Many appear to have spent their vouchers on necessities to help ease financial burden caused by increasing living costs.
Creating a truly ‘Happy Hong Kong’ will take more than freebies and fairs
The food fair and discounted movie tickets on offer are nice but do nothing to address the real problems plaguing Hong Kong residents The city's scalping industry is thriving, electricity and ...
Eligible Hong Kong cancer survivors able to seek follow-up consultations from private practitioners at subsidised rates from 2024
Lymphoma survivors to receive up to 10 subsidised visits per year at private clinics of their choice More than 650 private doctors have registered with the Hospital Authority under the programme, ...
Hong Kong authorities preparing to release COVID-19 whistleblower after 3 years: Report
Fang Bin and other citizen journalists embarrassed the Chinese government by posting details of the pandemic on the internet and social media.
Crocodile spotted in Hong Kong village caught 4 hours after first sighting
Hong Kong conservation officers are rushing to capture a rare one-metre crocodile spotted at a village in New Territories on Sunday afternoon. The reptile was discovered by a resident of Lin Fa Tei, a ...
Some bosses taking advantage of older workers in Hong Kong by not providing paid sick leave, annual holidays, survey finds ahead of Labour Day
Society for Community Organisation conducted in-depth interviews with 40 people aged 55 years or above over six months Some employers have been avoiding providing workers' with statutory protection in ...
Rest in green peace: Hong Kong set to push for green burials amid rise in deaths and columbarium crunch, but tradition hard to break
Green burials gain traction in recent years, involving scattering the ashes of the dead in memorial gardens or at sea.
Exotic turtles have been poached to near-extinction in Asia, but in Hong Kong, these species thrive
Three species of turtles poached for sale in Asia are finding refuge in Hong Kong. But poachers could completely decimate their populations.
Are Hong Kong’s hotel prices pushing mainland Chinese tourists away? 110,000 leave city on first day of ‘golden week’ holiday
Official figures show 165,669 travellers crossed the border into Hong Kong on Saturday, while 110,547 departed the city as of midnight Tourists cite high hotel prices and convenience of high-speed ...
What it’s really like to visit Hong Kong now
There are points high up in Plover Cove Country Park, in the New Territories region of Hong Kong, where you can peek through the maple trees and banyans into ma ...
As the US cracks down on crypto, Hong Kong extends a warm welcome
April, thousands of people queued in line to enter the Hong Kong Convention Center where the city's inaugural web3 festival was underway. Most had flown in from mainland China, but many others had ...
Hong Kong’s Unsold New Homes Highest Since 2007, Ming Pao Says
Hong Kong’s inventory of completed but unsold private new homes climbed to the largest since early 2007, as the government increases land supplies and developers put more units on the market, the Ming ...
‘Five public schools face axe in Hong Kong after failing to meet Primary One enrolment threshold’
Sources say schools told earlier this month by Education Bureau they could not operate Primary One classes in next academic yearInstitutions may be forced to close in three years’ time when bureau ...
Hong Kong Approves 33,000 Talent Visa Applications, SCMP Says
Hong Kong has approved more than 33,000 talent visa applications as of the middle of this month, the South China Morning Post reported, citing Chief Secretary Eric Chan.