‘Polluter pays’ waste scheme expanded with 80 per cent of Hong Kong’s rubbish...
More people and businesses will have to dispose of their waste in prepaid plastic bags under an expanded “polluter pays” scheme for Hong Kong that will be put before lawmakers for approval within the...
View ArticleHeavy on light? Hong Kong LED screen size of five tennis courts sparks...
Concerns on worsening light pollution have been raised after a new LED screen in the size of five tennis courts started operating on Friday in the heart of Hong Kong’s shopping district Causeway Bay...
View ArticleTampon used to treat wound left inside Hong Kong patient by medical staff,...
A piece of tampon was found inside a woman after childbirth in a series of 13 medical blunders reported by Hong Kong public hospitals in the past few months. The incident, reported in the quarterly...
View ArticleInside Hong Kong’s growing appetite for veganism
Veganism is rapidly growing globally and Hong Kong is no exception, its local advocates claim, as dabbling in or adopting the plant-based lifestyle gains popularity. In the United States, six per cent...
View ArticleHong Kong health minister voices grave concern over liver patient stranded...
Hong Kong’s health minister has expressed grave concern over a surgeon leaving a liver transplant patient with an open wound for three hours to do surgery at another hospital. The remarks on Saturday...
View Article3,000 swimmers take the plunge as annual cross-harbour race returns to centre...
Thousands of swimmers took a plunge into the briny waters of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour for the annual cross-harbour race early on Sunday morning. It was the first time the race route went through...
View ArticleTeenagers in Hong Kong don’t get enough fruit, vegetables or exercise and...
Doctors have warned that Hong Kong teenagers are at growing risk of suffering strokes later in life, with a survey showing a “worrying” trend of youngsters rarely exercising and eating too few fruits...
View ArticleBigger, badder typhoons and climate change – what’s the link?
It has been a wild and wet 2017. As Typhoon Hato battered Hong Kong and Macau in August, grounding flights and killing 10 people, hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria unleashed hell on the Americas,...
View ArticleCarrie Lam promises to ‘personally’ ensure life-saving drug for Hong Kong...
Hong Kong’s leader has promised to “personally” ensure quick access to a potentially life-saving drug for patients suffering from a rare disease. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor made the...
View ArticleLung disease patients call for oxygen tanks to be allowed on Hong Kong public...
Sufferers of a chronic lung disease are urging the Hong Kong government to lift restrictions on oxygen tanks being carried on buses, saying current regulations are discriminatory and affect their...
View ArticleElectronic system that prevents tools being left inside patients to be rolled...
More public hospitals in Hong Kong are considering an electronic system that prevents medical tools being left inside a patient after the success of a pilot scheme. The system, which helps medical...
View ArticleIs Hong Kong ready when dementia sufferers go missing?
Nine years ago, Rennie Sha had the shock of her life when the police told her where they had found her grandma who had gone missing for several hours in the night. “In Shing Mun River,” she said,...
View ArticleCool autumn weather in Hong Kong expected to give way to warmer temperatures
A cool and dry breeze greeted Hongkongers on the first workday of the week, but the taste of autumn weather could be short-lived. At 8am on Monday, the Observatory recorded a temperature of 20.7...
View ArticleHong Kong health department orders checks on private clinics after some...
Private clinics will face random inspections after some were reported to be using household refrigerators instead of medical-grade freezers to store vaccines, Hong Kong’s health director said on...
View ArticleLawmakers urge incentives, not only punishments, in Hong Kong’s waste...
Hong Kong lawmakers remain sceptical over how a proposed “polluter pays” scheme can nudge residents into changing their behaviour on waste if the policy is all stick and no carrot. Questions were...
View ArticleFood truck scheme hard to stomach after glory days of Hong Kong’s street hawkers
When I arrived in Hong Kong just shy of quarter of a century ago, the city literally reeked of street food. From the now outlawed stinky tofu – the powerful stench of which I swear, if condensed and...
View ArticleMore than a third of Hong Kong shark fin products are from threatened...
More than a third of shark fin products sold in Hong Kong shops come from species that are vulnerable or endangered, a landmark study employing new techniques of DNA analysis has found. The report,...
View ArticleLarge snake caught in Hong Kong after possibly swallowing villager’s cat
A large snake suspected to have swallowed a cat was caught in Sai Kung on Tuesday. Tai Wan village resident Don Holliday said his neighbour found the giant reptile in the bushes with a sizeable lump in...
View ArticleHong Kong emerges from one of warmest Octobers on record
Hong Kong has just emerged from an unusually warm October, with one of the highest monthly mean temperatures on record, according to the city’s weather authority. The monthly mean temperature at the...
View ArticleThree part-time models getting dirty in Hong Kong obstacle course race urge...
It’s muddy, sweaty and certainly not the typical setting for encountering threepart-time male models. But getting dirty might be the best place for the trio to encourage Hongkongers to get out of their...
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