Hong Kong residents told to limit time outdoors as serious air pollution hits...
Hong Kong authorities urged the public to limit their time outdoors on Wednesday as severe pollution hit the city’s northern areas. The Environmental Protection Department recorded higher than normal...
View ArticleTai O villagers urge review of Hong Kong flood prevention amid long clean-up...
Disgruntled villagers on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island have demanded a full review of flood-prevention measures in Tai O, where tsunami-like waves destroyed homes during Typhoon Hato last week. The...
View ArticleThird major storm in two weeks due to hit Hong Kong by Sunday, weather...
The Hong Kong Observatory will consider issuing a tropical cyclone signal No 1 on Friday as a tropical depression moves closer to the city. Acting senior scientific officer Pan Chi-kin said on...
View ArticleHong Kong is misusing its public recycling bins, green group says
Waste-separation bins are being misused across Hong Kong, with contents more likely to end up in a landfill than at a recycling plant, a green group has found. A two-day investigation by Greeners...
View ArticleExtra 500 beds for Hong Kong’s public hospitals, but not enough for winter...
An extra 500 beds announced on Thursday for Hong Kong’s overcrowded public hospitals will not be enough to cope with the winter flu season, authorities have conceded. The increase by the Hospital...
View ArticleTropical storm Mawar expected to be closest to Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon
Tropical depression Mawar, which is threatening to bring Hong Kong its third typhoon in only two weeks, is expected to be closest to the city on Sunday afternoon when it makes landfall in Shantou,...
View ArticleHong Kong bag first gold medal at China National Games as Yang Qianyu and...
Hong Kong won its first gold at the National Games in Tianjin as Yang Qianyu and Pang Yao came first in the women’s madison event at the cycling velodrome. Yang and Pang, who were third in qualifying,...
View ArticleHealth officials in Hong Kong and mainland China unite to battle deadly...
Health officials in Hong Kong and mainland China have joined forces to battle deadly superbugs, after the discovery of a new drug-resistant bacteria in a mainland hospital, the city’s health minister...
View ArticleAre illegal abortions in Hong Kong related to ‘class problem’?
Increasing numbers of Hong Kong women are risking their lives by seeking illegal abortions at makeshift clinics in the city or on the mainland, an issue which a local lawmaker has condemned as a huge...
View ArticleCrazy? Maybe ... but it’s my calling, says Hong Kong man who plans to run...
Having run 303 miles in five days at Hawaii’s Epicman in the summer, Hong Kong ultra marathon runner Wong Ho-fai wants to run almost three times farther – a staggering 1,400km – around the island of...
View ArticleTyphoon signal No 1 issued, but Tropical Storm Mawar unlikely to hit Hong Kong
Hong Kong woke to a standby typhoon signal on Saturday as Tropical Storm Mawar came within 800km, but forecasters said the city was unlikely to face its third weather-beating in a fortnight. But the...
View ArticleHong Kong environment chief allays fears of developing country parks for housing
Hong Kong’s environment secretary on Saturday played down concerns that the city’s country parks would be developed for housing and said the government had a policy in place to conserve such areas....
View ArticleThe heroes of Hato: how Hong Kong firemen braved floods to rescue villagers
Hong Kong firefighters have recalled a harrowing mission to rescue trapped residents in flood-hit areas last month as the biggest storm in five years slammed the region, injuring 130 people in the city...
View ArticleHong Kong Observatory issues No 3 storm warning as Mawar edges closer
The Hong Kong Observatory issued its No 3 warning signal at 10.40pm on Sunday as tropical storm Mawar edged closer to the city. 10:40PM: Strong Wind Signal, No. 3 issued (replacing No. 1...
View ArticleSeven-year-old Hong Kong boy with rare disease still waits for drug treatment...
After two years of waiting with little hope in sight, a seven-year-old Hong Kong boy will continue to suffer the unbearable conditions of a rare disease that gave him a bell-shaped chest and deformed...
View ArticleFlexible elderly-friendly designs must be future for Hong Kong’s public...
The head of Hong Kong’s second largest public housing provider has called on the government to provide incentives for private developers to install elderly-friendly designs in their buildings. Marco Wu...
View ArticleResidents in subdivided flats will suffer the most as Hong Kong’s summers...
People living in squalid and poorly ventilated subdivided flats will suffer the most as Hong Kong summers become significantly hotter, a former director of the Observatory has warned. Lam Chiu-ying...
View ArticleTyphoon signal No 3 downgraded to No 1 as Mawar moves away from Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Observatory downgraded its typhoon warning signal from No 3 to No 1 on Monday morning as tropical storm Mawar gradually moved away and weakened, prompting a gradual return to business as...
View ArticleCash boost to help Hong Kong recyclers when mainland waste import ban kicks in
A Hong Kong green fund has set aside HK$20 million to help the city’s recyclers ride out a fall in business expected to hit later this year, when the mainland stops importing foreign waste. The cash,...
View ArticleEx-undercover investigator urges more fellow Chinese to fight ivory trade
Undercover investigator Huang Hongxiang could almost smell the grim consequences when his bag carrying a hidden camera was opened by a villager in Vietnam, where almost everyone in the hamlet had a...
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