After the Hong Kong Football Festival finished on Thursday, the city’s attention has turned the major role it will play in staging the 2025 National Games. Saturday marked 100 days until the multi-sports bonanza starts on November 9, with eight competition events being hosted in Hong Kong. Yeung Tak-keung, head of the city’s National Games…
Hong Kong’s No 2 official has urged the public not to panic over a possible outbreak of chikungunya fever, expressing confidence that infections can be contained with government workers stepping up mosquito control efforts. Chief Secretary Eric Chan Kwok-ki made the appeal as Hong Kong reported five imported cases in a week, while Tuen Mun…
When a drone’s camera picked up water buckets and potted plants on the balcony of a four-storey village house in Foshan – the city in Guangdong province at the centre of southern China’s chikungunya outbreak – local authorities acted quickly. An official visited the house but was denied entry, prompting the village’s Communist Party secretary…
Hong Kong reported a new imported chikungunya fever case and another probable patient on Friday, bringing the number of confirmed cases to five in a week. Health authorities said the latest confirmed case involved a 66-year-old woman with a chronic illness who lived in Kwai Tsing district. A preliminary investigation by the Centre for Health…
Hong Kong reported a new imported chikungunya fever case and another probable patient on Friday, bringing the number of confirmed cases to five in a week. Health authorities said the latest confirmed case involved a 66-year-old woman with a chronic illness who lived in Kwai Tsing district. A preliminary investigation by the Centre for Health…
The Hong Kong Observatory has pledged to further develop its artificial intelligence forecasting models to better predict typhoons and rainstorms after producing useful information before the record-breaking downpours earlier this week. He Yuheng, acting senior scientific officer at the Hong Kong Observatory, said on Friday that the models successfully predicted the development of a rainband…
Hong Kong confirmed three new cases of chikungunya fever on Wednesday, comprising a woman returning from Guangdong province’s Foshan and a father and son who had travelled to Bangladesh. The Centre for Health Protection on Wednesday said that it was investigating the three imported cases. Health authorities said the woman, 79, lived in Southern district…
Hong Kong should step up efforts to fight mosquitoes after the city recorded its second-longest black rainstorm warning, experts have warned, with data showing the breeding of the pest that can transmit chikungunya fever is “fairly extensive” in 70 per cent of the city’s surveyed areas. A black rainstorm warning lasted 11 hours and 15…
For the boss of Hong Kong’s largest retail chain – which operates Wellcome, Mannings and 7-Eleven – the key to retaining customers is simple: ensure stores match prices in Shenzhen. DFI Retail Group, formerly known as Dairy Farm, has increased the number of countries it imports from to 54 from 26 over the last year,…
Anti-mosquito measures remain the most effective way to combat chikungunya fever in Hong Kong, health authorities have said, as the vaccine is neither widely used worldwide nor approved locally. Dr Wong Hoi-kei, a senior medical and health officer from the Centre for Health Protection, also said on Monday that chikungunya fever was unlikely to become…