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Sharp Island is a popular destination with tourists in Hong Kong. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong

Groups welcome updated Hong Kong biodiversity plan but call for more details

Government unveils Hong Kong Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, which sets out strategies for the next 10 years.

Waste Management

Editorial | Hong Kong still needs a waste-charging scheme

Hong Kong

Opinion | How to invite meaning to your Christmas feast in a turmoil-filled world

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong’s solid waste levels dip for third year, but green groups still worried

Environment groups say trend not so clear-cut, cite impact of pandemic and heightened public awareness over shelved waste-charging plan.

Authorities last year shelved a controversial waste-charging scheme. Photo: Eugene Lee
Extreme weather

Letters | Asia is waking up to storms that are stronger – and more polluted

Readers discuss new research that shows how typhoons spread microplastic pollution, encouraging the use of an anti-scam app, and the migrant domestic workers who fell victim to the Tai Po fire.

2025 National Games

Letters | In the National Games, Hong Kong has a model of a green mega event

Readers discuss the features of the games that safeguard sustainability and the passing of an Indian cinema legend.

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Hong Kong

Bull shark found stranded in Hong Kong mudflats returned to sea by residents

Despite being caught in Pak Nai fishing nets, scientist says presence of juvenile shark suggests city’s ‘abused’ marine ecosystem is recovering.

The one-metre-long juvenile bull shark found stranded on the mud flats of Pak Nei, Hong Kong. Photo: Swire Institute of Marine Science
Hong Kong water supply

Editorial | Hong Kong must hasten water pipe replacement efforts

While the government has swiftly responded to the fifth drinking water pollution case this year, it must speed up pipe replacement work.

Hong Kong society

Letters | Rare stingray in Victoria Harbour a welcome sign of nature’s restoration

Readers discuss how Hong Kong’s marine conservation efforts are paying off, plans for a residential development in a Tai Po site, and geopolitical contests in Central Asia.

Shek O

Hong Kong’s whale of a tale: famous skeleton at Shek O gets new lease of life

Damaged skeleton of infant mammal that wandered into Victoria Harbour in 1955 meticulously recreated and displayed at original resting spot in Cape D’Aguilar.

Marine researchers and staff of the Swire Institute of Marine Science with the new replica at Cape D’Aguilar. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong society

Hot water runs out at Hong Kong estate amid bitumen clean-up, safety fears grow

Worried Taikoo Shing residents seek to clean meters after bitumen found in drinking water, turn to bottled options.

Taikoo Shing residents stock up on drinking water from a truck. Photo: Sun Yeung
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Chikungunya may be spreading silently in Hong Kong, expert says after fourth case

‘This latest case, I believe, highlights that we have some silent transmission chains in Hong Kong,’ expert says.

Hong Kong society

Hong Kong authorities vow to clean bitumen-polluted water tanks by early morning

Laboratory tests confirm black particles found in polluted drinking water of 14 blocks of Taikoo Shing residential development were bitumen.

Art

A sea exhibition in Hong Kong explores our relationship with the ocean

Through the works of eight artists, a new exhibition at Karin Weber Gallery pays homage to the connection between people and the sea.

Seafood is a bamboo-and-paper sculpture by Hong Kong artist Louis To Wun featured at the All-Sea: Eight Oceanic Artistic Practices from Southeast Asia and Hong Kong exhibition at Karin Weber Gallery in Hong Kong. Photo: Kylie Knott
Animal welfare in Hong Kong

Hong Kong hooked as endangered stingray fished out of Victoria Harbour

Ocean Park identifies fish as endangered longhead eagle ray and urges anglers to release rare species immediately if caught.

The stingray caught in Victoria Harbour earlier this week has been identified as an endangered species. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong society

Flooding, leaks and power cuts: how extreme weather hits Hong Kong’s poorest

Survey finds extreme weather has had a ‘wide-ranging and severe impact on the lives and living environment’ of those in subdivided flats.

Hong Kong society

Typhoons damage 20% of Hong Kong Covid isolation cubicles, reuse plans under way

Development Bureau says modules will be repaired and reused at construction sites of future public works projects.

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Hong Kong weather

Hong Kong this year endured hottest October since records began: Observatory

Hong Kong also experienced record-breaking warm nights and exceptionally hot days for October, forecaster says.

The monthly mean maximum temperature also stood at 29.9 degrees, marking the second-highest on record for an October. Photo: Sam Tsang
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong confirms second locally acquired case of chikungunya fever

School worker, 55, found to have the same source of infection as the first case, an 82-year-old woman in Diamond Hill.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Editorial | Hong Kong is right to step up action to prevent chikungunya spread

With the city recording its first case of local infection, residents should support the health authorities and take protective measures.

Hong Kong

Opinion | 2 steps Hong Kong must take as it expands eco-tourism

Nature-based tourism can drive funds into marine conservation, but proper planning is needed to prevent visitors from damaging the environment.

Illustration: Craig Stephens
Hong Kong tourism

Letters | 3 ways Hong Kong can keep the golden goose of ecotourism healthy

Readers discuss how to manage ecotourism, the safety of bamboo scaffolding, and empathy for people with disabilities.

Tourists go snorkelling at Sharp Island on October 4, during the National Day holiday. Photo: Dickson Lee
Architecture and design

Want to save a floundering industry? Go solar, add shade and cut labour

A University of Hong Kong team has designed innovative structures that modernise traditional aquaculture while creating public spaces.

Hong Kong

Coca-Cola goes green in Hong Kong with locally recycled PET bottles

Bottling partner Swire Coca-Cola starts using locally sourced recycled PET from Hong Kong supplier New Life Plastics.

Hong Kong weather

Hong Kong develops AI-driven landslip warning system with more than 90% accuracy

New system, to be implemented next year, boosts landslide risk management by combining AI, big data, and real-time rainfall monitoring.

A new AI-based landslip warning system is set to be implemented in Hong Kong next year, increasing the accuracy of predicting the number of landslides to more than 90 per cent. Photo: Dickson Lee
Hong Kong society

Hong Kong to review tourist capacity and marine protection amid coral damage

City leader John Lee urges balance between environmental protection and tourism after coral damage off Sharp Island during ‘golden week’.

Greenpeace found that tourists trampled corals and dug coastal organisms on Sharp Island, Sai Kung, during the ‘golden week’ holiday. Photo: Handout
Chinese tourists

Opinion | Better public awareness of coral will help preserve our natural bounty

Hong Kong has a wealth of coral treasures, but recent events show that better education and management are needed.

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Energy

Hong Kong nursing home, hospital first to benefit from new CLP energy saving plan

Initiative expected to save both organisations electricity equal to consumption of 120 households annually.

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