https://www.scmp.com/rss/519809/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Dave Besseling Dave Besseling “A plastics factory worker, Chan Wai-tak, was stabbed to death and his friend seriously injured when they were attacked by a group of youths in Wah Fu Estate, Aberdeen, last night,” reported the South China Morning Post on May 10, 1980. “The injured youth, Lee Man-ching (18), told detectives from his Queen Mary Hospital bed that he and Chan (15 ½), were standing near a building chatting when a group of youths passed by and accused the two of staring at them. “He said there was an exchange of... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3309674/when-teenager-was-stabbed-death-fork-over-alleged-stare?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3309674/when-teenager-was-stabbed-death-fork-over-alleged-stare?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 May 2025 00:00:09 +0000 Vivian Au Vivian Au Researchers from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) aim to recruit 3,000 patients to help improve the accuracy of a tool powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and designed to predict the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, the first of its kind in the city. The university’s medical school announced the coming recruitment round for its “Heartwise” study on Sunday, with Clinical Professor Yiu Kai-hang hoping for improved outcomes for patients. “The findings have the potential to improve... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279507/hong-kong-team-enrol-3000-patients-improve-ai-tool-targeting-cardiovascular-disease?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3279507/hong-kong-team-enrol-3000-patients-improve-ai-tool-targeting-cardiovascular-disease?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:22:06 +0000 An Indian doctor who was acquitted in an indecent assault case in Hong Kong seven years ago has reportedly been arrested in the country over alleged corruption uncovered during an investigation into the rape and murder of a student at a hospital. Indian media reported Dr Sandip Ghosh, who is believed to have only worked in Hong Kong for a few days, was arrested last week by the country’s Central Bureau of Investigation on suspicion of corruption linked to his tenure as a principal of RG Kar... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3277983/doctor-cleared-hong-kong-case-held-india-amid-rape-murder-probe-worked-few-days-city?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3277983/doctor-cleared-hong-kong-case-held-india-amid-rape-murder-probe-worked-few-days-city?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:54:56 +0000 A woman died and three others were injured in a fire that broke out in a building in an area well known for its nightlife in Hong Kong on Monday night. The fire started in a flat at No 9 on Gough Street at Shun King Building in the SoHo area of Sheung Wan at about 10.20pm. Thick smoke was seen pouring out of the unit, prompting nearby residents to call police. Firefighters battled the blaze with a water jet hose and were equipped with a breathing apparatus. Emergency personnel later found an... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3277841/woman-dies-3-others-injured-fire-breaks-out-hong-kongs-soho?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3277841/woman-dies-3-others-injured-fire-breaks-out-hong-kongs-soho?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:36:57 +0000 A tourist has said a fall at a Hong Kong trampoline park left her needing to have a kidney removed, with a lawmaker urging authorities to launch an investigation into the incident and regulate such venues. The woman, a mother of two who only identified herself as Lee, said on Tuesday that her right kidney was “shattered” and her life “was at stake” after she fell and struck the edge of a foam pool while visiting Ryze Ultimate Trampoline Park on June 7 of last year. She accused the operator of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3277082/hong-kong-officials-urged-probe-trampoline-park-after-tourist-falls-and-loses-kidney?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3277082/hong-kong-officials-urged-probe-trampoline-park-after-tourist-falls-and-loses-kidney?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:05:12 +0000 Danny Mok Danny Mok Wild boars were at the centre of two car accidents in Hong Kong’s Southern district on the weekend, with one of the animals dying after being hit and two drivers suffering injuries. Police said a taxi driver was forced to brake suddenly on Saturday at 8.05pm when he saw a boar on Aberdeen Praya Road. A cabby behind the first taxi was unable to stop in time and slammed into the rear of the vehicle. The two drivers, aged 48 and 53, were taken to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam for treatment of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3276763/2-hong-kong-taxi-drivers-injured-1-wild-boar-killed-separate-road-accidents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3276763/2-hong-kong-taxi-drivers-injured-1-wild-boar-killed-separate-road-accidents?