Lilian Goh

11 Nov 2007

The government might table a proposal in the Legislative Council next year to raise the taxi flagfall by HK$1.

Speaking on a radio show yesterday, Eva Cheng Yu-wah, the secretary...

10:36AM

4 Oct 2007

About 5,000 retirees are expected to take lessons at 32 'senior academies' in a pilot scheme funded by the Elderly Commission.

6:55AM

Home-alone alarm after boy badly hurt in blaze

23 Sep 2007

Firemen rescued a three-year-old boy locked in a flat which caught fire in Tai Kok Tsui yesterday, prompting fresh concern about the plight of home-alone children in Hong Kong.

5:57AM

College deceived us, say students

23 Sep 2007

Police have received 87 reports from people claiming to have been deceived by English Language College, which closed on Friday after 20 years following its disqualification from the Continuing...

5:57AM

Refund for mainland women 'too small'

21 Sep 2007

The Hospital Authority board has endorsed a proposal by which mainland women who have prepaid HK$39,000 for an obstetric package in public hospitals can get a refund of HK$20,000 if the pregnancy...

5:47AM

Partial refund of fee proposed for mainlanders who miscarry

20 Sep 2007

The Hospital Authority has proposed refunding about half of the HK$39,000 obstetric fee paid by mainland women who book a public bed for delivery but later suffer miscarriages.

The...

5:32AM

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Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

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4:27AM

Girl, 5, almost loses finger ice skating

A five-year-old girl's little finger was almost sliced off when she fell on an ice-skating rink and was run over by another skater.

The accident happened at 11.30am while she was...

10:44PM

Bloody police photo shocks residents

Residents of a housing estate in Aberdeen were shocked when police paid them a nighttime visit, showing them a picture of a dead woman's bloodied face and asking if they knew her.

9:59PM

Doctor meets suicide patient's family

A doctor, who was leading the treatment of a 50-year-old man who jumped to his death at Princess Margaret Hospital on Monday night, met the bereaved family yesterday to explain how the man was...

6:36PM

Cry for help for disabled children

Suicide bid highlights desperation

Parents of severely mentally handicapped youngsters have implored the government to heed their children's desperate need for government-subsidised...

5:53PM

Post-op death to be examined

The Princess Margaret Hospital will set up an independent panel to investigate the death of a 74-year-old woman a day after an operation to fix a broken leg bone.

But the hospital...

3:06PM

Pork prices set to fall with deal to free up pig imports

Governments move to stabilise live-hog supplies to HK

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