Officials say Hong Kong’s new government health insurance scheme on the right...
Nearly 90 per cent of policies bought under Hong Kong’s first government-backed health insurance scheme involved more affordable care options, officials have said, suggesting some early adopters might...
View ArticleHow traditional Chinese medicine is helping to fight Covid-19
[Sponsored article]China’s civilisation, which spans more than 5,000 years, features a rich medical history. In the late 1500s the Chinese medical scholar Li Shizhen compiled the Compendium of Materia...
View ArticleHong Kong to add Britain to high-risk coronavirus list, all travellers from...
Hong Kong is adding Britain to its list of countries where people are considered at high risk of getting Covid-19, a source said.The move takes effect from October 1, and came as Hong Kong was...
View ArticleHong Kong facing just two local Covid-19 cases, source says, making it first...
Hong Kong was expecting two new local Covid-19 cases on Friday, a source said, the first time in three weeks the city has not had an imported infection.According to the source, the two cases both had...
View ArticleLand near Hong Kong gun club badly contaminated with toxic heavy metals,...
Soil samples taken near a Hong Kong gun club were found to contain toxic heavy metals including lead, arsenic and antimony that were as much as 400 times over acceptable levels, a green group said on...
View ArticleHong Kong marks first day with no local Covid-19 cases since September 15, as...
Hong Kong marked its first day without a local Covid-19 infection since September 15 on Saturday, recording just one imported case, as the city’s welfare chief offered praise for a wage subsidy scheme...
View ArticleSmall tornado spotted at Hong Kong airport in rare occurrence for the city,...
A low-intensity tornado that lasted some 20 minutes was spotted at Hong Kong International Airport on Friday, the first time the weather phenomenon has been observed in the city in 15 years.The Hong...
View ArticleHong Kong health officials investigating after 24 staff at rehabilitation...
Hong Kong health authorities are investigating an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis involving 24 staff members at a rehabilitation complex in Wong Chuk Hang.The employees, aged between 29 and 64, are...
View ArticleSix new coronavirus cases expected for Hong Kong, a day after only one...
Hong Kong is expecting six new coronavirus infections on Sunday, with the figure from a medical source coming a day after the city recorded only one imported case.Earlier this week, Chief Executive...
View Article‘We did our part for Hong Kong’: families count down to moving into new homes...
Housewife L.N. Siu, her husband and daughter were ecstatic when they were finally allocated a public housing flat at Chun Yeung Estate in Hong Kong last December, after waiting eight years.Then the...
View ArticleTreating elderly patients means looking after their carers too, award-winning...
An award-winning geriatrician has said communication, patience and learning from the past were key to his success in steering a Hong Kong hospital through the Covid-19 pandemic.And when it comes to...
View ArticleRecycling in Hong Kong takes another hit as plan for waste paper processing...
A plan for a recycling and manufacturing plant to process up to a third of Hong Kong’s waste paper is unlikely to happen, with the government now considering building a pulping facility instead,...
View ArticleHong Kong unlikely to relax social-distancing rule over numbers of people who...
Hong Kong is unlikely to increase the limit on public gatherings from four people, a government health adviser said on Monday, despite the city’s leader declaring that the third wave of the coronavirus...
View ArticleHong Kong Covid-19 testing explained: was it a success?
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View ArticleNearly a third of Hong Kong’s beef comes from deforested areas of Amazon...
Hong Kong’s supermarkets and businesses should stop selling imported beef from Brazilian ranches located in deforested areas of the Amazon rainforest, an environmental NGO has said after finding nearly...
View ArticleReligious gatherings, sports activities allowed from Friday as Hong Kong...
Most social-distancing measures in Hong Kong will remain in place for the coming week, but authorities will lift the ban on religious gatherings and team sports, with the city reporting no locally...
View ArticleHong Kong care home evacuated after resident’s positive Covid-19 test, while...
Hong Kong was expected to record nine new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, according to a medical source, after dozens of residents in a care home for the elderly were evacuated late on Tuesday.Health care...
View ArticleHong Kong authorities in restaurant and bar clampdown, as city faces 12 new...
Hong Kong was expected to record 12 new Covid-19 cases on Thursday, according to a medical source, as authorities clamped down on restaurants breaking social-distancing measures.Health officials...
View ArticleFears for Hong Kong butterfly haven after land stripped of greenery
A green group has urged the Hong Kong government to rezone a butterfly hotspot in Tai Po and raise its conservation status after the site was vandalised in late August.Volunteers working with...
View ArticleHong Kong facing eight new Covid-19 cases as it heads into holiday weekend,...
Hong Kong is expected to record eight new Covid-19 cases on Friday, a source said.As of Thursday, the city’s official tally of confirmed cases stood at 5,097, with 105 related deaths.Despite a...
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