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Sep 2024 10:51:10 +0000 Hong Kong liver cancer patients can receive a painless treatment that uses ultrasound waves to destroy cancerous tissue after the Li Ka Shing Foundation donated Asia’s first cutting-edge, non-invasive device to the city’s oldest university. The University of Hong Kong’s Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine unveiled the new histotripsy treatment during a press event at Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam on Tuesday. The event also featured an appearance via live video link by business magnate Li... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3276100/university-hong-kong-partners-hospital-offer-non-invasive-liver-cancer-treatment?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3276100/university-hong-kong-partners-hospital-offer-non-invasive-liver-cancer-treatment?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:18:15 +0000 “A weekend outing in Stanley yesterday turned into a death brawl as two groups of ‘midnight picnickers’ fought with barbecue forks over a barbecue pit resulting in one dead and two injured,” reported the South China Morning Post on August 30, 1982. “The two groups, totalling about 20 people, argued over a pit shortly after 1am at the pier near the Hong Kong Sea School. “Heated words were exchanged and the fight started when one group made abusive remarks at some of the women in the other group.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3275904/heated-argument-time-hong-kong-barbecue-turned-deadly-midnight-picnickers-fought-forks?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3275904/heated-argument-time-hong-kong-barbecue-turned-deadly-midnight-picnickers-fought-forks?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:45:08 +0000 “The three foreign prisoners who escaped from the Chi Ma Wan open prison last Sunday morning were all re-captured by combined detectives and Village Penetration Patrols of the Marine Police yesterday,” reported the South China Morning Post on Wednesday, August 19, 1970. “The trio were found suffering from insect bites and minor injuries received during their attempted escape.” The three, serving a four-year sentence for possessing forged banknotes, “appeared exhausted and hungry when found by... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3275046/when-3-prisoners-escaped-hong-kong-jail-intrepid-forgers-were-recaptured-after-daring-1970-plot?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3275046/when-3-prisoners-escaped-hong-kong-jail-intrepid-forgers-were-recaptured-after-daring-1970-plot?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:45:09 +0000 Hong Kong police have arrested a tram driver in connection with a traffic accident that left a three-year-old girl dead and three other pedestrians injured, including her sister and grandfather. Police said on Thursday that they had arrested the man, 48, for dangerous driving causing death and detained him for inquiries over the accident in Western district. The eastbound tram knocked down the girl, her six-year-old sister, their grandfather, 66, and the family’s domestic helper, 34, outside... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3274546/hong-kong-man-and-two-girls-3-and-6-struck-tram-and-get-trapped-underneath-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3274546/hong-kong-man-and-two-girls-3-and-6-struck-tram-and-get-trapped-underneath-it?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:13:09 +0000 A taxi driver, 77, and his passenger were injured after the vehicle crashed into a lamp post in Hong Kong’s Admiralty, disrupting tram services and two traffic lanes during the morning rush hour on Thursday. The taxi was travelling west on Queensway outside Pacific Place shopping centre at around 9am when it lost control and swerved right. The vehicle ran into the railing separating car lanes and tram tracks before ramming into the lamp post and severely denting its bonnet. Engine components and... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3273689/hong-kong-taxi-driver-77-passenger-injured-after-crashing-lamp-post-admiralty?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3273689/hong-kong-taxi-driver-77-passenger-injured-after-crashing-lamp-post-admiralty?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Aug 2024 05:58:23 +0000 A 50-year-old Hong Kong man with severe heart failure urgently needs a life-saving transplant as health authorities appeal for city organ donations and plan to ask for help from mainland China. The Hospital Authority on Wednesday said that Chan Wai-ho’s heart function was down to just 20 per cent and that he was in a critical condition in Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam. “I hope there is a kind person who could help me,” Chan said in a voice recording released to the media. “No matter what the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3272678/hong-kong-plea-more-organ-donations-man-heart-failure-waits-gift-life?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3272678/hong-kong-plea-more-organ-donations-man-heart-failure-waits-gift-life?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:52:36 +0000 A woman died and her businessman husband was fighting for his life after he allegedly set fire to their flat in an upmarket area of Hong Kong to kill himself and his wife on Wednesday. Firefighters broke into the flat and found the woman in the living room and the man in the bathroom. The woman had serious burns all over her body and the man had burns to his hands and face. The Fire Services Department said neither had a pulse or were breathing when found. The couple were rushed to Queen Mary... