A 20-year-old man was injured after a basketball post collapsed and struck him while he was playing with a friend at a court near a Hong Kong public housing estate. Police received a report of the incident at Kau Pui Lung Road Playground, located near Lok Man Sun Chuen estate in To Kwa Wan, at…
Emergency services at Hong Kong’s public hospitals have operated smoothly on the first day of the new year despite raising fees for non-urgent cases, but some patients from minority groups said they were unaware of the changes. Starting on Thursday, New Year’s Day of 2026, patients visiting accident and emergency rooms at Hong Kong public…
A robbery suspect escaped police custody barefoot while being escorted for an X-ray scan at a hospital in Hong Kong, but he was rearrested hours later after stealing from a cabby while taxi hopping, the Post has learned. The 35-year-old suspect, surnamed Lam, was receiving stomach cancer treatment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Jordan at…
Hong Kong’s much-awaited Yau Ma Tei section of the Central Kowloon Bypass is undergoing final testing before its debut on December 21, authorities have said, adding that a core challenge has been tunnelling beneath 240 structures in the area. The new 4.7km (7.56-mile) transport corridor in Kowloon, which includes a 3.9km three-lane, two-way tunnel linking…
Two Hong Kong construction workers suffered injuries, including a fractured leg, after a temporary lift they were using to transport goods plunged from a height of 10 metres (33 feet) on Saturday. Police said that they received a report at 1.32pm about a pair of workers who were suspected to be trapped in a temporary…
A Hong Kong father who allegedly killed his two young children before a failed suicide attempt last month is suffering from depression, a court has heard. Salesman Chen Guocheng, 40, appeared in Kowloon City Court for the first time on Friday to face two counts of murder, as prosecutors asked for a 12-week adjournment to…
Two young children have died after being found unconscious with their father in a flat in Hong Kong’s Yau Ma Tei, where police also seized a knife. The case came to light at around 3.15pm on Wednesday when the mother, 40, contacted authorities after receiving a call from a tuition centre about her eight-year-old son’s…
Hong Kong police have launched an investigation after a man and his two young children were found unconscious in a flat in Yau Ma Tei, with a knife found at the scene. The case came to light at around 3.15pm on Wednesday when a mother contacted authorities after receiving a call from a tuition centre…
A woman has been arrested for allegedly stabbing her ex-boyfriend with a 30cm-long sashimi knife at a Hong Kong restaurant during an argument. The suspect, surnamed Cheung, 44, had brought her own knife and was arrested on suspicion of wounding, police said on Sunday. The victim, surnamed Lee, 43, sustained wounds to his neck, abdomen…
Four members of a family, including a six-year-old boy, were rushed to hospital after being pulled from a burning flat in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district late on Thursday. Firefighters found three of them – a man in his eighties, one in his forties and the boy – unconscious in the flat in an old…