Particulates

30 May 2012

Chinese University researchers have called on the government to broaden its air quality review objectives, after a new study found that coarse particles pose a graver health threat than earlier...

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Struggling to breathe

28 Nov 2011

Hong Kong's air is among the worst in more than 500 cities. Only seven cities surveyed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) have a higher level of air pollution than Central. The district also...

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Diesel fumes key source of particles

14 Oct 2007

Vehicle emissions - especially diesel fumes - are a key source of respirable suspended particulates (RSPs), which affect the health of more people than any other air pollutant.

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Dust storm brings pollution respite

26 Jan 1999

Residents of Beijing choked on the sand, dust and dirt of a Mongolian windstorm at the weekend - but many were happy that it brought at least a brief respite from the city's clogging pollution.

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Answer to computer woe seen blowing in the wind

29 Sep 1998

Watch out - if your PC is suffering under dirty workstation conditions, surrounded by dusty air, something disastrous might occur.

Industry research has concluded that up to 70 per...

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Fumes over limit

15 Nov 1997

Air pollution exceeded acceptable levels last month as a result of a build-up of vehicle emissions and a lack of wind.

Mongkok was worst hit, with levels of nitrogen dioxide reaching...

2:40PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

3 comments

4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

4:27AM

Pollution experts to think small

Tiny particles of dust thought to be hazardous to health will come under the microscope in a ground-breaking research project on pollution.

Hong Kong's worsening air pollution is...

10:47AM

Pollution experts to think small

Tiny particles of dust thought to be hazardous to health will come under the microscope in a ground-breaking research project on pollution.

Hong Kong's worsening air pollution is...

10:47AM

Must have petrol scheme

THE article headlined, 'Builders also to blame for city's polluted air' (South China Morning Post, January 5), has completely mixed up the facts with the misquotation of my words.

4:54AM

Little success with filters

I REFER to a letter from Robert Wilson, of Discovery Bay, which appeared in the South China Morning Post, on February 22, rightly expressing his views on the adverse health effects caused by dust...

7:58AM

Behind the dust-up

I REFER to your coverage of the dust levels around Diocesan Girls' School in Jordan Road (Sunday Morning Post, December 11 and 18) and would like to make the following clarifications.

7:58PM

Traffic the main pollution culprit

HONG KONG's escalating traffic problem was the major cause of the worsening air pollution in November, according to the Government's monthly air quality index.

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