Plans to introduce a problem-plagued waste charging scheme in Hong Kong will be reviewed by the end of May after a two-month pilot scheme and a report will be submitted to legislators, the govern...
Hong Kong last month recorded its hottest April since meteorological records began in 1884, according to the city’s weather observatory. Last month’s average temperature of 26.4 degrees Celsi...
By Matthew Walsh The death toll from a highway collapse in southern China’s Guangdong province has risen to 48, state media said Thursday, as rescue work continued. Heavy rains caused a stretch...
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By David Owens Health is a positive construct which exists along a spectrum. Almost all of us have the capacity to be healthier. Too often, narratives around health focus on metrics of disease. C...
Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics is going smoothly, Chief Executive John Lee has said, despite confusion surrounding how the rules are being implemented and poor compliance. Speaking at h...
President Theatre in Hong Kong has announced it will shut down on Tuesday, after operating in the city for more than half a century. The announcement came less than a week after another local cin...
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By Robin Millard Asia was the world’s most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties an...
An NGO serving Hong Kong’s low-income residents has urged the government to delay the enforcement of a controversial waste charging scheme among disadvantaged tenants of “cage homes,” subdi...
A government advisory body has conditionally approved a report on the environmental impact of building a technology hub near the city’s border with mainland China, despite criticism from green ...
Hong Kong restaurants have been slow to switch to eco-friendly alternatives following the single-use plastics ban enacted on Monday, with many still using disposables. Single-use plastics includi...
By Amber Wang and Yan Zhao Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly q...
Hong Kong’s Environment and Ecology Bureau is not participating in a trial of the city’s waste charging scheme, saying that the way rubbish was collected from its location in the Central Gove...
Hong Kong’s ban on single-use plastics began on Monday, coinciding with Earth Day. A variety of disposable plastic tableware and other plastic products are now prohibited from being sold or tak...
Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours. Heavy rain has descended upo...
Once again our government appears lost as it contemplates how to manage Hong Kong’s growing mountain of garbage. The logic of the endlessly postponed solid waste charging scheme is clear: if yo...
The Hong Kong government has defended its monthly spending of HK$3.75 million to maintain defunct Covid-19 isolation centres after one legislator described the bill as “shocking.” Secretary f...
The Hong Kong government has said it will speed up food waste recycling and set up hundreds more smart bins to collect food waste before August, when the city officially rolls out its delayed was...
Hong Kong’s public hospitals saw a turnover rate of 6.1 per cent for full-time doctors in 2023, authorities have said as they continued to recruit non-local medics to address the manpower short...
More than 40 per cent of Hong Kong civil servants dismissed over the past five years were sacked over not complying with the city’s vaccination requirements when Covid-19 rules were in place. O...
A former environment minister and a waste reduction expert have urged against delaying Hong Kong’s waste charging scheme any further, after a pro-Beijing heavyweight called the scheme “missio...
A pro-Beijing heavyweight has urged the Hong Kong government to halt or postpone its already-delayed waste charging scheme, saying it was originally proposed by the “radical opposition” and c...
Only between 20 and 50 per cent of the households participating in a trial of Hong Kong’s new pay-as-you-throw waste tax were using the designated bags to dispose of rubbish, environment minist...
The regional winners of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest were announced on Wednesday, honouring the best photojournalism and photography produced over the past year. Palestinian photographer Mo...
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Taiwan’s foreign minister lashed out at Bolivia Saturday for expressing solidarity with China following an earthquake that struck the island Beijing views as its own. At least 10 people were ki...
Experts have warned against touching or feeding Hong Kong’s wild monkeys after a man wounded by macaques was left in a critical condition in the city’s first case of human B virus infection. ...
By Yan Zhao with Amber Wang Taiwan rescuers worked Thursday to reach scores of people trapped in highway tunnels as engineers began a massive clear-up operation a day after the island’s biggest...
At least one person was feared dead and nearly 60 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings that extended to Japan and th...
April in Hong Kong has got off to an unseasonably hot start, with highs of 31 degrees Celsius forecast for Thursday. The temperature on Monday, the final day of the long Easter weekend, reached 2...
Hong Kong businesses and residents have called for more support for recycling as the city began a trial run of its waste charging scheme, with one restaurant involved in the pilot phase saying it...
This article was published in partnership with Repórter Brasil. At first glance, there is little to link a handful of featureless Hong Kong office spaces to the world’s largest tropical rainfo...