https://www.scmp.com/rss/309207/feed Michelle Wong is a senior communications manager at the Institute for the Environment at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Air quality is a hot topic of discussion among global leaders as a threat to quality of life, including in Hong Kong. While the effects of air pollution may not be immediately visible, the long-term public health concerns and fatalities associated with poor air quality are alarming. Then again, they bring into focus the efforts currently in place to manage the problem, and the potential to share these efforts across the Greater Bay Area, in light of President Xi Jinping’s national strategy on... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132586/shenzhen-and-hong-kong-show-how-intercity-alliances-can?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132586/shenzhen-and-hong-kong-show-how-intercity-alliances-can?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Feb 2018 05:01:33 +0000 The Mong Kok pedestrian precinct has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The attempted prosecution of street buskers SMS was one and the swearing incident involving primary school teacher Alpais Lam Wai-sze was another. Both cases posed the same problem to residents - noise pollution. Noise is all around us in Hong Kong. Over 6,000 such complaints were made last year, second only to the more than 13,000 complaints about air pollution. A joint survey by the Environmental Protection... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1298597/hear-hong-kongs-cry-relief-noise-pollution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1298597/hear-hong-kongs-cry-relief-noise-pollution?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000