Hong Kong ship regulation on sulphur dioxide emissions set to align with...
A two-year-old Hong Kong regulation requiring ships to switch to low-sulphur fuel at berth is to be replaced by one that will extend the standard to marine vessels operating in Hong Kong waters. The...
View ArticleHong Kong researcher finds aspirin can help reduce premature births
An international study in which a Chinese University professor took part revealed that low dosages of aspirin can cut premature births caused by a hypertensive pregnancy complication by more than 60...
View ArticlePanel blames lack of vigilance by doctors for liver blunder at Hong Kong...
A lack of vigilance by two specialists amid a heavy workload was to blame for a blunder that led to the liver failure of a woman who later needed two transplants, an investigative panel said on...
View ArticleRise after fall in Hong Kong electricity use linked to subsidies
Subsidies may have reversed a trend of falling energy use among households three years ago, according to a study, whose experts also warned of increasing use in the commercial sector. Energy...
View ArticleThree arrested after Hong Kong customs seizes 7.2 tonnes of ivory from...
Hong Kong customs officers arrested a man and two women after making the biggest ivory bust in 30 years, seizing 7.2 tonnes of tusks with an estimated street value of HK$72 million. The smuggling...
View ArticleTwo cancer patients had small metal parts left in body after surgery, Hong...
Two cancer patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital were found to have had small metal parts from a new medical device left in their bodies after surgery since as long ago as last year, it emerged on...
View ArticleHong Kong secondary school pupils feel let down by curriculum, study shows
Hong Kong secondary school pupils face rising stress as they progress through school under a curriculum where a single exam “decides their future”, academic researchers have said. Looking at the...
View ArticleBeijing never pressured me in office, former WHO chief Margaret Chan says
The first Chinese director general for the World Health Organisation has said that Beijing had never interfered with her job, including the decision last year not to invite Taiwan into the group’s...
View ArticleFree ‘cook-it-yourself’ scheme serves Hong Kong elderly and lifts their spirits
Receiving fresh food twice a week for free, Ng Sau-lan can now enjoy more nutritious meals and a better social life with her friends. Every Wednesday and Friday, the 91-year-old grandmother visits a...
View Article17 hurt as Hong Kong minibus crashes and overturns
Seventeen people were injured, two seriously, on Saturday night when a minibus crashed in Tseung Kwan O. The No 13 green minibus was on Po Lam Road North heading to Kwun Tong after leaving Haven of...
View ArticleHong Kong’s new welfare chief urges action to ease plight of city’s elderly...
Hong Kong’s new welfare minister called for a fresh look at the support network for the tens of thousands of elderly people who serve as caregivers as he proposed an inquiry into a tragedy in which an...
View ArticleHong Kong doctors asked to report antibiotics use amid global superbug crisis
Hong Kong’s private doctors will be asked to report the use of antibiotics under a comprehensive government action plan to tackle overprescription and the proliferation of superbugs. The move to get a...
View ArticleCan these three steps save the Chinese white dolphin in Hong Kong?
A conservation group has called for the creation of a supersized marine park by connecting all existing ones around Lantau Island if Hong Kong is to halt the rapid decline in Chinese white dolphins. It...
View ArticleOne in three Hongkongers infected with bacteria that could lead to stomach...
One in every three Hongkongers is infected with a bacteria that could lead to stomach ulcers or gastric cancer, according to a new study. Although not all those infected will develop these issues,...
View ArticleHong Kong patient’s death sparks call for better supervision of intern doctors
The Coroner’s Court called for better supervision of intern doctors after recording a verdict of misadventure on a 75-year-old woman who died following a bone marrow procedure. Chan King-chun suffered...
View ArticleAntiviral drugs not given to Hong Kong patient in latest hospital blunder
An elderly cancer patient and chronic hepatitis B carrier is seriously ill after doctors forgot to prescribe antiviral drugs for her liver condition in yet another public hospital blunder. The incident...
View ArticleTwo-year-old girl fighting for her life as Hong Kong summer flu season hits
Doctors have warned Hongkongers that the flu season is worse than usual this summer and set to peak over the next two weeks. A two-year-old girl is fighting for her life after contracting severe...
View ArticleFlats or butterflies? Hong Kong green group says country park eyed by...
Dozens of butterfly species, some extremely rare, have been spotted on the fringes of a country park identified as a possible site to build flats and homes for the elderly. Green Power conducted a...
View ArticleWest side of Hong Kong and the poor most at risk from city’s dirty roadside...
Recent Hong Kong government figures may show a general improvement in air quality – but the threat to public health from street level pollution remains dire and will continue to worsen in the absence...
View ArticleHigh hopes for headway in reforming Hong Kong’s elderly care system
In December 2014, more than 30 months ago, this venerable newspaper discretely published a downpage story on a possible breakthrough in Alzheimer’s treatments by the Chinese Academy of Medical...
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