HONG KONG: Experts were called for close monitoring of how the news H1N1 flu virus evolves in coming months in the southern hemisphere as that may help answer questions that have eluded scientist for decades.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Experts have called for close monitoring of how the new H1N1 flu virus evolves in coming months in the southern hemisphere as that may help answer questions that have eluded scientists for decades.

HONG KONG — Hong Kong authorities on Thursday ordered all primary schools in the city to be closed for two weeks after the first cluster of local swine flu cases was found.

HONGKONG: Authorities yesterday ordered primary schools here to be closed for two weeks after the first cluster of local swine flu cases was found.

First A (H1N1) infection in HK
HONG KONG: Health authorities yesterday reported the first case of A (H1N1) where the person had caught the virus within the city. Thomas Tsang, controller of the Centre for Health Protection, said the patient, a 55-year-old man, had caught the virus at an event which another known swine flu patient [...]

Hong Kong : Traces of cocaine have been found in cans of Red Bull, a few days after Taiwanese authorities confiscated some 18,000 cartons of the energy drink.

HONGKONG: Experts were carrying out tests yesterday on dead birds washed up on Hongkong beaches amid fears of a huge unreported avian-flu outbreak in neighbouring mainland China.

HONG KONG: Researchers in China and the United States have identified mutations of two genes which appear to make ethnic Chinese more susceptible to lung cancer, they wrote in the journal Cancer. Their finding involves two genes, ABCB1 and ABCC1.

HONG KONG: More than 80,000 chickens will be slaughtered here after bird flu was found in a poultry farm, the first outbreak at a farm here in nearly six years, health authorities said yesterday.