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Hong Kong will not restrict city emigrants from public health services: minister
Lawmakers suggest restricting access of Hong Kong identity card holders who have moved overseas to public medical services.
8 Jan 2025 - 7:54PM
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Hong Kong green group slams Kai Tak rugby event for banning water bottles
Event at main stadium of soon-to-be-opened sports park banned spectators from bringing in mugs and bottles to be refilled at water dispensers.
6 Jan 2025 - 7:39PM
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Spectators of the rugby competition at the main stadium in Kai Tak Sports Park were not allowed to bring in their own water bottles. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong public dental clinics fill quotas, but waiting list draws complaints
Switch to online booking system and waiting list arrangement aimed at easing appointment process, but some elderly patients still struggling with it.
6 Jan 2025 - 10:05PM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong to launch waiting list for appointments at public dental clinics
Waiting list to be added to online booking system after more than quarter of people who booked service did not show up for appointments.
4 Jan 2025 - 1:09AM
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Hong Kong public dental clinics log 26% absence rate despite e-booking launch
Authorities launched new booking system amid intense demand for public dental services, but 40 people missed appointments on Tuesday, Thursday.
2 Jan 2025 - 9:27PM
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The launch of the online registration system follow years of complaints over residents before forced to physically queue for hours in the hopes of getting a public dental services appointment. Photo: Edmond So
Animal welfare in Hong Kong
Rare butterfly flies 3,000km from Japan to Hong Kong in migratory record
Chestnut tiger butterfly found in Repulse Bay by researcher from HKU after being released in Fukushima four months earlier.
2 Jan 2025 - 10:16PM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
2 elderly residents at Hong Kong care home given Covid-19 jabs expired for 2 weeks
Department of Health has temporarily banned doctor from government vaccination scheme after blunder at Luxe Garden residential care home in North district.
31 Dec 2024 - 9:18PM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong’s first breast milk bank to open next week
Facility aims to collect 1,000 litres per year to help up to 600 premature and critically ill newborns.
31 Dec 2024 - 4:54PM
Hong Kong courts
Hong Kong authorities appeal court ruling on golf course flats
Court this month overturned approval for 12,000 public housing flats on golf course.
31 Dec 2024 - 12:35AM
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The government is planning to build 12,000 public housing flats on part of the Fanling golf course. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Elderly Hongkongers struggle with dental bookings as online system launches
Residents at public dental clinic in Kowloon City fail to get help from staff to register for appointments.
30 Dec 2024 - 6:22PM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
How Hong Kong hospital engineer tackled ‘mission impossible’ on Covid ward
Veteran hospital engineer Yuen Pak-leung designed a negative pressure isolation ward that can be built rapidly.
30 Dec 2024 - 7:30AM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong’s winter flu season expected to peak mid-January, expert says
Many residents have recently travelled to Japan, mainland China and South Korea, which are experiencing H1N1 outbreaks, Professor David Hui says.
29 Dec 2024 - 7:23PM
Hong Kong environmental issues
Hong Kong green group warns revised IT hub plan could harm bird flight paths
Authorities have revised plans for Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone to expand its floor size.
29 Dec 2024 - 10:00AM
Hong Kong is co-developing an innovation and technology park with Shenzhen. Photo: May Tse
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong’s year in medical blunders, from unneeded surgery to detached tubes
Public hospitals suffered series of dangerous mistakes, prompting authorities to order measures to strengthen accountability and governance.
28 Dec 2024 - 4:00PM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong logs 3 deaths from 4 severe flu cases, low Covid activity uptick
The Centre for Health Protection also reveals Covid outbreak at care home for elderly involving four people from December 15 to 21.
26 Dec 2024 - 8:14PM
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Banking & finance
Banks, insurers rush for gold in Hong Kong’s ‘silver-hair economy’
Residents older than 65 years made up about 22 per cent of Hong Kong’s population of 7.5 million people in 2023, according to government data.
27 Dec 2024 - 10:11AM
Elderly residents in a stretching group exercise on November 15, 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong environmental issues
Hong Kong’s Long Valley Nature Park opens to public after habitat restoration
Officials cite verdant paddy fields among other features that promote habitat rejuvenation and conservation of endangered species.
26 Dec 2024 - 7:30AM
Hong Kong weather
Temperatures to fall in Hong Kong over weekend
Mercury to fall to as low as 14 degrees Celsius as monsoon approaches, Observatory says.
25 Dec 2024 - 5:12PM
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals
Hong Kong should open third medical school sooner amid Sino-US tensions: expert
Former head of Hospital Authority Anthony Wu says new institution must embrace technology and prepare to train talent soon.
22 Dec 2024 - 7:35PM
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