‘Liking, sharing Facebook posts won’t bring change’: Hong Kong Greenpeace...
Andy Chu Kong, a campaigner for Greenpeace in Hong Kong, is encouraged by the city’s increasing environmental awareness. He says that even his mother, who did not grow up with slogans about how to live...
View ArticleTwo men in hospital after Hong Kong wild boar goes on rampage
One of the city’s wild boar gave police and conservation officials the runaround in Tseung Kwan O early on Saturday morning, injuring two people in the process. Police received a report just after...
View ArticleSecond wild boar encounter over weekend as four animals subdued in Aberdeen,...
Hong Kong recorded another boar sighting on Sunday morning, one day after two men were sent to hospital following an encounter with a wild pig in Tseung Kwan O. At about 6.28am, police were called to 8...
View Article‘No optimism’ for survival of Chinese white dolphin in Hong Kong waters
The Chinese white dolphin – the iconic pink-coloured sea mammal selected as the symbol of Hong Kong’s handover to the mainland exactly 20 years ago – has seen its regional numbers drop to a new low...
View ArticleHong Kong environmental group calls for stricter air quality targets citing...
Hong Kong’s air quality targets need to be made stricter immediately to bring them closer to international health standards, according to an environmental group citing recent pollution figures. The...
View ArticleHong Kong and mainland China have cooperated on healthcare – but new...
Tension between Hong Kong and the mainland was high in 2003 after the deadly outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). An infected professor, who worked at a Guangzhou hospital, spread the...
View ArticleDream of home away from home in mainland China loses its attraction for many...
Bigger flats and lower living costs on the mainland have seen many Hongkongers retire across the border, but the Post has found the lure may be starting to fade. Ms Woo, a 67-year-old Hongkonger, was...
View ArticleHong Kong’s ageing time bomb a cause for concern
People have been spending their whole lives trying to live longer, but to 93-year-old Sum Shuet longevity is nothing but a curse. “I hope my son will fall asleep soon so I can also sleep,” Sum said,...
View ArticleCritics of Hong Kong health minister say he watered down coverage plan under...
The outgoing health minister Dr Ko Wing-man enjoyed high popularity ratings throughout his term in Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s cabinet, but his soft approach in pushing new policies disappointed...
View ArticleHow China’s efforts to foster patriotism through sport in Hong Kong since the...
Hong Kong’s colonial rulers did little to promote sport outside the expatriate bubble because of its possibility for fostering nationalism and patriotism – and since the handover, efforts to promote...
View ArticleFood officials slammed by Hong Kong watchdog for not updating lists of...
Hong Kong food officials were slammed by the city’s Ombudsman for a lack of transparency in not publishing updated lists of local traders involved in Taiwan’s “gutter oil” scandal of 2014, after it was...
View ArticleRecord-breaking donation set to fund medical innovation and cancer research...
Hong Kong’s oldest university has secured the largest single donation in its 105 year history to help fund a clinical innovation centre and cancer institute at Grantham Hospital in Wong Chuk Hang. The...
View ArticleHong Kong sport has come on leaps and bounds since handover, and city can aim...
Sport in Hong Kong has come on leaps and bounds since the handover, and the only way is up, insists sports commissioner Yeung Tak-keung. Critics might suggest that the fact the city only got around to...
View ArticleChina’s largest bike-sharing app Ofo considering ‘smog-free’ bicycles
Dutch innovator and designer Daan Roosegaarde says he is in talks with China’s largest bike-sharing app, Ofo, to launch bicycles that can suck pollutants from the atmosphere, creating what he claims is...
View Article85pc of health websites popular in Hong Kong ‘give bad advice’
Beware of browsing online for medical help – around 85 per cent of websites examined in a study carried inaccurate advice. The Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Hong Kong, which reviewed 50 popular...
View ArticleHong Kong columbarium clients fail to get refunds as new law kicks in
At least three columbarium customers recently failed to get refunds from temples as a new law regulating the business came into effect on Friday, with a concern group warning there could be many more...
View ArticleHong Kong surgeon leaves her comfort zone by volunteering for work in South...
When Hong Kong surgeon Shannon Melissa Chan was trying her best to save a newborn baby boy in South Sudan, the mother of the baby grabbed her hand and said: “Let him go.” Minutes later, the boy died in...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Victoria Harbour lights up with largest and most expensive...
Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour was on Saturday lit up by the largest and most expensive fireworks display since 1997 – when the former British colony was returned to Chinese sovereignty – to mark the...
View ArticleProtect Hong Kong’s egrets by adopting tree pruning licence scheme: experts
The tree pruning blunder that killed 21 birds in a protected egret habitat in Hong Kong last month could have been prevented had an official licensing scheme been in place, according to critics. Many...
View ArticleAcupuncture proves an effective weight loss tool, Hong Kong researchers claim
Traditional acupuncture treatments may help the obese in Hong Kong lose weight, a recent study has shown. In a clinical trial of 72 overweight Hongkongers, patients who received regular acupuncture...
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