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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’s cancer research drawing global attention, says leading body’s chief asserted

chief → draw → attention

Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control, hails city’s tobacco control record as example for others Hong Kong is playing a central role as part of a broader regional hub for research breakthroughs, the head of a leading global cancer organisation has said, adding that the city’s success in reducing its smoking rate has set an example for others to follow. asserted

others → hail → example

Cary Adams, CEO of the Union for International Cancer Control, praised the city’s tobacco control efforts as the organisation held the World Cancer Congress in Hong Kong last month for the first time. asserted

organisation → praise → time

“We’ve all become aware globally that the centre of intense research and breakthrough is coming from this part of the world,” Adams told the South China Morning Post on the sidelines of the congress, which was held in late September. asserted

which → become → September

“It was important for us to be here so we can understand what is happening in China, what is happening in Hong Kong.” asserted

what → understand → Kong

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