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A government-appointed task force has proposed introducing minimum living standards for Hong Kong’s notorious subdivided flats as part of government efforts to phase out “low-quality” units in a city with some of the world’s least affordable housing. Chief Executive John Lee, who introduced the plan in his last Policy Address, received the taskforce’s report on Thursday. He said he had proposed additional items based on recent consultation findings, and asked for a further report to be submitted in a month. “I hope to build a system to eradicate substandard subdivided flats in Hong Kong and im...
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A team from Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) has visited Kuala Lumpur to try to recruit Malaysian nurses in hopes of easing a significant manpower shortage in Hong Kong’s public hospitals, with 2,559 nurses resigning or retiring last year. The authority hosted recruitment briefing sessions on Monday and Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, introducing a new policy to allow non-locally trained nurses to work in Hong Kong, according to a statement on Wednesday. “The response was very positive, with many participants expressing interest in coming to Hong Kong for career development,” Simon Tang, the HK’s ...
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Hong Kong’s second largest public housing provider has announced a 10 per cent rent rise as it faces a rising repair bill for ageing estates. The Hong Kong Housing Society (HKHS), an independent and non-profit organisation which operates 20 rental estates citywide, announced on Wednesday it had approved the increase. “Well-off tenants” – those whose income and assets exceeded certain thresholds – will start paying the new rents in October, while the others will be exempt until January. The new measures will see tenants in Group A estates, which cater to low-income families, pay an extra HK$230...
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Panda-themed meals could give Hong Kong’s struggling restaurant industry a leg up, an industry veteran has said, as he lamented the hundreds of restaurant closures over recent months. Hong Kong Federation of Restaurants and Related Trades President Simon Wong told Metro Radio on Tuesday that the restaurant industry could ride on what has been dubbed a “panda economy” — a strategy floated by government officials after the city saw the birth of giant panda twins last week. Hong Kong is also expecting a pair of adult pandas from mainland China to be delivered this National Day, on October 1. Wong...
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Two concrete slabs fell from the ceiling of a Hong Kong public hospital’s geriatric ward on Monday night, with no injuries reported. It marks the latest in a series of safety incidents at the city’s public hospitals. The two pieces of concrete, measuring approximately 20 centimetres in length, 30 centimetres in width, and three centimetres in thickness, fell along with the false ceiling in an integrated medical and geriatric male ward at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital at around 8.15 pm. Inspections and repairs“Maintenance staff immediately arranged emergency repairs. No patients or s...
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More than 60 per cent of Hong Kong workers have expressed their opposition to importing more labour to ease widespread manpower crunches, citing concerns about employment prospects and further pay cuts, a survey has found. Nearly 30 per cent of 3,288 union members interviewed in July reported having had their pay docked, with 48 per cent saying they were worried about employment prospects under government labour importation schemes, according to a survey by the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (FTU). Citing its findings, the city’s largest labour union on Sunday called on the government to...
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Hong Kong writer was born with muscular myopathy, a condition that weakens her muscles and forces her to use a wheelchair for most daily activities. The condition can be life-threatening, particularly during childhood. Her muscular weakness would frequently escalate a common flu into pneumonia because she struggled to breathe or cough properly. At the age of eight, one of her lungs collapsed, forcing Nesar to stay in hospital for four months. It was during this time, when she buried her head in books, that she found solace in stories about her Islamic faith. Despite living with physical barrie...
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A group representing Hong Kong architects has appealed to the government to speed up capital works projects and outsource more work to compensate for a dearth of jobs and widespread layoffs in the construction sector. “The local architectural practices are undoubtedly facing an extremely difficult time and some of them are already at the tipping point of their survival battle,” chairman of the Association of Architectural Practices (AAP) Dennis Lau wrote in a letter to Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn. In a reply to HKFP, the bureau said the government would continue to allocate resou...
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A Hong Kong woman has been arrested for animal cruelty after police found 32 cats and one dog in her public housing flat, which reportedly measured just 200 square feet. Police arrived at the flat at midnight on Wednesday after receiving complaints of a smell and broke into the unit on the Fu Shin Estate in Tai Po. “We found 32 cats and one dog in the unit. Among them, five cats have poor health conditions, suspected of being maltreated, ” police said in a statement. A cat’s body was also found. Police later arrested the 41-year-old female tenant, who is being detained for investigations. The ...
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Hong Kong’s High Court has granted an application for a legal challenge against environmental authorities’ approval of a report into the development of a large-scale technology hub. Critics have said the San Tin Technopole will destroy swathes of valuable ecosystems near the city’s border with mainland China. The legal bid was launched earlier this month by registered social worker and the convenor of the green group Save Lantau Alliance Eddie Tse, who sought to challenge the decision to greenlight the environmental impact assessment (EIA) into the San Tin Technopole development. According to ...
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