news Scmp World 2026-07-31

Hong Kong residents sign directives as new end-of-life law takes effect.

Hong Kong's new end-of-life law allows residents, like 89-year-old Chan Yiu-kuen, to sign advance medical directives to refuse life-sustaining treatments.

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