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3271674/2-hong-kong-residents-rescued-smoke-filled-flat-mid-levels-and-rushed-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3271674/2-hong-kong-residents-rescued-smoke-filled-flat-mid-levels-and-rushed-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jul 2024 06:53:48 +0000 This article was first published on July 24, 1994 Three die in landslip A man and his nine-year-old daughter were among three people killed on July 23, 1994 when a retaining wall below one of Hong Kong’s biggest housing estates collapsed on to a busy footpath. Emergency services immediately evacuated 2,000 families from the 20-year-old, 21-storey Kwun Lung Lau Estate building in Smithfield Road, Kennedy Town, fearing that it might collapse. Also killed was another man, 26-year-old Ng Yuk-wing.... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3271489/landslip-hong-kongs-kennedy-town-kills-3-people-1994-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3271489/landslip-hong-kongs-kennedy-town-kills-3-people-1994-scmp-archive?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Jul 2024 04:30:09 +0000 A former Post data specialist has died in a stand-up paddling accident in the waters off Lamma Island. Jude Law Kai-yiu, who was employed by the Post from 2017 to 2019 as a growth specialist, was found unconscious at the Lamma Power Station Beach at around 9pm Saturday. He was later sent to Queen Mary Hospital, where he was certified dead at around 10.30pm. Police said initial investigations suggested the 30-year-old Law had accidentally drowned while engaging in water activities. An autopsy... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3270933/former-post-data-specialist-dies-stand-paddleboarding-accident-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3270933/former-post-data-specialist-dies-stand-paddleboarding-accident-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jul 2024 07:53:54 +0000 [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] For Yew Chung International School of Hong Kong (YCIS Hong Kong), there was every reason to celebrate when the results of this year’s International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) were announced.   Senior students graduating in the 2024 cohort distinguished themselves by achieving excellent scores, paving the way to places at some of the world’s leading universities and bright futures in diverse fields of... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/ycis-ib-results/article/3269112/ycis-celebrates-remarkable-ib-results-2024-cohort-two-perfect-scorers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/ycis-ib-results/article/3269112/ycis-celebrates-remarkable-ib-results-2024-cohort-two-perfect-scorers?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Jul 2024 09:33:15 +0000 A debate in the legislature on raising Hong Kong’s fertility rate turned emotional between the health minister and a female lawmaker on Thursday, after the top official suggested that a frozen seed may not grow on “soil” that deteriorates with age. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau also said that he hoped young people would balance their family and career by getting married and having children at an earlier age. Lo was addressing a motion on policies to support assisted reproduction. Lawmaker... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3267417/freeze-womens-eggs-soil-may-be-bad-health-minister-says-during-fertility-debate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3267417/freeze-womens-eggs-soil-may-be-bad-health-minister-says-during-fertility-debate?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:48:11 +0000 A leading infectious disease expert from Hong Kong has told how his childhood fascination with animals and even astronomy helped him become a top microbiologist, as he looks back on his life in a soon-to-be-released autobiography. My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey is to be published in mid-July, with the English-language book delving into the life of Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, 67, covering his early years all the way up to his work as a government adviser during the Covid-19... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3266807/hong-kongs-yuen-kwok-yung-shares-his-journey-becoming-top-disease-expert-new-book?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3266807/hong-kongs-yuen-kwok-yung-shares-his-journey-becoming-top-disease-expert-new-book?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jun 2024 01:00:23 +0000 A Hong Kong taxi hit a female pedestrian and slammed into railings in Central on Sunday morning, causing the woman to fall down a near-vertical drop and land on the street below while the vehicle was left balancing precariously over the edge above. Police arrested the 44-year-old cabby on suspicion of dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm. The force said it received a report of a crash at around 10.40am, with a taxi hitting and damaging part of a four-metre-long railing and kerb on... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3265937/hong-kong-taxi-left-dangling-over-steep-drop-after-crash-passer-falls-road-below?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3265937/hong-kong-taxi-left-dangling-over-steep-drop-after-crash-passer-falls-road-below?