Hong Kong rejects activist’s bid for legal aid to mount challenge over IT hub
[South China Morning Post] - 01/10/2025
Legal Aid Department rejects Eddie Tse’s application, hindering his judicial review attempt against government push for San Tin Technopole.
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China says mpox outbreak ‘effectively handled’ after recording 5 cases of new strain
China said on Thursday it had recorded five cases of a new mpox strain, but that the “outbreak has been effectively (…)
[HKFP] - 10/01/2025
Hong Kong admits first patient via cross-border ambulance pilot scheme
Patient, 67, transferred from the University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen Hospital in Futian to Tuen Mun Hospital.
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Hong Kong expands probe after more Cathay passengers on Nepal flights fall ill
Centre for Health Protection investigating two food poisoning cases involving 36 passengers who arrived from (…)
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025
Hong Kong former lawmaker and prison rights activist Shiu Ka-chun dies at 55
Former Hong Kong lawmaker and prison rights activists Shiu Ka-chun has died at 55, following a cancer diagnosis that (…)
[HKFP] - 10/01/2025
'Govt to release report on care teams after deal ends'
Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Alice Mak, on Friday said the government would publish a comprehensive report (…)
[RTHK] - 10/01/2025
Hongkongers report tremors after quake near Shanwei
The Observatory (HKO) on Friday said a 4.2 magnitude earthquake stuck the sea south of Guangdong. The forecaster (…)
[RTHK] - 10/01/2025
Patient transferred to HK using cross-border ambulance
A 67-year-old patient was transferred from the Greater Bay Area (GBA) to Tuen Mun Hospital on Friday, the first case (…)
[RTHK] - 10/01/2025
Hong Kong social worker denied legal aid for challenge against gov’t approval of tech hub development
A Hong Kong social worker has been denied legal aid for a challenge against authorities’ approval of a tech hub (…)
[HKFP] - 10/01/2025
PolyU receives nearly HK$92mil in research funding
Polytechnic University (PolyU) on Friday said that artificial intelligence, cancer treatment and innovative (…)
[RTHK] - 10/01/2025
Driver killed in Kowloon Bay taxi crash
A taxi driver was killed in a crash in Kowloon Bay this morning. Police received a call at around 5am that a taxi (…)
[RTHK] - 10/01/2025
Hong Kong health officials take aim at schools not joining flu jab drive
Official urges members of the public to get vaccinated as surveillance data shows Hong Kong has entered the flu season.
[South China Morning Post] - 10/01/2025