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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Dirty Rich City
Hong Kong will have to pay dearly for cleaning up its dirty air
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Lung Power
A clean air activist listens to a police officer during a demonstration held outside Hong Kong's Legislative Council recently. They were protesting the government's slow progress in improving the
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Polluted city
Diesel vehicles are at the core of Hong Kong s air pollution problems
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Hong Kong
Led by the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( wwf ), conservationists have warned that if the growing trade in shahtoosh wool does not stop, the Tibetan antelope, known as chiru , will become
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Toxic metals in snails
A recent study has revealed that more than half the snails fished out of southern Hong Kong waters contained excessive levels of toxic metals. The study conducted by researchers of the City
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The web widens
Cancer cases in Hong Kong will reach an all time high, says a study
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HONG KONG
A new strain of the influenza A virus ( h9n2 ) has been discovered in two patients by the virus unit of the Hong Kong department of health. The two patients are girls, aged one and four, who
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HONG KONG
Despite Viagara hitting the stores in Hong Kong, the sale of Chinese medicines has not been affected. The Hong Kong health authorities approved the sale of Viagara in February 1999 and the
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HONG KONG
Hong Kong disappeared under a blanket of filth as the air pollution index shot up on January 19,1999. According to country's Environmental Protection Department, the smog was caused by low winds
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Music for words
Early musical training appears to improve memory for words, claims a new study. Agnes S Chan at the Chinese University in Hong Kong gave a series of verbal memory tests to 30 female students who had