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Jun 2024 05:11:23 +0000 A 12-year-old Hong Kong girl was injured while trying to intervene when her father allegedly attacked her mother with a knife at home early on Sunday. Police arrested the man, 58, after he allegedly attacked his wife, 53, at around 5am at their home on Peel Street, Central. It was understood that the man was drinking alone at around 3am, when his wife and two daughters, aged 12 and 14, returned to their home, transitional housing for those waiting for a public flat for a few years. The man... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3264155/hong-kong-girl-12-hurt-while-trying-stop-father-during-alleged-knife-attack-mother-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3264155/hong-kong-girl-12-hurt-while-trying-stop-father-during-alleged-knife-attack-mother-home?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 May 2024 09:09:45 +0000 A plan to build a large innovation research hub at Hong Kong’s oldest university has encountered strong opposition from more than 3,000 residents, who have called for it to be relocated and warned of mounting a legal challenge. The residents said the project would require the removal of thousands of trees and worsen traffic in Pok Fu Lam, while also complaining about a lack of public consultation from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). “Building a global innovation centre is a great idea and all... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3264106/residents-southern-hong-kong-warn-legal-action-if-university-builds-research-hub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3264106/residents-southern-hong-kong-warn-legal-action-if-university-builds-research-hub?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 May 2024 01:00:14 +0000 “Fifty-one-year-old Mr Wong Lu-ming was sitting back in his front stall seat inside the Hoover Theatre, bursting into laughter at the comic characters of a film satirising the police, ‘Supremo’, when a bomb went off, making him feel that the film screen had exploded in his face,” reported the South China Morning Post on June 1, 1974. “Shocked and dazed by a thunderous boom and a ball of fire, the next thing he knew he was taking part in a stampede out of the Causeway Bay theatre, into which he... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3263877/when-bomb-exploded-hong-kong-cinema-injuring-11-and-sending-400-stampeding-out-building?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3263877/when-bomb-exploded-hong-kong-cinema-injuring-11-and-sending-400-stampeding-out-building?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 May 2024 03:12:38 +0000 The plight of a hepatitis B patient who became seriously ill after a medical blunder and died despite two liver transplants touched the hearts of Hong Kong people. The death of Tang Kwai-sze in 2017 also raised many questions concerning the state of the public health system. A coroner’s inquest concluded last week, with a jury returning a verdict of death by misadventure. Lessons need to be learned so that similar tragedies do not occur. Tang was treated for kidney disease at United Christian... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3262703/death-hong-kong-hepatitis-b-sufferer-reminder-put-patient-safety-first?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/hong-kong-opinion/article/3262703/death-hong-kong-hepatitis-b-sufferer-reminder-put-patient-safety-first?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 May 2024 23:45:10 +0000 A Hong Kong worker has fallen from a two-metre-high (6.6 feet) stage and lost consciousness while dismantling the site that Taiwanese band Mayday used for its final concert at the Central harbourfront. Police said they were alerted to the incident at 5am on Friday. Preliminary investigations showed the 20-year-old worker lost his footing and fell from the stage, which measured about two metres in height, a police spokesman said. The unconscious worker was taken to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3262108/hong-kong-worker-falls-2-metre-high-stage-while-dismantling-taiwanese-band-maydays-concert-site?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3262108/hong-kong-worker-falls-2-metre-high-stage-while-dismantling-taiwanese-band-maydays-concert-site?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 May 2024 02:34:45 +0000 This is the 24th instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades. The late Lydia Sum Tin-ha (also known as Lydia Shum) was a Hong Kong comedian, actress and emcee whose presence in the city’s entertainment industry influenced three generations. Known for her boisterous laugh, black-framed glasses and plump figure, the actress first gained mainstream recognition with her appearances on the variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight, after which she became... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3261951/life-hong-kongs-happy-fruit-lydia-sum-comedian-actress-and-emcee-fei-fei-did-everything-heart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3261951/life-hong-kongs-happy-fruit-lydia-sum-comedian-actress-and-emcee-fei-fei-did-everything-heart?