3 d. ago Man hurt after truck with pig carcasses crashes into Hong Kong convenience store

A man has been injured after a truck carrying pig carcasses crashed into a convenience store in Hong Kong. Police said they received a report at 8.24am on Tuesday that a medium-sized truck had struck a convenience store on Gage Street in Central. The man, a customer at the convenience store, sustained injuries to his forehead and was sent to Queen Mary Hospital for treatment, according to the force. Video clips and photos circulating online show that the truck was carrying pig carcasses and the...

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3 d. ago Man hurt after truck carrying pig carcasses crashes into Hong Kong store

A man was injured when a truck carrying pig carcasses crashed into a convenience store in Hong Kong on Tuesday morning. Police said they received a report at 8.24am that a medium-sized truck had smashed into a shopfront on Gage Street in Central. The man, a customer at the store, sustained injuries to his forehead and was sent to Queen Mary Hospital in Pok Fu Lam for treatment, according to the force. Video clips and photos circulating online show that the truck was carrying pig carcasses, and...

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3 d. ago Man arrested for arson, murder after woman found injured in Hong Kong flat dies

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson and murder after a woman was found injured inside a Hong Kong flat and later died. Police said they received a report at 6.59am on Tuesday after security guards at Ting Fuk House of On Ting Estate in Tuen Mun spotted a fire in the flat. First responders arrived at the scene to find papers burning, along with a man and a woman, both believed to be about 50 years old. The unconscious woman, who had cut wounds on her body, was sent to Tuen Mun Hospital,...

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3 d. ago Hong Kong man facing murder charge after wife found with knife wounds, burns

A man has been arrested after allegedly attacking and killing his wife with a knife and trying to set fire to their home in northwestern Hong Kong. Police said they received a report of a flat fire and a person injured at 6.59am on Tuesday from security guards at On Ting Estate in Tuen Mun. First responders arrived at the flat in Ting Fuk House and put out a fire that covered about 11 sq ft, said Chief Inspector Patty Chong Yuen‑na of Tuen Mun police. The woman, a convenience shop worker, had...

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4 d. ago Students, workers, domestic helpers hit by Hong Kong fire get HK$20,000 payout

Students, workers and domestic helpers affected by the deadly Hong Kong blaze that claimed 151 lives will each receive a payout of HK$20,000 (US$2,570) as part of government relief efforts. Donations to the government’s relief fund have reached HK$1.6 billion. The authorities on Monday also announced grants ranging from HK$50,000 to HK$100,000 for the dozens of people injured in the fire. Aid continued to pour in from the authorities and private sector after last Wednesday’s deadly fire at Wang...

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4 d. ago Mainland China public donations for Hong Kong fire relief top HK$80 million

Hong Kong has received a wave of compassion from mainland China over the deadly fire in Tai Po, the city’s worst in decades, with public donations from across the border exceeding HK$80 million (US$10.27 million). The China Social Welfare Foundation announced that donations from 1. 7 million residents on the mainland had exceeded 76 million yuan (US$10.74 million) or about HK$83.5 million, as of Sunday. Many donors also contributed to the Hong Kong government’s relief fund and local charities,...

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5 d. ago 1,760 households get HK$10,000 cash handout after deadly Hong Kong fire

More than 1,700 households affected by Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades have received an emergency cash handout of HK$10,000 (US$1,284), an official has confirmed, as the city works to ease mortgage burdens on impacted homeowners. Authorities earlier announced a series of relief funds for residents affected by last Wednesday’s massive Wang Fuk Court inferno, which has so far claimed 146 lives. The measures include the HK$10,000 one-off emergency payment for each victim and a living...

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2 w. ago Hong Kong receives 41 million visitors in first 10 months of 2025, a 12% jump

Hong Kong has recorded a 12 per cent year-on-year increase in tourist arrivals for the first 10 months of 2025, with around 41 million people visiting the city between January and October, according to the Tourism Board. The city welcomed 9.62 million foreign tourists in that period, marking a 16 per cent year-on-year increase in non-mainland Chinese visitors, the board revealed on Monday. The 31.44 million mainland tourists, accounting for 76.6 per cent of total visitors, marked an 11 per cent...

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2 w. ago ‘Devastating’ losses: scammers targeting mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong

Mainland Chinese student Zhang Li* was devastated after losing 200,000 yuan (US$25,734) in a phone scam in Hong Kong. The 24-year-old said she received a call last September, shortly after arriving in the city to pursue a master’s degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The caller initially claimed to be from the Immigration Department. Her call was then transferred to another person posing as a mainland law enforcement officer after she explained that she did not speak Cantonese. She was...

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3 w. ago Banker’s family sues clinic of Hong Kong plastic surgeon, 93, over deadly jabs

The family of a top banker who died after receiving botox injections seven years ago has sued the Hong Kong clinic that offered the treatment, extending its founder’s legal woes just as a court earlier discharged him from a manslaughter trial. Franklin WP Li’s Surgery Limited, which operates the Tsim Sha Tsui clinic, has been accused of negligence and breach of duty of care over the use of a combination of sedatives and anaesthetics on Zoe Cheung Shuk-ling on November 11, 2018, according to a...

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3 w. ago More than 1,000 daily inquiries for Hong Kong’s new medical fee waiver scheme

Hong Kong’s public hospitals have received more than 1,000 inquiries daily since applications for medical fee waivers opened last Monday, authorities have revealed. Chief Executive of the Hospital Authority, Dr Libby Lee Ha-yun, said in a television interview on Sunday that more than 100 applications had already been submitted, out of the additional 1.1 million people that will be made eligible for fee waivers under a reform of the public healthcare subsidy scheme taking effect on January 1,...

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