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A large-scale “trash whale” installation is on display at West Kowloon Cultural District until Sunday to raise awareness of the scourge of plastic waste in Hong Kong. The collaboration between Greenpeace Hong Kong and product designer Kevin Cheung coincides with Plastic Free July. Made up of 2,361 pieces of disposable tableware, with an outer layer consisting of various plastic lunchboxes and lids, the whale is surrounded by paper containers and tableware that claims to be be biodegradable. See also: Restaurants slow to adopt eco-friendly alternatives as Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics ...
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Hong Kong’s Ruttonjee Hospital has reported a cluster of Covid-19 cases involving 14 patients and one staff member. All are in stable condition. The public hospital in Wan Chai announced on Thursday that 12 male and two female patients in its geriatric infirmary ward had developed a fever and tested positive for Covid-19 since last Thursday. The patients, aged between 33 and 88, were put under isolation and are currently in a stable condition. A staff member who worked on the ward also was confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19, after they began to have fever and cough last Sunday. Thei...
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The first six months of 2024 have been “abnormally warm” in Hong Kong according to the government forecaster, with a mean minimum temperature of 21.4 degrees Celsius from January to June the highest ever recorded for the period. June, which began with “generally cloudier and showery weather,” ended with nine consecutive very hot days from June 20 to 28, the Hong Kong Observatory said in a statement on Wednesday, noting that is was “one of the longest [periods] on record for June.” Last Thursday, charity the Senior Citizen Home Safety Association said it had seen “a significant increase in the ...
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Some industrial premises in Hong Kong’s New Territories are suspected of exploiting a loophole in the city’s planning system – and in the process destroying agricultural land – analysis by a land policy think tank has shown. Liber Research Community recently uncovered more than 31 government-approved brownfield operations established on land earlier assigned for animal boarding establishments. Animal shelters, which effectively allow operators to concrete over agricultural land, have been used as a “springboard” to improve the chances of industrial operations being approved, according to a Lib...
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By David Owens It is notoriously difficult to compare mortality data from different locations and even from the same place over time. Differences in reporting and in geographical, socio-economic and demographic factors confound direct comparisons. Notwithstanding these issues, as the Covid-19 pandemic slowly recedes further we are left with some reasonably consistent observations from worldwide data. Firstly, Covid is still an important public health issue, although its impact has lessened significantly and is likely, barring unforeseen mutations, to continue to pose less of a risk over time. ...
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The number of elderly Hongkongers taken to hospital has risen by 20 per cent within a week amid persistently high temperatures, a senior citizens’ charity has said. The Senior Citizen Home Safety Association (SCHSA) and the Hong Kong Observatory held a joint press conference on Thursday to warn residents, and in particular older members of the public, of “extremely hot” weather expected this summer. Temperatures soared to 34.4 degrees Celsius in Tsim Sha Tsui on Thursday, making it the hottest day of the year so far, as the Very Hot Weather Warning remained in force for a seventh consecutive d...
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All Hongkongers holding identity cards or aged under 11 are eligible to use the city’s public hospitals, health chief Lo Chung-mau has said as lawmakers raised concern that Hongkongers based overseas were returning to the city for medical treatment. “If a person holds a Hong Kong identity card but is barred from public hospitals, this would cause serious issues. We need to approach this matter more cautiously,” Lo said in Cantonese at the legislature on Wednesday, adding that it was difficult to define what counted as “moving abroad.” Pro-establishment legislator Priscilla Leung had asked if t...
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Hong Kong’s town planning authorities should not “hastily approve” a draft zoning plan for a proposed tech hub, green groups have said, warning that the proposal may violate at least five ecological conservation guidelines in mainland China. The San Tin Technopole, which was conditionally approved by the city’s environmental authorities last month, is seen as the centrepiece of the proposed Northern Metropolis. The large-scale project was announced in 2021 and aims to integrate the development of existing new towns in Yuen Long, Tin Shui Wai, Fanling and Sheung Shui and develop other rural are...
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Hong Kong’s health chief has drawn criticism from lawmakers after likening women’s fertility to “soil,” saying it deteriorates over time and therefore couples in the city should give birth to children while they are young. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau on Thursday said women should not forget that fertility declines with age and that freezing their eggs may not help them conceive later, as he addressed a legislature debate on a motion for policies supporting assisted reproduction. “It is not just a problem with the eggs, it is also a problem with the soil. Even if you have frozen your eggs...
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Heavy rains in southern China have killed nine people and left six missing, state media reported Thursday. Downpours in Guangdong province this week sparked floods and landslides, with the spate of extreme weather impacting nationwide. In Jiaoling county near the city of Meizhou, five people died and two were missing following floods, according to state broadcaster CCTV. In a separate district of Meizhou, four more were killed and four others were unaccounted for, CCTV said. It added that some areas have endured “once-a-century flooding… (or) the biggest since historical records began”. CCTV s...
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