Government subsidised dental scheme for Hong Kong’s over 75s gets the go ahead
Some 24,600 more senior citizens will benefit from government subsidised dental care under a Community Care Fund scheme approved by the Commission on Poverty on Wednesday, which lowered the age of...
View ArticleHong Kong consumers warned to stay away from mooncakes with high sugar, fat...
Consumers have been warned to exercise caution when buying mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival and to choose those with low levels of sugar, fat and sodium.
View ArticleHong Kong issues travel warning for Singapore on Zika virus fears
Hong Kong authorities issued an amber travel warning alert for Singapore yesterday over the country’s Zika virus situation with the number of cases confirmed to be locally transmitted in the island...
View ArticleTyphoons in South China Sea make for wetter, gloomier August in Hong Kong
The city experienced a wetter-than-usual August, thanks to a number of typhoons in the South China Sea and the western North Pacific, statistics from the Hong Kong Observatory showed on Friday.
View ArticleHong Kong health chief defends decision to issue Zika-related travel alert...
Hong Kong authorities decided to issue a travel alert for Singapore because people from
View ArticleUniversity of Hong Kong’s medicine department ‘sorry’ for patient data breach
Hong Kong’s top medical school has expressed its “deepest apologies” after a laptop computer containing the personal data of more than 3,600 patients was suspected to have been stolen, causing a...
View ArticleHong Kong pilots say government trailing the rest of the world on air...
Senior Hong Kong pilots are at loggerheads with the government over how accidents during flights should be investigated.
View ArticleNo travel warning for Zika-hit Malaysia yet, Hong Kong health minister says
Hong Kong will monitor the Zika virus situation in Malaysia, which recorded its first locally transmitted case o
View ArticleGerman carmakers look to muscle in on Tesla’s dominance of Hong Kong’s...
German carmakers are looking to take a bigger bite out of the electric vehicle industry in Hong Kong – one of the fastest growing markets for manufacturers but which is currently dominated by one player.
View ArticleEnvironment experts slam Hong Kong’s Airport Authority over coral...
The Airport Authority has come under fire again – this time from government environmental advisers – over plans to translocate just 5 per cent of rare and slow-growing coral colonies found near the...
View ArticleAppointment of another bureaucrat to top Hong Kong environmental post defies...
A career bureaucrat will continue to direct the Environmental Protection Department, despite long-standing calls from green groups for the role to be filled by someone with more professional and...
View ArticleDengue strikes again: Hong Kong woman is confirmed to be third local case...
For the third time this year, a Hong Kong resident was locally infected by the mosquito-borne dengue virus.
View ArticleOh no, more mooncakes! Hong Kong likely to waste Mid-Autumn Festival delicacy...
A third of Hong Kong families will buy glow sticks to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival, according to a survey by a local environmental group, which also reported that 40 million glow sticks were wasted...
View ArticleHong Kong’s construction workers can now cool off with new uniform design
An award-winning uniform designed and manufactured in Hong Kong can help the city’s more than 300,000 construction workers beat the heat and humidity during the hot summer months.
View ArticleCheers: Hong Kong researchers work to recycle blended textiles in process...
Local researchers from a publicly funded applied research institute are developing a range of new technologies to recycle blended textiles into new fabrics in a process described as being similar to...
View ArticleHong Kong authorities clear athletes and travellers for Zika after Rio
Nine Hong Kong travellers, including three athletes who developed symptoms of sickness after returning from Rio Olympic, all tested negative of Zika virus, according to the Hospital Authority.
View ArticleTwo Hongkongers get rare muscle condition after eating crayfish from mainland...
Two Hongkongers were struck with a muscle condition rarely heard of in the city after eating crayfish from the mainland.
View ArticleAmber rainstorm signal issued as showers expected in Hong Kong throughout the...
The Observatory issued an amber rainstorm signal at 11.45am as more than 20mm of rain fell over the western part of the New Territories and Lantau area in the last two hours.
View ArticleMosquito menace: why Hong Kong needs to step up the fight against dengue fever
Hongkongers should work harder to clear potential breeding grounds for mosquitoes rather than focus on personal protection from bites in the fight against the potentially lethal dengue fever virus, a...
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