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Rachel Leung
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Daisy Ngan’s father left his three children to fend for themselves for months at a time with just HK$1,000 for food and bills, now the Buddhist Fat Ho Memorial College student is a finalist in the best improved category at Student of the Year awards.

Late creative maestro is best known for Paris’s Louvre Pyramid, but to trace his Chinese roots, which he never lost despite more than 60 years in the US, one has to return to city’s skyline.

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Cleaners have started to hose down Yau Oi Estate in Tuen Mun – where a 74-year-old man infected with the rat hepatitis E virus, and who later died in hospital, had lived.

Figures released by the Education Bureau show 39 of 72 schools covered by the scheme have asked for permission to raise charges, ranging from 2.8 per cent to 19.2 per cent.

The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, created by debris from Halley’s Comet, is expected to be at its brightest on Monday night but Hong Kong is in for gloomy weather.

A survey by the World Green Organisation also found that Hong Kong residents lacked awareness on sustainability, with two-thirds of respondents mistakenly thinking paper towels could be recycled.

The German Swiss International School has acknowledged that an article of the school board’s regulations which states that directors must speak and write German is outdated.

Conservation department vows to step up the fight against people who feed the city’s feral animals. They are also expanding the team that deals with sightings of the pigs, which are venturing more regularly into urban areas.

Centre for Health Protection tightens controls around vaccination service after results of blood tests come back showing it may only need 9,800 doses of vaccine.

The pair – Steve Ku and Wu Aoyu – are using real-time human traffic flow technology in a bid to cut waiting times at cafeterias, bus stops and even the library.