{"id":157820,"date":"2026-01-05T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=157820"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:36:16","slug":"new-fees-and-penalties-take-effect-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=157820","title":{"rendered":"New fees and penalties take effect on New Year&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1838147_1_M_20251231164143.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>New public healthcare service fees, along with increased penalties for traffic violations and smoking offences, will take effect in Hong Kong on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A major reform of public healthcare service charges will be implemented at midnight on the first day of the New Year. <\/p>\n<p>Health officials said the standard charge for accident and emergency wards will rise from HK$180 to HK$400&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1838147-20260101.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New public healthcare service fees, along with increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}