Proposed centres in Qianhai and Nansha will help to meet Hongkongers’ rising demand for medical care.
Undersecretary for health lays out conditions for third medical school, while saying existing hospitals can’t serve as teaching facilities.
Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau says amendments also include limited registration and special registration for dentists trained outside city.
Detailed proposal for new medical school to be submitted to Hong Kong authorities by end of month, Post learns.
In My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey, Professor Yuen Kwok-yung sheds light about his time as a government adviser during Covid.
Professor Thomas Flemmig, newly retired dean of HKU’s dentistry school, says pandemic made students’ clinical training tougher than ever.
Princess Margaret Hospital says man stayed in same ward cubicle as hepatitis C carrier, 14 other patients being checked.
Health minister Lo Chung-mau says service fee review to focus on those in need, while reducing abuse by non-urgent cases.
My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey is set to be released in mid-July and charts leading microbiologist’s forays into nature, space and public health.
Competition heats up as one taxi consortium says it will invest HK$100 million in new cabs and provide extra training for up to 700 drivers if its application under new licensing scheme is successful.
Lawmakers urge city to follow mainland’s lead to use drones for delivering goods and carrying passengers, touting tourism opportunities.
Tropical Storm Maliksi will make landfall around midnight but chance of upgrading No 3 signal is low, weather forecaster says.
Environment chief Tse Chin-wan says plan can see Hong Kong take advantage of mainland’s space and cheaper labour.
Vietnamese authorities last year issued arrest warrant for former Cyberport chairman Lee George Lam in connection with country’s biggest financial fraud.
Sixteen companies and institutes from Hong Kong Science Park will attend Bio International Convention, dubbed world’s largest bio event, from June 3 to 6.
Dental students have clashed with government over proposal to make graduates intern for a year in public sector before being granted full registration status.
Ivan Hung of University of Hong Kong says signs of mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus could make mammals more likely to be infected than before.
Health authorities say city registered 28 infections as of Thursday, a significant post-pandemic ‘resurgence’ from last year’s total of 15 cases.
Industry leader Tenky Tin says few locations appropriate to preserve and display sets of hit film, with original site of Kowloon Walled City not ideal.
HKU says it is ‘continuously enhancing’ dentistry curriculum and working with government to set up public sector internships for all the faculty’s graduates
Under proposed law amendment, University of Hong Kong dental graduates will have to intern at public institutions for a year before they can register as dentists.
HKUST president Nancy Ip says she hopes doctors trained by university will help to alleviate city’s long-standing shortage of medical professionals.
Professor Ivan Hung of University of Hong Kong says current H1 flu outbreak expected to last till June or July, before next wave hits a month or two later.
Hong Kong Observatory says rainfall likely to reach its heaviest on Monday, but showers will continue throughout coming week.
Lawmaker Tik Chi-yuen voices concerns that case of woman who allegedly killed herself and her son with mental disabilities just tip of iceberg.
Trio arrested in Germany over spying allegations believed to include Thomas Reichenbach, former marketing manager at Hong Kong Trade Development Council, but body is not subject of investigation.
Lawmakers say government has not come up with effective ways to measure and help population living in poverty.
Health chief Lo Chung-mau says rate may even grow higher if more men join scheme designed to detect chronic diseases at an early stage.
Post looks into whether song can still be played and under what circumstances.
German authorities last month arrested suspect only named as Thomas R over spying for Beijing, with information trail suggesting man is Thomas Reichenbach.
