Four people have been injured in a Hong Kong tunnel after a car collided head-on with a taxi and flipped it over, leading another vehicle to crash into the cab from behind. Police received a report at 4.04am on Monday and said the driver of the car which had hit the cab fled the scene…
A 19-year-old Hong Kong man leapt fatally from a building shortly after reporting the death of his grandfather and father, who were found in their village home on Tuesday evening with stab wounds inflicted by sharp objects. Police on Wednesday said they had classified the two cases as murder and suicide and were looking into…
Hong Kong conservation authorities have activated a contingency plan to rescue a stranded whale in Lantau waters, urging the public and vessels to avoid getting close to the mammal. The whale is five to six metres long with wounds on its body, according to a preliminary assessment by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department. The…
A Hong Kong construction worker has been found guilty of manslaughter for killing his girlfriend and her two children, after a court acquitted him of the more serious crime of murder. But a High Court judge on Thursday warned Iu Wai-cheung, who slashed the mother more than 100 times, that his sentence would not be…
Melioidosis has returned to the public spotlight after health authorities confirmed the disease caused the death of nine monkeys at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens. The disease, caused by the Burkholderia pseudomallei bacterium, is endemic to the city, with a previous outbreak involving dozens of cases in Sham Shui Po in 2022. The…
Another 12 patients suffering from a potentially deadly bacterial infection have tested positive for a strain linked to contact with raw freshwater fish, bringing the most recent cluster in Hong Kong to 91 cases. The Centre for Health Protection said on Friday that it had concluded testing and analysis on freshwater fish and environmental samples…
Another 12 patients suffering from a potentially deadly bacterial infection have tested positive for a strain linked to contact with raw freshwater fish, bringing the most recent cluster in Hong Kong to 91 cases. The Centre for Health Protection said on Friday that it had concluded testing and analysis on freshwater fish and environmental samples…