Ebbing away: Hong Kong's ivory trade
As Hong Kong moves towards the final step of a landmark ivory ban, TRAFFIC has released a report that acknowledges progress, but urges tighter regulation on privately owned ivory stocks, antique ivory
Hong Kong
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Rare tortoises smuggled out, sent back
A large number of Afghan tortoises
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HK finds traces of coke in energy drink
Hong Kong: Hong Kong officials say they have found traces of cocaine in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated close to 18,000 cases of the popular energy drink.
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Daishin Eyes Climate Change Commodity Plays
Daishin Investment Trust Management, which runs a climate change fund that invests in companies engaged in disaster relief, plans a new commodities fund this year to capitalize on the effects of global warming.
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W.H.O. May Raise Alert Level as Swine Flu Cases Leap in Japan
The number of swine flu cases in Japan soared over the weekend, raising the likelihood that the World Health Organization will soon have to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level. On Sunday, the assistant principal of a school in Queens died after being hospitalized with swine flu. It was the sixth flu-related death in the United States and the first in New York State.
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Hong Kong: Recycling Pact Signed
Delegates from scores of shipping nations signed an agreement on Friday at a conference of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations in Hong Kong to require stronger environmental standards in recycling old ships. The rules will not become binding for at least two years, after a complex ratification formula is met.
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Even as Fears of Flu Ebb, Mexicans Feel Stigma
Medical experts are calling the new influenza virus A(H1N1), but for many Mexicans it is simply a scarlet A. From Chile, where sports officials declined to host Mexican soccer teams, to China, where the authorities forced even healthy resident Mexicans and Mexican travelers into quarantine, Mexicans say they have been typecast as disease carriers and subjected to humiliating treatment.
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Gone with the ban?
It is a move that may draw flak or resistance, but when you look at the bigger picture, a ban on plastic bags and levying a tax on their use will do our surroundings a world of good.
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World Health Organization Raises Swine Flu Alert Level
The global spread of swine flu, a pandemic, is highly likely, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday and raised its alert level to Phase 5, the next-to-highest level in the worldwide warning system. Commuters wore protective masks at a subway station in Mexico City on Wednesday.
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Chemical that can stop flu spread found
Hong Kong: Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have identified a synthetic compound which appears to be able to stop the replication of influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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Modification by influenza on health effects of air pollution in Hong Kong
Both influenza viruses and air pollutants have been well documented as major hazards to human health, but few epidemiologic studies have assessed effect modification of influenza on health effects of ambient air pollutants. The authors aimed to assess modifying effects of influenza on health effects of ambient air pollutants.