Hong Kong health authorities should have announced the death of a man who contracted a rare infection following a monkey attack sooner, experts have said, arguing more prompt announcements could raise public awareness and encourage early treatment. The Centre for Health Protection revealed on Thursday in its Communicable Diseases Watch, an online monthly publication, that…
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Temperatures in many parts of Hong Kong fell to about 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) on Sunday morning, with the Observatory issuing a cold weather warning. The city’s weather forecaster issued the warning at…
Fire and wind are certain to shape the future of Los Angeles as the world warms. Los Angeles had started taking steps to prepare. But there are lessons it can learn from other cities adapting to extreme fire weather: managing yards; taking care of neighbors; making it easier to get out of harm’s way. One…
When the rioters came for Spellow Library, they used the nonfiction section as kindling. Deborah Moore, then the library’s manager, arrived the next morning to find that the shelves and couches recently purchased as part of a refurbishment project had been stacked up to build a pyre on the ground floor. The books that had…
Homeless people sought temporary shelter overnight as temperatures fell in Hong Kong on Sunday night, although some street sleepers were left shivering outdoors. The Home Affairs Department opened 18 temporary shelters in various districts for people in need, as the Observatory issued a cold weather warning in the morning. The shelters, which offer mattresses, blankets…
Homeless people sought temporary shelter overnight as temperatures fell in Hong Kong on Sunday night, although some street sleepers were left shivering outdoors. The Home Affairs Department opened 18 temporary shelters in various districts for people in need, as the Observatory issued a cold weather warning in the morning. The shelters, which offer mattresses, blankets…
At the height of the Los Angeles County wildfires, atmospheric concentrations of lead, a neurotoxin, reached 100 times average levels even miles from the flames, according to early detailed measurements obtained by The New York Times. Levels of chlorine, which is also toxic at low concentrations, reached 40 times the average. The spiking levels underscore…
It is no coincidence that Nansha, a district in Guangdong province’s capital city of Guangzhou, chose to showcase China’s advances in drones, electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and unmanned boat technology during the week-long National Day holiday. In particular, a demonstration by an EH216-S – a passenger-carrying pilotless eVTOL aircraft manufactured by the…