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Damaged electronic components, faulty wiring connections and poor installation workmanship were among the problems affecting 24 of the 28 newly installed lifts in Clinical Block 1. Photo: Karma Lo
Hong Kong healthcare and hospitals

Hong Kong suspends contractors over Queen Mary Hospital lift defects

Authorities say 24 of 28 lifts in new block are affected, delaying the launch of clinical services until repairs are completed.

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Hong Kong courts

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

From our archives

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

‘P-Cardiac’ uses Asia’s largest patient records database to check risk of developing cardiovascular disease, among top causes of death in city.

The AI-powered tool is the first of its kind in the city. Photo: Shutterstock
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.

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.

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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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Visitors at the Ryze new trampoline park in Quarry Bay. Photo: May Tse
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.

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

The night in 1982 when a barbecue boiled over, with two groups attacking each other leaving one man dead and two injured. Illustration: Wai Yee
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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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.

Chan Wai-ho is waiting for a life-saving heart transplant. Photo: Handout
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.

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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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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The front half of the taxi was left hanging over Ice House Street. Photo: Facebook/Bosco Chu
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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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.

Lam Chi-kwan (middle), a doctor at United Christian Hospital, leaves the Eastern court in Sai Wan Ho in January 2023. He and fellow doctor Chan Siu-kim, had been charged with manslaughter over the death of Tang Kwai-sze, in 2017. Photo: Jelly Tse
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.

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.

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