Generate income by generating power – Hong Kong homes close to selling solar...
Hongkongers can apply to sell renewable energy into the grid as early as next week, officials from the larger of the city’s two power companies said on Monday as they presented details of a new...
View ArticleDementia test made famous by Donald Trump now just a phone call away in Hong...
A five-minute mental health test developed by a Hong Kong university that can be administered over the phone has been hailed as an important step in catching dementia in its early stages. As Hong Kong...
View ArticleCan new HIV drug made in Hong Kong prevent and combat the virus that causes...
A team led by scientists from the University of Hong Kong has developed a new antibody drug that will not only protect people from contracting HIV but also serve as a long-acting treatment for the...
View ArticleMeasles case confirmed in Hong Kong amid outbreak in Japan and Taiwan
The spectre of a measles outbreak, already under way in Japan and Taiwan, now looms over the city, after a male patient was confirmed to have contracted the highly communicable viral disease in a...
View ArticleHong Kong public hospitals chief Leung Pak-yin to quit when contract ends in...
The head of Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority will leave the organisation, which has been rocked by a series of recent blunders, when his contract ends next year. Dr Leung Pak-yin, who turns 60 next year,...
View ArticleHong Kong warms to solar power, but how many people can afford rooftop panels...
While fossil fuels serve more than 70 per cent of Hong Kong’s energy needs, a village house in Tai Po may hold the key to a sustainable future for a city notorious for excessive consumption. Eddie...
View ArticleNine-year-old Hongkonger diagnosed with ADHD only after she told tutor she...
Eva Chan, a mother of two, began to notice that her then six-year-old daughter was emotionally unstable and became nervous easily. The girl would get sick and have diarrhoea before a test, and nipped...
View ArticleHow a Hongkonger’s invention helped his father and others battle joint pain
For as long as he can remember, Hong Kong manufacturer Stanley Kwok Chi-hung has wanted to find a way to help ease the knee and joint pain his father has suffered for years. It took Kwok, a co-director...
View ArticleHong Kong’s public hospitals to offer non-invasive Down’s syndrome test for...
From next year, women with high-risk pregnancies will be able to take a free non-invasive test for Down’s syndrome at Hong Kong’s public hospitals, instead of having to pay HK$5,000 for it in the...
View ArticleHong Kong arm-wrestling chief is going from strength to strength after...
Every Tuesday and Saturday Hong Kong student Tommy Kwong Tze-man goes to the gym and pulls weights, lifts dumbbells and does leg presses – and gets a little closer to his dream. The visits to Optimum...
View ArticleHis DNA test for Down’s Syndrome benefited millions but raised ethical...
Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, 54, is one of Hong Kong’s foremost innovators in the realm of medical science. He was educated at Oxford University, the director of the Li Ka-shing Institute of Health Sciences and...
View ArticleNumber of hip fractures from osteoporosis in Hong Kong expected to triple in...
The number of Hongkongers suffering from hip fractures caused by osteoporosis would almost triple in about 30 years at an annual rate estimated to be one of the fastest in the region, behind only...
View ArticleIs there a better way to manage Hong Kong’s iconic, centuries-old stone wall...
Landscaping officials are studying the safety and structure of Hong Kong’s iconic stone wall trees in the hopes of finding a new way to manage them. Typically banyans and many centuries old, the trees...
View ArticleParalysed Hong Kong teen’s doctors and hospital staff cleared of wrongdoing
Doctors and hospital staff involved in a medical incident in which a 16-year-old Hong Kong girl was left half-paralysed have been cleared of wrongdoing as her family called the findings “hard to...
View ArticleFears of measles outbreak in Hong Kong prompt call for vaccines to be...
The city’s largest doctors’ group, the Hong Kong Medical Association, has urged the government to provide measles vaccines to private clinics amid concerns among the public that an outbreak of the...
View ArticleHong Kong government needs to improve access to public sector data to realise...
Academics have urged the government to improve access to public sector data if it truly wants to develop Hong Kong into a smart city. Typical public sector information (PSI) disseminated for free...
View ArticleWhat Hongkongers should know about Japan's measles outbreak
Hong Kong was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to have achieved measles-free status in 2016. But the disease has returned to the spotlight after a surge in cases was reported in the...
View ArticleIs Hong Kong measles case linked to flight that may have sparked outbreaks in...
Health authorities in Hong Kong are trying to determine whether an expatriate man confirmed with measles was infected on a Tigerair flight linked to outbreaks in Japan and Taiwan which have left more...
View ArticleShow of public support for conservation of Hong Kong wetland after suspicious...
More than 80 per cent of Hongkongers polled by a coalition of green groups support better conservation of a wetland in the New Territories that has been plagued by suspicious fires. At least 62 per...
View ArticleHong Kong health officials consider sugar tax to cure city of its bad health...
Hong Kong could consider a new sugar tax and increase its alcohol duty “if all else fails” to reduce deaths from non-communicable diseases, the health authority said on Friday as it unveiled its...
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