Canned fish in Hong Kong found with various levels of metallic contaminants,...
Some samples of canned fish in Hong Kong were found with various levels of metallic contaminants which could pose health risks if eaten excessively, according to the city’s consumer watchdog.The...
View ArticleCoronavirus: HKU school head chides former worker for tarring reputation of...
The head of a medical school at Hong Kong’s top university has chastised a former employee for harming the reputation of her ex-colleagues when she accused them on American television of engaging in a...
View ArticleUnlinked coronavirus cases haunt Asian governments as they seek to reopen
As countries across Asia-Pacific struggle with resurgences of the coronavirus, one data point is steering government responses: the share of cases with no clear indication of how infection occurred....
View ArticleCoronavirus: Hong Kong police arrest two suspected triad members in...
Two suspected triad members have been arrested in connection with an attack on a McDonald’s manager over one’s refusal to put on a mask, police said on Thursday.The men, believed to be members of Wo...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: Covid-19 infections soar to record high of 67, more...
Coronavirus infections in Hong Kong hit an all-time daily high of 67 cases on Thursday, more than half of them untraceable, as the government weighed ordering civil servants to work from home amid...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: taxi drivers to receive free coronavirus tests
Hong Kong’s taxi drivers are being offered free testing for Covid-19 as part of the government’s effort to screen groups of workers and residents deemed at high risk of contracting the disease.Under...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: mainland China tightens entry requirements for...
Hongkongers must prove they have tested negative for Covid-19 to cross the border into Guangdong from Friday as the mainland Chinese province tightened its entry requirements in response to the city’s...
View ArticleUnexploded World War II bomb defused by Hong Kong police
An unexploded wartime bomb weighing about 100lbs that could have “caused serious damage” was defused by Hong Kong police on Friday.The device, which was found in a construction site near Kai Tak MTR...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave takes worrying toll on elderly as 71-year-old patient...
Hong Kong’s third wave of Covid-19 is taking a worrying toll on senior citizens, with the death of a 71-year-old patient who tested positive and a potential new cluster emerging at a second care home...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: union urges government to allow civil servants to work...
Hong Kong’s civil servants have urged the government to allow them to work from home, as more staff fall ill amid a third wave of coronavirus infections.The Civil Service Bureau said on Thursday...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: as city’s hospitals overflow, officials eye transfer of...
Community facilities in Hong Kong will be used to treat Covid-19 patients in stable condition as early as this month in a bid to ease the burden at overflowing public hospitals as the city battles its...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: infection of three health workers at Tuen Mun Eye...
Three health workers in contact with hundreds of Hongkongers were among 64 new coronavirus cases confirmed on Saturday, sparking fears of a major outbreak at an eye clinic as the number of Covid-19...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: AsiaWorld-Expo earmarked as next holding facility for...
An exhibition venue near Hong Kong International Airport could be the next holding facility for stable Covid-19 patients to ease the burden on public hospitals, health authorities in the city said on...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: Carrie Lam steps up fight against coronavirus, with...
Key points:Wearing a mask to become mandatory in indoor public places such as shopping centresCivil servants to work from home for a week from Monday. Only emergency and essential public services will...
View ArticleCoronavirus: South China Morning Post employee tests positive, Times Square...
A South China Morning Post editorial staff member has tested positive for Covid-19, with the company’s Causeway Bay headquarters closed from Saturday for thorough cleaning.The infected employee last...
View ArticleHong Kong cleaners, green groups despair as pandemic trash piles up with...
Cleaning worker Fung Lan-ying has been working a lot harder since the pandemic began, collecting garbage from a block of public flats at a housing estate in Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin.She used to gather...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: authorities weigh lockdown after 73 new Covid-19 cases...
Hong Kong will have to impose a lockdown if the resurging number of coronavirus infections keeps rising, health authorities have warned, after 73 cases emerged on Monday following a record high at the...
View ArticleHSBC, Standard Chartered among 11 banks to curtail opening hours, close 59...
HSBC, Standard Chartered and Bank of East Asia are among 11 banks changing their operating hours and closing some of their branches as a third wave of Covid-19 forces Hong Kong to take containment...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: kindergarten, international school terms will not start...
Many of Hong Kong’s international schools and kindergartens, some just weeks away from reopening, would see the start of their new school year delayed amid the city’s third wave of Covid-19 infections,...
View ArticleHong Kong third wave: no symptoms or link to confirmed Covid-19 case? Getting...
Hong Kong residents without symptoms or links to confirmed Covid-19 cases should not head to hospitals for testing, a city health official said on Monday, saying it would only serve to strain an...
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