Hong Kong health bosses to unleash big data on medical records
Health officers in Hong Kong have started work on a big data platform which will eventually allow researchers to analyse anonymised medical records. Scholars have said they hoped the platform would...
View ArticleObservatory issues third frost warning of year as shivering Hongkongers told...
The Hong Kong Observatory on Monday afternoon issued its third frost warning of the year, as the city was getting ready to endure another night of very cold weather despite warmer weather forecast for...
View ArticleJekyll and Hyde policy on electric cars
Elon Musk’s Tesla has a well-deserved reputation for squeezing subsidies and concessions out of governments. So it was the case in Hong Kong. I agree as a business practice, it’s not a flattering...
View ArticleExtra land ‘not enough’ to solve Hong Kong’s housing crisis without more...
Increasing land supply will not be enough to solve Hong Kong’s housing crisis if more subsidised flats are not built, experts said on Monday as construction work began on a major reclamation project to...
View ArticleFour more Hong Kong primary schools hit by flu as expert warns of post-Lunar...
Four more primary schools were hit by flu outbreaks, as the city recorded more than 100 deaths during the winter flu peak season so far, and an expert warned of outbreaks of another flu strain after...
View ArticleHong Kong schools could close before Lunar New Year holiday to stem seasonal...
The Lunar New Year holidays could start early for schoolchildren in Hong Kong as the city’s leader weighs the merits of keeping pupils home following flu outbreaks in kindergartens and primary schools...
View ArticleLunar New Year holiday may start early for schools as Hong Kong’s leader...
The Lunar New Year holiday could start early for schoolchildren in Hong Kong as the city’s leader held urgent talks with experts to consider keeping pupils home to stem the surge of flu cases amid a...
View ArticleHong Kong primary schools and kindergartens to close on Thursday for early...
All 1,600 kindergartens, primary schools and special needs schools in Hong Kong will close from Thursday in a rare move bringing forward their Lunar New Year holiday to stem the city’s flu outbreak....
View ArticleBreakthrough HKUST-led research on mapping of HIV weak spots paves way for...
Data scientists have discovered a way to map weak spots in HIV, potentially paving the way for researchers to design a vaccine. An international team of scientists led by the Hong Kong University of...
View ArticleEducation chief says Hong Kong school closures for pupils’ health, but...
Hong Kong’s education chief appealed for parents’ and teachers’ understanding on Wednesday, in the face of grumblings over his department’s call to close schools for the holidays two days earlier than...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about this year’s unusual winter flu surge in Hong Kong
Another year, another flu season. But how different is this one? Since the start of the year, more than 120 people, including two children, have died from serious flu complications in an unusually...
View ArticleHong Kong parents take children to school despite classes being cancelled...
Many working parents had no option but to take their children to school on Thursday, despite classes having been cancelled at Hong Kong’s kindergartens and primary schoolsto curb the spread of flu....
View ArticleExperts denounce Canto-pop star’s claim of harmful flu jabs as ‘totally...
A viral message by Canto-pop star Kay Tse On-kei on the flu vaccine containing mutated bacteria and mercury was widely denounced by medical and health experts as well as the Department of Health on...
View ArticleBad weather, fewer first-timers and poor diets: 3 reasons Hong Kong’s blood...
Around 15,000 fewer Hongkongers chose to donate blood in 2017 compared with the year before as bad weather kept more people at home and not as many first-time donors stepped up to the mark. The Red...
View ArticleExperts insist flu vaccines are ‘66 per cent effective’ amid doubts cast by...
More Hong Kong doctors and two pharmaceutical giants weighed in on the effectiveness of the current flu vaccine – estimated at 66 per cent by a team of researchers – as a second celebrity cast doubt on...
View Article10 per cent rise in overtime allowance for Hong Kong health care workers in...
Nurses and health care workers who work overtime at Hong Kong’s public hospitals will receive a 10 per cent increase in allowances from next Monday under a raft of measures to cope with the surge in...
View ArticleHow losing loved ones to cancer spurred a woman to form Hong Kong’s biggest...
Having lost loved ones to cancer in the past three decades, Sally Lo is no stranger to the disease which is the No 1 killer in Hong Kong. Born and raised in an upper-class family in London, Lo married...
View ArticleStudents mean business at young entrepreneur programme in Hong Kong
It used to be that starting a business was best left to those with money, otherwise options were limited. But those days are gone with many young people starting businesses with the help of Junior...
View ArticleFormer Hong Kong health chief says school flu closures ‘justified’, slams...
Hong Kong’s former health minister Dr Ko Wing-man has thrown his weight behind his successor’s decision to suspend school amid a serious flu outbreak, while also lashing out against misleading claims...
View ArticleCold snap drives up cost of flowers at Hong Kong Lunar New Year fair
Thousands of holidaymakers and visitors who flocked to the annual Lunar New Year Fair saw the price of flowers peak this year after prolonged periods of cold weather. But the atmosphere in the market...
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