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 May 2024 23:15:16 +0000 A jury has ruled the death of a woman with kidney disease who developed serious liver problems after hospital treatment seven years ago was “misadventure” and a coroner told her daughter to channel the love she felt for her mother into “filling the void she has left”. Coroner Monica Chow Wai-choo was speaking on Tuesday after a five-strong jury voted four to one for a death by misadventure verdict in the case of Tang Kwai-sze, 44, who, also carried hepatitis B, and who died on August 26, 2017 at... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3261785/hong-kong-jury-death-misadventure-verdict-after-kidney-disease-patient-died-liver-failure-when?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3261785/hong-kong-jury-death-misadventure-verdict-after-kidney-disease-patient-died-liver-failure-when?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 May 2024 13:57:52 +0000 Family, friends and fellow residents have bid farewell to an eight-year-old Hong Kong girl who died in a vegetative state after a blood transfusion was delayed during an operation four years ago. The family of Chau Tin-yu, who died on March 10, held a vigil for her on Saturday at the Diamond Hill Funeral Parlour, before her cremation the next day. Her father, Eddie Chau, expressed gratitude to visitors who offered their condolences to his family, and said he would try to move on from the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3259764/farewell-tin-yu-family-friends-bid-farewell-hong-kong-girl-who-died-after-4-years-vegetative-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3259764/farewell-tin-yu-family-friends-bid-farewell-hong-kong-girl-who-died-after-4-years-vegetative-state?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Apr 2024 14:06:07 +0000 A Hong Kong public hospital specialist linked to the high-profile death of a hepatitis B patient seven years ago has told the Coroner’s Court he only followed the prescription of the doctor who last treated the woman and did not consider using an antiviral drug usually needed for cases involving liver disease. Chan Siu-kim, a nephrologist, told the court on Tuesday that he assumed hepatitis B carrier Tang Kwai-sze had been well-informed about the consequences of not taking an immunosuppressive... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3259233/hong-kong-doctor-tells-coroners-court-he-followed-prescription-earlier-doctor-hepatitis-b-case-where?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3259233/hong-kong-doctor-tells-coroners-court-he-followed-prescription-earlier-doctor-hepatitis-b-case-where?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:39:19 +0000 A Hong Kong public hospital doctor linked to a liver disease patient’s high-profile death seven years ago told a Coroner’s Court on Monday that he did not prescribe a necessary antiviral drug during consultation because he was “distracted”. Lam Chi-kwan admitted that he failed to prescribe an antiviral drug to Tang Kwai-sze, a hepatitis B carrier, on January 20, 2017, although he did give her an immunosuppressive steroids drug. “During our consultation and prescription process, I believe I was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3259096/hong-kong-doctor-liver-patient-death-case-says-he-failed-prescribe-key-drug-he-had-been-distracted?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3259096/hong-kong-doctor-liver-patient-death-case-says-he-failed-prescribe-key-drug-he-had-been-distracted?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:43:05 +0000 “A Marine officer was killed yesterday when the trawler he was inspecting blew up in Aberdeen,” reported the South China Morning Post on April 7, 1977. “And last night two of the three Marine assistants accompanying him were still missing. “Ten people were hurt – five from one family – in the blast […] only yards from the Jumbo floating restaurant at about 4.10pm.” The next day, the Post reported that a “Marine Department Team has been set up to investigate […] A Marine officer, Mr Thomas... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3258066/when-trawler-blew-hong-kongs-aberdeen-harbour-killing-three-marine-police-officers-and-injuring-10?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3258066/when-trawler-blew-hong-kongs-aberdeen-harbour-killing-three-marine-police-officers-and-injuring-10?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Apr 2024 03:15:41 +0000 The transplant of pig organs into human patients made global headlines last week with two milestone achievements in the field, but ethical considerations like virus transmission may still present a barrier to it becoming common practice. The first feat involved Chinese doctors transplanting a pig’s liver into a patient who had suffered brain death. The groundbreaking surgery saw the organ function for 10 days before it was removed based on the family’s wishes. In China, brain death is not... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3257178/patients-china-and-us-have-received-pig-organ-transplants-opening-ethical-can-worms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3257178/patients-china-and-us-have-received-pig-organ-transplants-opening-ethical-can-worms?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Mar 2024 08:00:12 +0000 Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority is considering seeking help from mainland China in a rare move to find an organ donor for a critically ill 37-year-old local man suffering from severe liver failure. Choy Shing-fai is in a critical condition in Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam and on the verge of entering hepatic coma, which occurs when severe liver disease triggers a decrease in brain functions. The authority said it was searching for a suitable donor locally and was also prepared to seek help... