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Elizabeth Cheung

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🔮 What Hongkongers need to know about the latest changes to the MPF scheme ‘Full portability’ will allow eligible users to transfer both employer and employee contributions to their preferred MPF scheme The South China Morning Post looks at the details of the latest changes and how they will affect employees.

2026-10-26 · assertive framing · What Hongkongers need to know about the latest changes to the MPF scheme

🔮 Health warning over beauty jabs using dead people’s skin following Hong Kong raids Treatment attracting attention online, but health official warns product lacks clinical safety data and could pose public health risks

2026-10-22 · mixed framing · Health warning over beauty jabs using dead people’s skin following Hong Kong raids

🔮 Raymond Tong Kai-yu spent a decade overcoming challenges in cost and production to develop a device that could change lives: a robotic hand that helps stroke patients regain mobility and relearn everyday movements.

2026-10-18 · assertive framing · Hong Kong excels at medical research. So what is holding it back?

🔮 Hong Kong private healthcare providers face new rules to make fees more transparent New rules could apply from August next year, requiring bilingual price lists, budget estimates and explanations for bills at least 20 per cent higher Private healthcare providers in Hong Kong will have to make their charges more transparent under government measures to be introduced from August next year at the earliest, including requirements to publish bilingual fee schedules and annual billing statistics.

2026-10-16 · mixed framing · Hong Kong private healthcare providers face new rules to make fees more transparent

🔮 Kai Tak Hospital opens this week: what you need to know before visiting Hong Kong’s largest public hospital begins phased operation on Monday, starting with family medicine and specialist outpatient services Hong Kong’s largest public hospital, built on the former airport site in Kai Tak, will begin its first phase of operation on Monday after more than a decade of planning and preparation.

2026-10-05 · assertive framing · Kai Tak Hospital opens this week: what you need to know before visiting

🔮 Foreign carers for elderly to get 10 to 20% more pay than current helpers Carers must also have received elderly care training recognised by Hong Kong and possess at least three years of experience looking after older people Foreign domestic carers brought to Hong Kong to look after elderly residents under a proposed government pilot scheme would receive 10 to 20 per cent more pay than existing helpers, the labour minister has said.

2026-09-18 · assertive framing · Foreign carers for elderly to get 10 to 20% more pay than current helpers

🔮 Hong Kong aims to raise innovation spending to 3% of GDP by about 2030 Chief Executive John Lee unveils ambitious goal, together with measures to boost frontier technologies, including aerospace research Hong Kong will strive to raise its expenditure on innovation activities to a level equivalent to 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by around 2030, nearly double the current rate, according to the city’s first five-year plan. Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu unveiled the ambitious goal, together with measures to boost frontier technologies, including aerospace research, on Wednesday. Among the 22 indicators laid out in the plan, the government aims to raise the ratio of total domestic expenditure on innovation activities to GDP from 1.63 per cent in 2024 to 3 per cent around 2030.

2026-09-16 · mixed framing · Hong Kong aims to raise innovation spending to 3% of GDP by about 2030

🔮 New visa category among spate of new talent-trawling measures unveiled in city leader John Lee’s latest policy address A new visa intended to attract international talent to participate in short-term training programmes in Hong Kong could become available as early as the first quarter of next year, the South China Morning Post has learned.

2026-09-16 · mixed framing · Hong Kong’s new training visa could be available in first quarter of 2027

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Hong Kong reports more than 40% drop in cancer-related death rate over 30 years Health minister Lo Chung-mau outlines Hong Kong’s “remarkable” progress at the World Cancer Congress, being held in the city for the first time Hong Kong has cut its rate of cancer-related deaths by more than 40 per cent over the past three decades, the health minister said, as the city’s leader renewed his pledge to make it a hub for medical innovation. asserted

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Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau outlined the city’s progress in cancer control at the World Cancer Congress, which is being held in Hong Kong for the first time. asserted

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Citing figures from 1993 to 2023, Lo said Hong Kong’s age-standardised cancer mortality rate had fallen by more than 40 per cent. asserted

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“This is a remarkable achievement, showing that Hong Kong is really making significant life-saving progress against cancer,” Lo said during a plenary session at the congress. asserted

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