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[Recap] Hong Kong athletes bag 41 medals at Asian Para Games with historic boccia run hongkongfp.com/2026/10/26/ho…
[Recap] China’s Communist Party elite gather for closed-door governance talks hongkongfp.com/2026/10/26/ch…
[Recap] Cost barriers leave Hong Kong’s low-income elderly shut out of advance medical directives despite landmark law hongkongfp.com/2026/10/26/co…
China accused the United States on Monday of "targeted smearing" over Washington's designation of Beijing-funded Confucius Institute cultural centres as national security threats.
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Washington considers the centres on American university campuses as propaganda tools of the Chinese Communist Party and has imposed funding restrictions on the institutes since 2025.
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A Hong Kong lawmaker has questioned whether fines under a government proposal to increase price transparency among the city's private healthcare providers are too low to serve as an effective deterrent.
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Under the proposed bill introduced to the Legislative Council by health minister Lo Chung-mau on Friday, private healthcare providers will be required to provide a bilingual price list at reception desks and cashier counters. They must also give patients budget estimates before specific treatments and procedures and provide an explanation if patients' bills are 20 per cent or more than the original estimate.
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Close to 1,000 people have been evacuated from a waste incineration plant off Hong Kong's Shek Kwu Chau island after a No. 3 alarm fire broke out at the facility on Monday.
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The Fire Services Department said it received reports at 12.42pm on Monday that a fire had broken out at the I·PARK1 waste management facility on an artificial island off Shek Kwu Chau, south of Lantau Island. The blaze was upgraded to a No.3 alarm at 1.24pm.
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Police have arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of animal cruelty after animal welfare volunteers caught him lacing bowls of food left out for stray cats with rat poison.
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In a Saturday statement, police said that a report was received at around 3.37am that day alleging that the man, surnamed Ho, had spiked bowls of cat food with poison.
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Hong Kong athletes have brought home 41 medals from the Asian Para Games, winning three golds and achieving the city's historic best in boccia.
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The delegation returned on Sunday after the week-long games in Nagoya and the wider Aichi Prefecture in Japan, which began on October 18.
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China's President Xi Jinping and other top leaders meet in Beijing on Monday at a key gathering watched closely for clues as to the country's direction and future leadership.
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Roughly 300 members of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee in attendance at the meeting, called the fifth plenum, will be looking to tighten discipline within their ranks, according to state media.
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Seventy-eight-year-old Fung Ho-chu has been hoping to put her wishes on end-of-life treatment into writing ever since she learned that a new law on advance medical directives (AMD) came into effect in late July. But as a senior living on government welfare in low-income Sham Shui Po, the costs of the process have forced her to reconsider.
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