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3256483/time-running-critically-ill-hong-kong-liver-patient-authorities-considering-asking-mainland-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3256483/time-running-critically-ill-hong-kong-liver-patient-authorities-considering-asking-mainland-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:07:23 +0000 Hospital deaths that can be attributed to medical blunders invariably arouse public sympathy for bereaved families and friends, but few more so than the case of eight-year-old Chau Tin-yu, who died last Sunday, nearly four years after she emerged from an operating theatre at Queen Mary Hospital in an irreversible vegetative state. During surgery for a rare cancer, after the tumour had been successfully reduced in size by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a blood transfusion was delayed by 48... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3255286/death-hong-kongs-tin-yu-offers-time-reflection?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3255286/death-hong-kongs-tin-yu-offers-time-reflection?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:30:27 +0000 The father of an eight-year-old girl who has died four years after a blood transfusion was delayed during an operation and she was left in a vegetative state said he hopes to see her in heaven one day, recalling how she had mustered all of her strength to look at her parents in her last moments. Eddie Chau confirmed in a Facebook post on Monday that his daughter Chau Tin-yu died at around 3.40pm the day before. Sources on Sunday also revealed the information. “We were holding her pale and cold... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3254917/ill-see-you-again-heaven-father-hong-kong-girl-chau-tin-yu-confirms-daughters-death-after-4-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3254917/ill-see-you-again-heaven-father-hong-kong-girl-chau-tin-yu-confirms-daughters-death-after-4-years?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:36:40 +0000 An eight-year-old Hong Kong girl who was left in a vegetative state by an incident during surgery four years ago died on Sunday evening after life support was stopped, according to sources. Chau Tin-yu’s family said on their social media page last Thursday that she had not been able to digest food for two days and had been vomiting. Healthcare workers had to pump her stomach to remove milk and stopped feeding her. She had to instead rely on glucose solutions. Staff had also stopped drawing blood... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3254864/hong-kong-girl-chau-tin-yu-8-left-vegetative-state-during-surgery-4-years-ago-dies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3254864/hong-kong-girl-chau-tin-yu-8-left-vegetative-state-during-surgery-4-years-ago-dies?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:20:30 +0000 Hong Kong’s health authorities plan to step up efforts to form collaborations with life sciences institutions and pharmaceutical companies and create a one-stop shop in a bid to burnish the city’s credentials as a clinical trial and research centre. Dr Venus Siu Wing-sze, the Hospital Authority’s chief manager of clinical effectiveness and technology management, said a new Central Clinical Research and Innovation Office would be up and running in the second quarter of the year. “This office will... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3254281/hong-kong-promote-collaboration-institutions-and-pharmaceutical-firms-boost-city-clinical-trial-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3254281/hong-kong-promote-collaboration-institutions-and-pharmaceutical-firms-boost-city-clinical-trial-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Mar 2024 23:00:15 +0000 The family of a 48-year-old man with heart failure has appealed to Hongkongers to consider organ donation, as doctors said the next two to three weeks were the golden time for a transplant. Mechanic Kwok Ho-wing is in an urgent need of a new heart because his own is functioning at just 20 per cent. “Ho-wing’s heart function is very weak,” said Dr Michael Wong Ka-lam, consultant of the cardiac medicine unit at Grantham Hospital. “His physical condition is very unstable and he heavily relies on... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3251275/family-doctors-make-urgent-appeal-organ-donation-save-hong-kong-man-desperate-need-new-heart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3251275/family-doctors-make-urgent-appeal-organ-donation-save-hong-kong-man-desperate-need-new-heart?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:58:53 +0000 Hong Kong police arrested a 71-year-old taxi driver in connection with a hit-and-run just hours after his cab allegedly hit a 65-year-old man and sped away early on Tuesday morning. The vehicle struck the man on Queen’s Road West near the junction with Woo Hop Street in Western district soon after 2.30am, police said. “A taxi hit the victim as he was crossing the road,” a source familiar with the case said. “An initial investigation suggested it did not stop and left the scene.” Hong Kong taxi... