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Hong Kong retiree May Leung was a loyal customer of the Physical chain of fitness and beauty centres for nearly 20 years, going at least three times a month for wellness classes, facials and regular massages. The 60-year-old paid the company HK$400,000 (US$51,416) in advance, though she was not sure what services that covered, or […]
Hongkongers will have quicker and cheaper access to new medications when the Hospital Authority starts centralising new drug assessments and improving its procurement system to cut introduction times to its formulary by five months. The authority’s chief pharmacist, William Chui Chun-ming, said on Thursday doctors would no longer need to go through the assessment at […]
A Hong Kong court has sentenced two human traffickers to up to four years and eight months in jail for tricking five Hongkongers into forced labour and confinement in Southeast Asia in one of the worst cases involving residents’ safety overseas in recent years. Ma Che-hou, 32, and Joshua Cheung Man-waai, 25, were sentenced on […]
Preventing Hongkongers from spending their cash in mainland China would be an unrealistic and inappropriate move, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu has said, arguing the city is in the midst of an economic upgrade and urging retailers to reinvent themselves. Speaking a day after his annual policy address, the city’s leader said the trend of […]
Hong Kong will give people aged under 40 a leg-up towards owning their own homes by allocating them an extra vote in the ballot for subsidised flats, Chief Executive John Lee said. Lee announced the new measure in his third Policy Address on Wednesday, along with other measures to help young people find their own […]