A woman in her sixties has died and her grandson has been injured after being struck by a car in Hong Kong on Friday. Police were alerted to the accident at 8.41am at No 32 Lee On Road, near the Shun Lee Disciplined Services Quarters. The elderly woman and the young boy were taken to…
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…
Hong Kong authorities have strengthened mosquito control measures at a hospital and the neighbourhood where the city’s first imported case of chikungunya fever since 2019 was reported, with residents also taking extra steps. The Housing Authority and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department stepped up anti-mosquito efforts at Kwun Tong’s On Tat Estate and United…
Twelve people have been injured after a bus and a truck collided in a Hong Kong residential district. Police said the double-decker bus crashed head-on with the truck on Lin Tak Road in Lam Tin at 9.27am on Wednesday, adding that drivers of both vehicles were among the injured, all of whom were taken to…
Hong Kong police have arrested the manager of a major fast-food outlet after a window pane fell from the first floor and landed on a Kwun Tong street, injuring two pedestrians. The pane, measuring two metres by 1.5 metres (6.6 feet by 4.9 feet), detached from the first-floor Cafe de Coral outlet in the Champion…
Hong Kong health authorities are investigating a carbon monoxide poisoning incident involving a 31-year-old man, who lost consciousness and sustained a head injury after smoking shisha at a Mong Kok bar. But Hubbly Bubbly, the bar in question, told the Post on Tuesday it stopped offering shisha in the middle of last year and saw…
Hong Kong health authorities are investigating the cases of two women who became unwell after receiving cosmetic botulinum toxin injections in Shenzhen, with one left in a critical condition. The Centre for Health Protection said on Wednesday that the two women were friends and had told authorities they received the injections at a private premises…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 78-year-old minibus driver after his vehicle struck and killed a 75-year-old pedestrian near a public housing estate in Ngau Tau Kok. The force said on Sunday it received a report at 9am about a red-topped minibus that had knocked down a man who had suddenly crossed the road outside…
Three passengers have been taken to hospital in Hong Kong after their vehicle hit a railing and flipped over in Kowloon Bay. The private vehicle was heading southbound along Kai Cheung Road at around 5.45pm on Wednesday when the male driver, 46, lost control while changing lanes, a source said. The silver-coloured vehicle hit an…