Category: Localities
Hong Kong continues to fall behind cervical cancer screening targets set by World Health Organization, NGO warns
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Family Planning Association of Hong Kong says number of tests carried out at its centres has dropped over past five years. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3218346/hong-kong-continues-fall-behind-cervical-cancer-screening-targets-set-world-health-organization-ngo?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreHong Kong teachers say pupils should not have been surprised by questions on former first lady Michelle Obama’s book extract used in English exam
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Teachers react after pupils turn their anger at too tough exam on former US first lady. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3218342/hong-kong-teachers-say-pupils-should-not-have-been-surprised-questions-former-first-lady-michelle?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreHong Kong doubles fines for litterbugs to HK$3,000 and quadruples penalty for unlawfully extending shop fronts and illegally dumping construction waste
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Proposal, presented in Chief Executive John Lee’s policy address last October, marks first increase in littering fine in almost two decades. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3218336/hong-kong-doubles-fines-litterbugs-hk3000-and-quadruples-penalty-unlawfully-extending-shop-fronts?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreUnused makeshift Covid-19 hospital in Hong Kong set to provide radiology services to 7,000 patients annually
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Makeshift hospital was built last April with Beijing’s help and had been left idle until the Hong Kong government handed it to the Hospital Authority in January. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3218331/unused-makeshift-covid-19-hospital-hong-kong-set-provide-radiology-services-7000-patients-annually?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreAbby Choi murder: subsidised housing purchase rules to be changed to close loophole allowing homeowners to buy properties after her former father-in-law found to own flat under scheme
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Public housing tenants who already own a property to be banned from buying subsidised homes, source says. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3218298/abby-choi-murder-subsidised-housing-purchase-rules-be-changed-close-loophole-allowing-homeowners-buy?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreHong Kong Bar Assoc. censures ex-lawmaker Tanya Chan over Umbrella Movement involvement
Hong Kong Free Press A former lawmaker and barrister, Tanya Chan, has been censured by Hong Kong’s Bar Association for bringing the profession into disrepute after being convicted three years ago over public nuisance offences related to the 2014 Umbrella Revolution. Tanya Chan. File Photo: Holmes Chan/HKFP. After receiving a complaint over the matter last…
Read MoreSlump in Hong Kong exports eases in March, with rebound in demand from United States, European Union helping to limit fall to 1.5 per cent
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Exports fell to HK$367.2 billion in March, while imports were down 0.6 per cent to HK$407.8 billion, Census and Statistics Department says. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3218293/slump-hong-kong-exports-eases-march-rebound-demand-united-states-european-union-helping-limit-fall?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreChina formally charges journalist with spying, media rights group says
Hong Kong Free Press Chinese authorities have formally charged a prominent journalist with spying, over a year after he was detained while having lunch with a Japanese diplomat, a media rights group said. Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu. Photo: Dong family/CPJ. Dong Yuyu, a senior columnist at the Communist Party newspaper Guangming Daily, was detained in…
Read MoreHong Kong mother battling depression admits to manslaughter charge for strangling 21-year-old mentally disabled son
Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. Judge calls for probation reports and medical assessments by psychiatric and psychological professionals ahead of sentencing. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3218266/hong-kong-mother-battling-depression-admits-manslaughter-charge-strangling-21-year-old-mentally?utm_source=rss_feed
Read MoreUnited Nations rights expert urges China to review, reconsider Hong Kong national security law
Hong Kong Free Press China should conduct a “review and reconsideration” of Hong Kong’s national security law to ensure it is “in compliance with China’s international human rights obligations,” A United Nations (UN) human rights expert has said. Margaret Satterthwaite, the UN’s special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, wrote to China’s permanent…
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