Hong Kong to review post-storm work and travel arrangements after Typhoon...
Hong Kong’s leader has ordered a review of how the government should handle work and travel arrangements after being criticised for underestimating the chaotic start to the week due to widespread...
View Article‘Time running out’ to save historic Hong Kong banyan tree felled by Typhoon...
The clock was ticking on Tuesday night to save a century-old tree that lay stricken after Typhoon Mangkhut swept through Hong Kong, a local arborist said. The giant banyan tree, near the Heritage 1881...
View ArticleHong Kong preschoolers not eating enough fruit and vegetables or getting...
Hong Kong preschoolers are not eating enough fruit and vegetables or doing enough physical activity, according to a Department of Health study, with only six and 29 per cent meeting the recommended...
View ArticleHongkongers seek help for stings as bees ‘go crazy’ after Typhoon Mangkhut
Scores of Hongkongers have been stung by bees over the past two days after Typhoon Mangkhut lashed the city on Sunday, leaving countless toppled trees and destroyed insect nests in its wake. Many...
View ArticleChina’s waste ban has rocked the recycling world and revealed Hong Kong’s...
Rubbish is all about economics in Berlin. “We can’t have too much,” said Michael Paulus, an executive at BSR, the city’s government-owned waste collection firm. “But we can’t have too little either.”...
View ArticleConsultancy given task of saving historic Hong Kong banyan tree toppled by...
A consultancy firm will attempt to rescue a century-old giant Chinese banyan tree uprooted when Typhoon Mangkhut ripped through Hong Kong, the Post has learned. On Wednesday workers were seen watering...
View ArticleChainsaws flying off shop shelves in Hong Kong as clean-up after Typhoon...
Last week it was masking tape, this week it’s chainsaws. Hardware shops in Hong Kong were doing a roaring trade in chainsaws after the city was battered by Typhoon Mangkhut on Sunday. Also selling well...
View ArticleUse of ADHD medication in Hong Kong has risen 36-fold over 15 years,...
There has been a 36-fold increase in the use of medication for attention deficit disorder in Hong Kong over 15 years, indicating the condition has become a major issue in the city, a study has found....
View ArticleAbandoned dogs fall victim to Typhoon Mangkhut's power as animal welfare...
The founder of an animal welfare group has urged pet owners not to forget about their animals during typhoons after several dogs were found abandoned when monster storm Mangkhut lashed Hong Kong. The...
View ArticleTree expert appeals to Sha Tin residents to save Chinese banyan badly...
A veteran tree expert appealed to Sha Tin residents on Thursday to help save an umbrella-shaped Chinese banyan tree in Penfold Park that was badly battered by Typhoon Mangkhut, despite the Jockey Club...
View ArticleShark fin will be gone from menus by 2020, Hong Kong’s largest restaurant...
Hong Kong’s biggest restaurant chain, Maxim’s, has bowed to pressure from wildlife groups and agreed to impose a total ban on shark fin dishes in all its outlets – but not until 2020. The move comes...
View ArticleHong Kong sewage treatment facility leaking waste into waters off Sai Kung...
Sewage has been leaking into the sea in “Hong Kong’s back garden” of Sai Kung as a treatment facility there was damaged when Typhoon Mangkhut battered the city over the weekend, authorities warned on...
View ArticleCall for universal breast cancer screening in Hong Kong as study shows most...
A study of more than 16,000 Hong Kong breast cancer patients has found that only one in seven had a family history of the disease, while another study of close to 3,000 women found only one in 10 had a...
View ArticleLuxury hotel Heritage 1881 called on by Hong Kong government to save...
A luxury hotel and shopping site in Hong Kong was called upon by the government to exhaust all possible means to save a century-old tree on its land, which was knocked over as Typhoon Mangkhut swept...
View ArticleHong Kong garbage truck drivers facing up to six-hour delays amid Typhoon...
Garbage truck drivers have been waiting for up to six hours to unload rubbish at waste transfer stations this week, as Hong Kong’s massive clean-up rolled on five days after monster storm Typhoon...
View ArticleHow small Hong Kong hospital’s emergency transfers defied might of Typhoon...
As Hong Kong was pounded by the most intense typhoon on record on Sunday, a small public hospital in Kowloon had to make emergency transfers of two patients on roads blocked by toppled trees and in...
View ArticleHong Kong-based UFC referee who holds black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu...
When it comes to life-threatening combat, Hong Kong-based Thomas Fan Wai-kong, a referee for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), has seen it all, from smashed faces to broken limbs. Fan, 46, who...
View ArticleShek O Beach residents angry and fearful over Hong Kong officials’ response...
Hong Kong residents frustrated by officials’ response to clean a part of Shek O Beach devastated on Sunday by Typhoon Mangkhut have claimed debris piled up since Monday poses a health hazard. Their...
View ArticleWhat happened to the birds in Hong Kong when Typhoon Mangkhut hit?
When Typhoon Mangkhut battered Hong Kong on Sunday, it felled at least 17,000 trees and smashed hundreds of windows. As trees are home to hundreds of bird species in the city, we look at how the...
View ArticleExperts question if 11 specimens on Hong Kong’s ‘Old and Valuable Trees’ list...
Hong Kong lost at least 11 heritage trees after Typhoon Mangkhut ripped through the city, but tree experts have said the monster storm was only partly to blame. About half of the affected trees were...
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