No way out: How Hong Kong’s subdivided flats are leaving some residents in...
At 5am on February 16, Wu Caiyun thought she was having a horrible nightmare when her 12-year-old daughter shook her awake, screaming at the top of her lungs: “Mum, there’s a fire!” After having been...
View ArticleBreathe easier, Hong Kong is on course to hit global air pollution target
A report on Hong Kong’s efforts to improve air quality is expected to show “significant progress” towards hitting international targets in cutting pollutants over the past 4½ years and by 2020, the...
View ArticleHK$31.9 billion Kai Tak Sports Park won’t be a ‘fat pork’ contract,...
Lawmakers continued their criticism of the Kai Tak Sports Park project as another meeting of the government’s Public Works Subcommittee came and went without approving the motion to send the HK$31.9...
View ArticleHong Kong climate change meeting to show the way ahead for green buildings
Hong Kong will host its largest ever conference on sustainable buildings and urban development next month, with tackling climate change in the face of rapid urbanisation the key theme. About 1,800...
View ArticleHong Kong pushes on with controversial proposal to build housing on fringes...
Space-starved Hong Kong is moving ahead with a highly controversial government proposal to use protected country park land for subsidised housing. The not-for-profit Housing Society has been tasked to...
View ArticleHong Kong lawmakers, conservationists slam housing plan for country parks
Lawmakers and conservationists are up in arms over a move by officials to commission the not-for-profit Housing Society to study the feasibility of building flats on the fringes of country parks,...
View ArticleHong Kong electric taxis will not operate round the clock due to long...
Hong Kong’s two-year trial run of electric taxis has backfired as its long charging time was viewed as unsuitable to operate the cabs round the clock. The Environment Bureau reached the conclusion as...
View ArticleLegal barrier looms over plan to build on edges of Hong Kong’s country parks
An expert on Hong Kong’s country parks has warned that backing a proposal to build flats on the periphery of green zones would breach conservation laws and damage the city’s urban-rural buffer. But...
View ArticleWhy Hong Kong’s grandstanding lawmakers should shut up and approve HK$32bn...
Recent meetings of the government’s Public Works Subcommittee (PWSC) have been fascinating viewing. There’s a sentence no-one has ever written. In case you’ve had better things to do, the Home Affairs...
View ArticleHIV cases in Hong Kong hit record high, with more younger men infected
The number of new HIV cases in Hong Kong has hit its highest level since records began in 1984 – 202 in the first quarter – with more younger men now being infected. Figures from the Centre for Health...
View ArticleHope for Hong Kong couple stuck in bureaucratic battle over attempt to bury...
There is hope finally for a grieving Hong Kong couple whose miscarried son was designated as “clinical waste” by a public hospital, locking them in a heartbreaking bureaucratic battle to get his body...
View Article‘Open wound that won’t heal’: a Hong Kong couple’s emotional fight against...
Having to mourn the death of a child is every mother’s worst nightmare. But for grieving Hong Kong mum Angela, the ordeal was far worse. In the past month, she has been haunted on sleepless nights by...
View ArticleParents should be in front line in caring for Hong Kong children with...
A Hong Kong psychologist has urged parents to show greater care for their children as a survey found that more than 60 per cent of respondents agreed family support was more effective than government...
View ArticleHong Kong could see 35 per cent surge in HIV cases by 2021, report says
The number of Hongkongers living with HIV is expected to surge by 35 per cent in the coming four years, with 74 per cent of infections taking place among men who have sex with men, according to the...
View ArticleHong Kong health experts laud outgoing WHO chief Margaret Chan for her...
Outgoing World Health Organisation chief Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun has made significant achievements during her decade in the United Nations agency, according to health experts in Hong Kong, despite...
View ArticleHong Kong’s 2017 Shaw Prize honours work by five international researchers
Two international scientists are the latest recipients of Hong Kong’s Shaw Prize in life science and medicine, for their discovery of biological engines which can lead to breakthroughs in the treatment...
View ArticleRainstorm warnings cancelled after day of downpours and disruption in Hong Kong
All rainstorm warnings were cancelled at 3pm on Wednesday after hours of rain had drenched Hongkongers and slowed traffic to a crawl. The Hong Kong Observatory had issued the black rainstorm signal,...
View ArticleChina Eastern plane slides off runway after landing at Hong Kong...
A China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 141 passengers and crew slid off the runway at Hong Kong International Airport on Wednesday as torrential downpours lashed the city, triggering the first black...
View ArticleHong Kong grinds to a halt amid rainstorm that leaves social media awash with...
Hong Kong ground to a halt on Wednesday as the black rainstorm signal was issued for the first time this year, bringing downpour and flooding that left cars submerged and shop staff scrambling for...
View ArticleChief executive to appoint fewer Hong Kong Medical Council members in bid to...
The chief executive will give up his power to appoint four members to the Hong Kong doctors’ watchdog under a new proposal aimed at breaking the deadlock over its composition, a government source said...
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