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3250258/hong-kong-police-arrest-71-year-old-taxi-driver-over-alleged-hit-and-run-victim-critical-condition?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3250258/hong-kong-police-arrest-71-year-old-taxi-driver-over-alleged-hit-and-run-victim-critical-condition?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jan 2024 05:32:13 +0000 Hongkongers should get vaccinated with the latest generation of Covid-19 jabs and flu shots ahead of Lunar New Year, as the risk of an outbreak will be higher amid a surge in social gatherings, a medical expert has said. Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, chair professor of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, on Saturday said about 80 per cent of cases in the isolation ward of Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam were related to Covid-19, while there was only one report of a flu infection. The flu... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3250003/hongkongers-should-get-covid-xbb-variant-jabs-flu-shots-ahead-lunar-new-year-amid-higher-outbreak?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3250003/hongkongers-should-get-covid-xbb-variant-jabs-flu-shots-ahead-lunar-new-year-amid-higher-outbreak?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Jan 2024 06:37:02 +0000 A 71-year-old man is fighting for his life after being badly burned in a fire that broke out in his subdivided flat in Hong Kong. The blaze started in his 11th-floor home in Chung Nam Mansion on Johnston Road in Wan Chai at about 6.50pm on Thursday, authorities said. The man suffered burns to his whole body and was rushed to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam. He was listed in critical condition on Thursday night. Fierce flames were seen shooting from the windows as the fire engulfed the 215 sq... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3249806/hong-kong-man-71-fights-his-life-after-being-badly-burned-fire-engulfed-subdivided-flat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3249806/hong-kong-man-71-fights-his-life-after-being-badly-burned-fire-engulfed-subdivided-flat?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:52:24 +0000 Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words, and must include your full name and address, plus a phone number for verification. We write to express our concerns regarding the Hong Kong government’s decision to further delay the citywide waste-charging scheme until August 1. It is essential to recognise underlying sectoral... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3249328/decisive-action-not-deferment-will-dispel-waste-charging-doubts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3249328/decisive-action-not-deferment-will-dispel-waste-charging-doubts?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:30:12 +0000 Eddie Chau entered his daughter’s well-lit room in their home in Ho Man Tin in Hong Kong, taking in the colourful wallpaper covered with zoo animals, the rabbit plush toys and the blue sky mural across the ceiling. Only eight-year-old Chau Tin-yu was missing. The child was in the intensive care unit of Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam, after doctors feared that low blood pressure and a slow heartbeat indicated that her heart was failing. Her 46-year-old father, a former online business owner,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3249218/daddy-understands-if-you-want-go-sleep-hong-kong-fathers-heartbreak-after-daughter-now-8-left?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3249218/daddy-understands-if-you-want-go-sleep-hong-kong-fathers-heartbreak-after-daughter-now-8-left?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jan 2024 04:00:13 +0000 Peers of renowned Hong Kong plastic surgeon Dr Wilson Ho Wai-sun, who was killed in a taxi crash in Wan Chai on Sunday night, have expressed sorrow over his death while recognising his contributions to the cosmetic surgery sector. Those who were saddened by the news included a survivor of the deadly Pat Sin Leng hill fire in 1996, who remembered the doctor for being kind and caring during his painful treatments in hospital almost 20 years ago. Ho, 59, and a female passenger, 47, died after the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3248672/distinguished-hong-kong-plastic-surgeon-killed-wan-chai-collision-credited-putting-city-map-industry?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3248672/distinguished-hong-kong-plastic-surgeon-killed-wan-chai-collision-credited-putting-city-map-industry?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:50:28 +0000 A Hong Kong cabby ran traffic lights at a busy intersection at least five seconds after they turned red before her taxi collided with a double-decker bus, killing her two passengers over the weekend, the Post has learned. The victims were renowned surgeon Dr Wilson Ho Wai-sun, 59, and a mainland Chinese visitor who arrived in the city just hours before the accident at the junction of Fleming Road and Harbour Road in Wan Chai on Sunday night. A source familiar with the case on Tuesday said the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3248667/hong-kong-taxi-driver-jumped-red-light-busy-intersection-crash-killed-2?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3248667/hong-kong-taxi-driver-jumped-red-light-busy-intersection-crash-killed-2?