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Foreign domestic workers hired under a planned government elderly caregiving scheme should be paid more and allowed to complete training in Hong Kong rather than in their home countries, migrant worker activists have urged. The government announced during last month’s Policy Address that it wo
Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection (CHP) has stepped up checks for arrivals from Russia after a lab worker in Siberia died from severe pneumonia of undetermined causes earlier this month. The World Health Organization (WHO) became aware of the death at the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Ins
A Hong Kong court has awarded more than HK$89,000 (US$11,340) to a worker at a dog shelter who was seriously injured in a canine attack, rejecting her employer’s argument that she was a volunteer. District Judge Harold Leong Kwok-on said on Monday that the employment relationship between Kelly Anima
Hong Kong will step up health surveillance measures for arrivals after a laboratory worker at an anti-plague research institute in Russia died from pneumonia, but authorities have stressed the risk to residents remains low. According to World Health Organization (WHO) information provided by Russian
A domestic worker has been arrested on suspicion of murder after her 93-year-old employer was found dead at home, with police saying footage obtained on Monday showed the worker assaulting the woman. Police said during a press briefing on Monday that the domestic worker sought help downstairs from h
More than half of Hong Kong’s working adults believe artificial intelligence will make their retirement path more unpredictable than previous generations, yet only one in five feel financially prepared for the shift, according to a survey by global asset manager T. Rowe Price. About 55 per cent of t
Psychological abuse can be hard to detect, Hong Kong welfare experts have warned, urging social workers and teachers to look for subtle changes in children’s behaviour amid outrage over a viral video showing a girl carrying heavy bags of beer as her stepfather called her “useless”. Welfare groups sa
Hong Kong’s Labour Department has opened an investigation into a fatal accident in which a construction worker died after falling from a height. Police received a report just before 1:45pm on Wednesday that a worker fell from over 10 storeys at a construction site on Wui Tung Street in Tung Ch
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A construction worker has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a man who confronted him about smoking while they were waiting for a lift at a private housing estate in Hong Kong. A High Court jury on Tuesday found Tam Yun-chiu, 52, guilty of killing Ho Lok-man after hearing that he repeate
Hong Kong authorities will “pursue accountability” over the deadly Tai Po blaze after an independent probe committee submits its final report, leader John Lee has said, without commenting on whether government officers will be investigated for misconduct. Lee, speaking ahead of a meeting with the Ex
Hong Kong has raised the minimum wage for the city’s more than 380,000 foreign domestic workers by 2.35 per cent, from HK$5,100 to HK$5,220 per month, the government has announced. The government also said on Friday that the food allowance for domestic workers – which employers must pay
Hong Kong authorities have defended its policies on hiring non-locally trained nurses, saying that they are “very small” in number following complaints about the import of non-local workers causing unemployment. The government said in a statement on Tuesday that Hong Kong’s public
Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority has rolled out artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic automation at its new support services centre to handle laundry processing and meal production for public hospitals, aiming to boost efficiency and worker safety. The six-storey, 62,000-square-metre centre, which
Hong Kong’s media should eliminate falsehoods and expand their global reach, the chief executive has said, urging news workers to serve as “spokespeople” for good stories about mainland China and Hong Kong. Speaking on Tuesday at an event marking the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s
Domestic workers called for an increase in their Minimum Allowable Wage from HK$5,100 to HK$6,172 at a rally outside the Labour Department on Friday. The Asian Migrants Coordinating Body (AMCB) also called for an increase in the monthly food allowance from HK$1,236 to HK$3,123. Employers must provid
Hong Kong’s workforce is forecast to shrink by around 20,000 a year until 2028 despite measures to import labour and talent, with shortages remaining most acute among skilled technical workers. A government report on manpower projections on Tuesday found that although the labour shortfall would narr
Hong Kong’s Labour Department has terminated Kwai Chung-based catering firm Happy Up Corporation Ltd’s application to import workers after it failed to meet the required local hiring ratio. The firm has also been barred from applying to import workers for a year. A Labour Department spokesman said o
A Hong Kong man with a mental disability has been sentenced to an indefinite period in a psychiatric hospital for stabbing two women to death in a frenzied knife attack at a shopping centre three years ago. The High Court on Tuesday ordered former warehouse worker Szeto Sing-kwong to receive mandato
Boxes of condoms, AI-generated photos of sex workers, and a computer opened up to a part-time girlfriends website sit inside Heath, an event space in Tsim Sha Tsui. The venue is perhaps a fitting one for A Body of One’s Own, an exhibition spotlighting the history of sex work in Hong Kong. Loca
A main contractor and two subcontractors have been fined more than HK$900,000 each for their role in the death of a 38-year-old worker who was electrocuted while handling wiring for solar panels during wet weather at the Hong Kong Science Park three years ago. Magistrate Jeffrey Sze Cho-yiu said Chi
A man believed to be millions of dollars in debt is suspected of murdering his wife in their flat after previous financial disputes, according to preliminary investigations by Hong Kong police. Superintendent Kwan Chun-ting, assistant district commander of Eastern district crime squad, said on Thurs
Weeks after sparking a nationwide outcry over its mass dismissal of recent college graduates, Xingyu – a major automotive lighting maker in eastern China – has severely penalised four of its executives and promised to help the former employees find new jobs. Two of the firm’s top executives received
A construction worker has died after falling while erecting scaffolding, marking the city’s 19th fatal accident for the construction industry and second to involve truss-out platforms this year, according to police and a concern group. The force said it received a report at 11.39am on Friday that a
The Hong Kong government will not cap the number of admissions under its talent schemes, with the labour minister saying “the more, the better” amid a global race for skilled workers, despite rising concerns over whether the city can absorb the influx. Wrapping up a five-day visit to Hong Kong by ov