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’s Pok Fu Lam neighbourhood was hit by heavy downpours in the early hours of Tuesday, with rainwater flooding a major thoroughfare and a public hospital, once forcing it to divert patients to other institutions. The Hospital Authority said on Tuesday the severe flooding on some roads within the Queen Mary Hospital compound had…
President Donald Trump has made good on his pledge to sue over The Wall Street Journal’s Thursday report that Trump wrote a “bawdy” letter to Jeffrey Epstein on his 50th birthday. Trump on Friday filed suit against Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones, the CEO of News Corp, Robert Thomson, and Khadeeja Safdar and Joseph Palazzolo, both…
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) plans to reduce the size of a development project by 15 per cent following a public backlash, leaving most of a Pok Fu Lam green belt untouched, the Post has learned. A source said on Monday that the university was considering building on a residential plot nearby. The revised…
A consortium of developers, led by New World Development (NWD), raked in HK$1.3 billion (US$166 million) from the sale of 24 luxury units in Hong Kong’s Southern district, as wealthy buyers take advantage of a market downturn to acquire prized assets. On Friday, a 1,706 sq ft, four-bedroom unit in Deep Water Pavilia, a 447-unit…
Autonomous driving still has more doubters than backers in Hong Kong, but the city is now taking steps that could get more people on board with the technology. Trial runs set for the next five months are worth supporting to develop driverless services. After allowing passenger trials on routes within the airport island, the government…
More than 682,000 mainland Chinese visitors entered Hong Kong during the first three days of the “golden week” holiday, with arrivals on Friday setting a new post-pandemic record, the finance chief has revealed, as he pledged to strengthen infrastructure to make every part of the city a tourist destination. A total of 682,114 mainland visitors…