Hong Kong authorities have prepared a quarantine facility on Lantau Island as they step up efforts to guard against the potential spread of the deadly Ebola virus following an outbreak in Central Africa. The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said on Tuesday it was working closely with stakeholders to implement stringent prevention and control measures after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern”. The latest outbreak began...

An eight-year-old girl has died after collapsing at her home on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. Emergency personnel arrived at the house in Lo Uk Tsuen Village, Pui O, and found the child unconscious after police received a report from her mother at 8.27am on Wednesday. Paramedics took her to the Mui Wo Clinic for resuscitation before she was airlifted to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital in Chai Wan.

A 51-year-old hiker who went missing on Lantau Island has been found dead after a two-day search amid a heatwave in Hong Kong. Authorities launched a search for the man, surnamed Chan, on Thursday after his wife made a report to police that morning. She said he had not returned home after leaving for a hike on Wednesday morning.

Hong Kong authorities launched a search on Thursday for a 51-year-old man who failed to return home after setting out on a hike on Lantau Island the previous day, when the city recorded its highest temperature of the year. The man, surnamed Chan, left home on Wednesday morning, telling his family he planned to tackle section 8 of the Lantau Trail, which connects Shek Pik Reservoir with Kau Ling Chung on the southern part of the outlying island. But he did not return overnight, prompting his wife...