong Observatory chief Shun Chi-ming retires from weather forecaster...
The outgoing chief of Hong Kong’s official weather forecaster is set to take up a new position at a Swiss-based UN agency, while continuing to stress the importance of science-based policymaking in the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: new mask guidelines rankle union as Hospital Authority urges...
Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has issued new guidelines on mask usage amid the citywide shortage, citing Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) standards in encouraging staff to change...
View ArticleApproaching cold front to bring mercury down in Hong Kong next week
An approaching cold front will bring the mercury down in the coming few days to as low as 10 degrees Celsius, the Hong Kong Observatory forecast on Thursday.It will remain rainy on Friday morning under...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Restaurant group temporarily closes hotpot chains as Hongkongers...
A Hong Kong-listed restaurant group has suspended business at all 16 of its hotpot restaurants – about 40 per cent of its eateries – as fears about the communal dining experience spread following a...
View ArticleThe Hong Kong hospital founder who raced to Wuhan coronavirus epicentre...
As Wuhan residents were fleeing the city in droves ahead of a lockdown in January, one Hongkonger made a beeline to ground zero of the coronavirus outbreak – to visit a hospital.Businessman Tse...
View ArticleCheers amid the coronavirus gloom: Hong Kong train fans flock to phase-one...
Rail enthusiasts found reason to celebrate on Friday amid a coronavirus outbreak gripping Hong Kong, cheering and popping champagne at the opening of the first part of the city’s most expensive railway...
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