Poor air quality to persist in Hong Kong over the weekend as air mass with...
The air quality in Hong Kong on Friday worsened progressively with the city’s pollution index hitting the highest level of 10+ at nine monitoring stations by evening and posing a “serious” health risk....
View ArticleCheung Chau man confirmed to have dengue fever is 24th person in Hong Kong...
A 66-year-old man from Cheung Chau was confirmed to have dengue fever on Friday, bringing the total number of people in Hong Kong who have contracted the mosquito-borne virus locally to 24 this year,...
View ArticleAmid the joy of motherhood: the forgotten Hong Kong women left behind by...
When Vivian Lee gave birth to her first child, family and friends were overjoyed, and for days the congratulations came pouring in. Nobody ever noticed how much the new mother dreaded their cooing and...
View Article‘Miracle boy’ with heart defect who got Hong Kong’s first ventricular assist...
Carrying a black canvas bag and wearing a dark blue shirt, Yeung Chin-kwun looks like any other boy hanging out in the park. Except the bag contains five pounds of medical equipment, and the young...
View ArticleAir pollution blankets Hong Kong, with nitrogen dioxide and ozone mass...
A blanket of haze hung over Hong Kong for most of Saturday, with 14 of 16 air quality monitoring stations reaching the highest level of 10+ on the pollution index at 5pm, indicating a “serious” health...
View ArticleTwo more people diagnosed with dengue fever in Hong Kong, raising total to 26...
Two more people were diagnosed with dengue fever on Saturday, bringing the total number of people in Hong Kong who have contracted the mosquito-borne virus locally to 26 this year, the health...
View ArticleHong Kong to pay for recyclers to collect plastic waste in trial scheme...
A trial scheme to boost Hong Kong’s dismal waste plastic recycling rate will be rolled out next year in three districts, the city’s No 2 official announced on Sunday. Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung...
View ArticleHeavy rain pounds Hong Kong as Observatory issues red rainstorm signal and...
The Hong Kong Observatory issued a red rainstorm signal at 11.05pm on Sunday, as heavy rain pounded the city, with more than 70mm of rain falling over the Central and Western District. The red...
View ArticleVillagers in Lung Kwu Tan, ‘Hong Kong’s dumping ground’, fear the...
Lau Wai-ping strolls along the beach in front of his village, occasionally kicking up sand, as he often did in his childhood. The grains are as black, fine and pillowy as in the 66-year-old’s memories...
View ArticleA dead Indonesian woman, a sick Indian rubber tree, and the two closely...
Two companies separately awarded multimillion-dollar contracts to maintain trees in a public housing estate where a branch fell and killed a domestic helper last week are closely connected, while...
View ArticleHong Kong hospital apologises for patient’s death after student nurse...
A Hong Kong hospital apologised for failing to follow protocol after the death of an elderly patient, upon whom a nursing student performed a medical procedure without supervision or guidance early...
View ArticleFive infected with hepatitis E after receiving organs from same Hong Kong woman
Five people who received transplanted organs from the same donor have been infected with hepatitis E, a Hong Kong hospital revealed on Monday, in what was thought to be the first case of its kind in...
View ArticleHong Kong public hospitals to consider new test for hepatitis E virus in...
Public hospitals in Hong Kong will consider introducing a new test for a virus in organ donors after five patients in transplants were infected with liver disease. The patients, aged six to 66, were...
View ArticleDespite hepatitis E infections, Hong Kong’s potential organ donors urged to...
A doctor on Wednesday urged Hong Kong residents not to be discouraged from donating organs, after five people got infected with a potentially lethal virus after receiving transplants from the same...
View ArticleRed rainstorm warning issued for Hong Kong after thundery showers and strong...
The Hong Kong Observatory issued a red rainstorm signal at 6.40pm, warning that heavy rain had fallen and was expected to continue, which could cause serious flooding and traffic congestion. It came...
View ArticleSwine fever outbreak prompts call to slaughter Hong Kong pigs separately from...
Hong Kong has been urged to slaughter local pigs separately from those imported from mainland China over fears of a rapid spread of African swine fever that has already caused more than 24,000 pigs to...
View ArticleUnsupervised procedures by nursing students ‘occurred multiple times’, family...
The family of a 61-year-old man who died after a nursing student performed a medical procedure on him without supervision has alleged that the breach in protocol had occurred multiple times, and called...
View ArticleHong Kong schoolchildren eat less salt and sugar in lunches but too much...
Hong Kong’s schoolchildren are getting less salt, sugar and fat in their lunches but consuming too much protein and not enough dietary fibre, health officials have determined. The city’s Centre for...
View ArticleHong Kong food and hygiene department slammed for poor supervision of city’s...
Hong Kong’s Ombudsman wants the city’s Food and Environmental Hygiene Department to shape up on supervising wet markets, after finding a host of problems that could affect consumers. Topping the fix-it...
View ArticleCheung Chau woman, 63, latest dengue fever sufferer, bringing total number of...
A 63-year-old Hong Kong woman living on Cheung Chau in Hong Kong was confirmed on Thursday to be the latest dengue fever sufferer, bringing the total number of local cases to 28. Updates on the city’s...
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