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Jan 2024 12:30:29 +0000 Renowned Hong Kong plastic surgeon Dr Wilson Ho Wai-sun was one of two people killed in a crash involving a taxi and a double-decker bus in Wan Chai on Sunday night, the Post has learned. The northbound taxi carrying Ho and a female passenger was driving on Fleming Road when it collided with an eastbound Citybus double-decker with no passengers on board at the intersection with Harbour Road at around 9.25pm. Both Ho, 59, and the 47-year-old mainland woman, were left unconscious after the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3248404/woman-killed-2-others-hurt-after-hong-kong-double-decker-bus-and-taxi-collide-intersection?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3248404/woman-killed-2-others-hurt-after-hong-kong-double-decker-bus-and-taxi-collide-intersection?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Jan 2024 16:04:43 +0000 More than 4,600 families of newborns in Hong Kong will receive one-off HK$20,000 (US$2,600) cash incentives in late February, a senior official has said, while calling on society to reverse the city’s plummeting birth rates. Deputy Chief Secretary Warner Cheuk Wing-hing on Wednesday revealed that 4,682 eligible applications for the government’s scheme were submitted between October 25 and January 8. The cash bonus was introduced by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu in his policy address last year... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3247966/4682-hong-kong-families-will-get-hk20000-baby-bonuses-february-senior-official-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3247966/4682-hong-kong-families-will-get-hk20000-baby-bonuses-february-senior-official-says?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:40:52 +0000 Four people were injured after a crane truck toppled over onto two vehicles at the entrance of a construction site for the redevelopment of Grantham Hospital in Hong Kong on Monday. The crane was lifting construction materials at the site outside the hospital on Wong Chuk Hang Road in Aberdeen shortly before 11am when the incident occurred, police said. A police spokesman said the two vehicles were hit when the crane crashed down. “A preliminary investigation showed the crane had toppled over in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3247627/5-injured-after-crane-collapses-2-vehicles-hong-kong-construction-site?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/transport/article/3247627/5-injured-after-crane-collapses-2-vehicles-hong-kong-construction-site?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:53:18 +0000 Filipino domestic helper Norma Del Mundo Favorito, who worked in Hong Kong for 19 years, was devastated when she was diagnosed with advanced cervical cancer. The mother-of-three said she loved the city and had planned to work for several more years to support her youngest son, who is a 20-year-old first-year university student studying computer science. “I need to accept it but it’s so sad because my plan was to work here until my youngest son finishes college, maybe four or five years more,”... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3247496/if-you-send-me-home-im-going-die-hong-kong-unions-call-safeguards-against-sacking-seriously-ill?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3247496/if-you-send-me-home-im-going-die-hong-kong-unions-call-safeguards-against-sacking-seriously-ill?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Jan 2024 04:00:17 +0000 Hong Kong public hospitals welcomed four newborn babies in the early hours of the first day of 2024, with their parents set to receive a one-time government subsidy of HK$20,000 (US$2,561). The first baby of the New Year, a girl, was born in Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam at 12.05am, followed by a baby boy at 12.32am in Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung and another girl at 12.36am in Queen Mary Hospital. The fourth baby, a girl weighing 2.86kg (6.3lbs), was born in Prince of Wales... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3246870/im-very-happy-hong-kong-public-hospitals-welcome-first-4-babies-2024-parents-set-receive-hk20000?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3246870/im-very-happy-hong-kong-public-hospitals-welcome-first-4-babies-2024-parents-set-receive-hk20000?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Jan 2024 06:46:46 +0000 The days may be numbered for an eight-year-old Hong Kong girl who was left in a vegetative state after an incident during surgery at a public hospital in 2020, her family has said, as signs of heart failure emerge and relatives prepare for the worst. Chau Tin-yu was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of rare cancer, in 2018. But during surgery to remove the tumour two years later, a blood transfusion was delayed by 48 minutes, leaving her permanently bedridden. Her family on Saturday said... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3246774/her-heart-beginning-fail-days-may-be-numbered-8-year-old-hong-kong-girl-tin-yu-left-vegetative-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3246774/her-heart-beginning-fail-days-may-be-numbered-8-year-old-hong-kong-girl-tin-yu-left-vegetative-state?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:18:23 +0000