Enjoy sun for now, but rain is on the way to Hong Kong for Mid-Autumn Festival
Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts as rainy weather is expected in Hong Kong in the latter half of the week. The Hong Kong Observatory said that under the influence of an anticyclone, the weather would...
View ArticleHong Kong group calls for simpler organ donor registration procedures
Hongkongers should be asked whether they would like to register to become organ donors when applying for identity cards or diving licences in a move to boost the city’s low donation rate, according to...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Samantha Chan overcomes fear of getting lost in Gobi Desert to...
Hong Kong ultra runner Samantha Chan Man-ha has finished third in the Ultra Gobi – a 400-kilometre non-stop, self-navigating race described as one of the toughest in the world. Invited to the race as...
View ArticleHong Kong swelters in hottest October day for almost 130 years – a day before...
It may be a day before mid autumn, but Hong Kong continued to sizzle in high temperatures as the Observatory raised a “very hot” weather warning on Tuesday – the first time such an alert has been...
View ArticleChina will meet 2020 carbon reduction target, Xie Zhenhua says
China is on track to fulfil or possibly surpass its commitment of cutting its carbon intensity by 40 to 45 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020, the country’s chief negotiator at the Paris Agreement has...
View ArticleFlu vaccines still useful despite mismatch with WHO recommendations, Hong...
Hong Kong health chiefs and local doctors said on Tuesday that the city’s flu vaccinations should still be effective, despite the shots containing a different strain to the one most recently...
View ArticleHong Kong’s September scorcher: month one of the hottest since records began
The Hong Kong Observatory has revealed that last month was one of the hottest Septembers in the city since records began in the 1880s. The monthly mean temperature for the month was 29.0 degrees...
View ArticleWomen use iron bars, umbrella in fight over cardboard boxes, police say
Two women were arrested on Thursday for fighting over cardboard boxes with iron bars and an umbrella in the street in Cheung Sha Wan, police said. In a possible sign that recycling prices in Hong Kong...
View ArticleHong Kong children face health risk from too much screen time, according to...
Children in Hong Kong are spending more time in front of screens than their peers in mainland China and the US, exposing them further to the risk of mental and physical health problems as they get...
View ArticleBreakthrough deal means this Hong Kong seven-year-old can get the drugs he needs
It’s a rare chance for a boy with a rare disease. After two years in limbo, seven-year-old Xiao Hiu-chun shed tears of joy on Friday, on finding out he would soon have lifelong access to an expensive...
View ArticleUsing only two fingers, Hong Kong girl types 22-page proposal calling for...
Using just two fingers, a 23-year-old Hong Kong woman who is almost completely paralysed by a rare disease has written a proposal calling for patients to be treated with a new drug that could be...
View ArticleElderly Hongkongers could have more say in end-of-life care under policy...
New initiatives to allow Hong Kong’s elderly or terminally ill patients to spend their final moments in a more comfortable way, including the option to die at home, could be made possible by a review...
View ArticleUse tablets to keep track of surgical instruments, award-winning Hong Kong...
Surgical safety in Hong Kong’s public hospitals would make another leap forward if the paper count sheets used to keep track of medical instruments for operations could be replaced by electronic...
View ArticleHong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam promises to try to secure treatment for...
Hong Kong’s chief executive has promised a paralysed 23-year-old woman with a rare disease that she will try to get her, and others with her condition, access to a potentially life-saving new drug. In...
View ArticleHappy or sad? Hongkongers optimistic despite being dissatisfied, survey shows
Most Hongkongers are happy and optimistic despite many being highly dissatisfied over issues like housing and the political climate in the city, a recent survey shows. About 65 per cent of the 1,302...
View Article‘Psychiatric medication’ found in flat of Hong Kong man suspected of killing...
A 34-year-old man who was accused of murdering his bedridden mother before jumping from a 16th-floor flat in a suicide bid on Sunday was a psychiatric patient at a Hong Kong hospital and received his...
View ArticleWho cares for the carers? Third killing this year raises alarm in Hong Kong
On a good night, Mrs Yu, 70, can get about three full hours of sleep. That’s if her husband, 75, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2007, manages to get through the night without soiling himself or...
View Article‘Goodwill’ move to cut number of government appointees on Hong Kong Medical...
The number of appointed members on a doctors’ watchdog in Hong Kong would be scaled back in a latest bid by the government to break the reform deadlock with medical practitioners, Chief Executive...
View ArticleVision problems for one in 10 Hong Kong kindergarten pupils – and it’s...
Around one in 10 kindergarten pupils in Hong Kong suffered from eye problems, a concern group found, with a greater number afflicted than the previous year. Between April and August, the Society for...
View ArticleHong Kong feels the heat as Observatory issues second ‘very hot’ weather...
The Hong Kong Observatory issued an unprecedented second heat warning in October on Thursday as soaring temperatures baked the city. Parts of Hong Kong saw thermometers top 32 degrees Celsius, well...
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