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The Coroner’s Court ruled that Lui Pak-to died of cerebral oedema following a gastroscopy at Queen Mary Hospital on February 29, 2024. Photo: Jelly Tse
Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong inquest finds rare gastroscopy complication caused man’s death

Coroner rules death caused by brain swelling after procedure at Queen Mary Hospital in 2024, with rapid deterioration limiting treatment options.

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When a teenager was stabbed to death with a fork … over an alleged stare

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong team seeks patients to test AI tool targeting potentially fatal disease

Crime in Hong Kong

Doctor cleared of Hong Kong assault held in India amid rape-murder probe

Dr Sandip Ghosh held over alleged corruption after probe into murder-rape of student in Kolkata hospital where he was principal.

The doctor was acquitted in 2017 after being accused of molesting a male nursing student at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei. Photo: Dickson Lee
Accidents and personal safety

Woman dies, 3 others injured in fire that broke out in Hong Kong’s SoHo

Fire starts in No 9 on Gough Street in SoHo area in Sheung Wan at about 10.20pm.

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong urged to probe trampoline park after tourist falls and loses kidney

Woman says right kidney ‘shattered’ after falling and striking edge of foam pool at Ryze Ultimate Trampoline Park on June 7 of last year.

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Hong Kong society

2 Hong Kong taxi drivers injured, 1 wild boar killed in separate road accidents

Taxi driver forced to brake suddenly to avoid boar on Aberdeen Praya Road, but another cabby minutes later slams into and kills pig.

Taxis were involved in both of the accidents. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong’s Li Ka Shing Foundation funds non-invasive liver cancer treatment

Li Ka Shing Foundation donates Asia’s first cutting-edge, non-invasive device for treatment of liver cancer to city’s oldest university.

From our archives

Heated argument: 1 dead and 2 injured as a barbecue boils over

Remembering the night when groups of picnickers fought with forks to the deadly end

From our archives

The great escape: when 3 prisoners broke out of a Hong Kong jail

After 2 months of planning their escape from Chi Ma Wan open prison, the prisoners were recaptured within a couple of days

In August 1970, three escaped foreign prisoners were recaptured after just two days on the lam. Photo: SCMP Archive
Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong tram driver arrested after girl, 3, dies in accident, 3 others hurt

Family may have tried to cross road on red light, source says.

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The three-year-old girl was trapped under the tram in Kennedy Town. Photo: Facebook
Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong cabby, passenger injured after crashing into lamp post in Admiralty

Incident temporarily disrupts westbound tram services and two car lanes on Queensway during morning rush hour.

Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong plea for organ donations as heart failure man waits for gift of life

Chan Wai-ho’s heart working at just 20 per cent of normal as Hospital Authority appeals for organ donations.

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong woman dies, husband in coma after alleged fire murder-suicide bid

Pair found with serious burns in smoke-filled Mid-Levels flat; husband suspected of murder-suicide attempt.

Belmont Court on Kotewall Road in Hong Kong’s upscale Mid-Levels neighbourhood. Photo: Google Maps
From our archives

On This Day | Landslip in Hong Kong’s Kennedy Town kills 3 people in 1994 – SCMP archive

On this day 30 years ago, heavy rain washed away a slope in Hong Kong, killing three people and forcing 2,000 families to evacuate.

1994’s landslide at Kwun Lung Lau housing estate in Kennedy Town killed three people, including a 9-year-old girl and her father. Photo: Eric Li
Accidents and personal safety

Former Post data specialist dies in stand-up paddleboarding accident in Hong Kong

Jude Law Kai-yiu, 30, who was employed by the Post from 2017 to 2019, is believed to have drowned off Lamma Power Station Beach, police say.

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YCIS celebrates remarkable IB results of the 2024 cohort With Two Perfect Scorers

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Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Freeze women’s eggs? But ‘soil’ may be bad, Hong Kong health chief says

Minister Lo Chung-mau’s comment that a frozen seed may not grow on ‘soil’ that has aged draws strong response from female lawmaker.

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Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau has said that he hoped young people would balance family and career by getting married and having children at an earlier age. Photo: Shutterstock
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong’s Yuen Kwok-yung shares journey to becoming disease expert in new book

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.

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Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong taxi hangs over steep drop after crash; passer-by falls to road below

Chaotic scenes on Lower Albert Road in Central as taxi slams into a railing and woman falls to street below.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong girl, 12, hurt trying to stop father during alleged attack on mother

Mother, 53, sustained injuries to left hand, back, neck and right ankle while daughter hurt head, back and fingers.

The mother and daughter were taken to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam for treatment. Photo: Winson Wong
Hong Kong environmental issues

Hong Kong residents warn of legal action if university builds research hub

University of Hong Kong argues its Global Innovation Centre will help spur city’s transformation into innovation and technology hub as envisioned by Beijing, but residents in Pok Fu Lam warn they might go to court to stop project.

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Pok Fu Lam in southern Hong Kong. According to HKU, the Global Innovation Centre on Pok Fu Lam Road near Queen Mary Hospital is expected to be a world-class academic and scientific research facility. Photo: Dickson Lee
From our archives

‘Like hell inside’: when a bomb exploded in a Hong Kong cinema

A bomb exploded during the screening of a police satire in the Hoover Theatre in Causeway Bay in 1974, injuring 11 and sending 400 audience members stampeding for the exits.

Hong Kong society

Editorial | Death of Hong Kong hepatitis B sufferer a reminder to put patient safety first

Two liver transplants could not save a Hong Kong mother after doctors failed to prescribe her the antiviral drugs she needed to protect herself from the virus.

Accidents and personal safety

Hong Kong worker falls from 2-metre-high concert stage used by Taiwan’s Mayday

Group played final concert in series at Central harbourfront on Thursday, after earlier show cancelled due to equipment catching fire.

Works are under way to dismantle the stage used by Taiwanese rock band Mayday at the Central harbourfront. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Profile | She was Hong Kong’s ‘happy fruit’: the life of ‘Fei Fei’, comedian Lydia Sum

With Lydia Sum ‘everything came from the heart’, said the TV producer who turbocharged the career of the comedian and actress. Known as Fei Fei, she is remembered for the joy she brought audiences.

Lydia Sum Tin-ha at an interview with the Post in 1994. When it came to the Hong Kong television and comedy icon, known as Fei Fei, everything came from the heart, said the TV producer who turbocharged her career. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong courts

Hong Kong ‘death by misadventure’ verdict after patient died of liver failure

Coroner praises Michelle Wu, the daughter of the late Tang Kwai-sze, who was 44, for her offer to donate part of her own liver to her mother, and for her role in the inquest.

Hong Kong society

Final farewell to Hong Kong girl Chau Tin-yu who died in vegetative state

Family of Chau Tin-yu, eight, who died on March 10, holds vigil for her at Diamond Hill Funeral Parlour, before her cremation on Sunday.

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