Residents say promotion of new rewards scheme lacking and government should move beyond such incentives by making recycling easier for people to adopt.
New Labour Department code of practice means employers will have to set up video cameras at ways in and out of confined spaces to ensure safety of workers.
City government stresses importance of collaboration with Greater Bay Area, after minister’s call for integrated waste handling prompts concerns of rubbish importing
Signal issued at 5.40pm as broad area of low pressure over central to northern part of South China Sea intensified into tropical depression.
The city’s maritime sector has ‘a lot of catching up to do’ in terms of its decarbonisation efforts, especially given fast-changing regulations and technology advances, says the Hong Kong Shipowners Association.
Survey from CUHK and Salvation Army finds proportion of elderly with feelings of moderate or severe loneliness rose from 35.3 to 68.3 per cent since last poll in 2018.
Environment chief Tse Chin-wan says plan can see Hong Kong take advantage of mainland’s space and cheaper labour.
The child fell unconscious and her heart stopped beating after receiving three stitches for a head wound at Yan Chai Hospital on Saturday.
Development Bureau says in response it will deliver some ‘quick wins’ in coming two years for developing the island into an eco-recreation destination.
Green group says distributing designated garbage bags to public housing tenants merely effort to clear stock of 170 million bags produced for scheme.
Shelving the waste-charging scheme seems to be the wisest and most politically cost-effective way to handle the situation, an academic says.
Environmental Protection Department says it will start to arrange for retailers to return all unsold stock because of suspension of waste-charging scheme.
Government engineers say slopes near sole access points and busy roads will be singled out for remedial work to reduce landslide risk.
Post charts the journey of the controversial waste-charging scheme from its inception to its failure to launch.
Development Bureau rolls out proposal to turn four rural areas on Lantau into ‘eco-recreation corridor’.
Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk says most residents opposed to citywide roll-out of scheme on August 1, with Hong Kong’s leader endorsing putting plan ‘on hold’.
NGOs, caterers and care home operators urge authorities to boost recycling network, sort out problems with scheme’s execution and use subsidies to offset extra waste-handling costs.
Sixteen companies and institutes from Hong Kong Science Park will attend Bio International Convention, dubbed world’s largest bio event, from June 3 to 6.
Observatory says trough of low pressure will bring showers and squally thunderstorms to Guangdong on Monday and Tuesday.
Only 1 per cent of large-cap Hong Kong-listed firms in the MSCI AC Asia-Pacific IMI index have set greenhouse gas reduction targets considered ‘fully’ credible, less than the regional average.
Traveller was carrying lunchbox filled with Cantonese-style meats, including pork, which is banned due to African swine fever concerns.