A street-cleaning water bowser rammed into the side of a bus in Sham Shui Po this afternoon in a freak crash that injured 23 passengers, aged 5 to 85, and the passenger […]
FORMER BUS EXEC SLAMS “WORK TO RULE” BUS STRIKE
Bus drivers should always “work to rule” says consultant and former bus company executive Alok Jain in response to a online call for a work-to-rule protest at a bus driver’s arrest last […]
UBER FACEMASK LIE STRANDS PREGNANT WOMAN
An Uber driver falsely claimed a pregnant woman wasn’t wearing a face mask as justification for abruptly cancelling a booked trip in the early hours of this morning (5 September). Uber sent […]
SECOND BIKE DEATH IN TWO DAYS AS MAN KILLED IN REPULSE BAY
A rider died after colliding with a private car and a truck on Repulse Bay Road late yesterday afternoon, the second motorbike death in two days. According to police, the 33 year-old […]
RIDER KILLED IN ROADWORKS SMASH
A man riding a motorcycle died after ploughing into the back of a slow-moving roadworks convoy around 10 km east of the airport on Lantau last last night. Mr Yu, 43, was […]
SPECIAL TAGS FOR NEGATIVE-TEST TAXI DRIVERS, APP BADGES CONSIDERED
Taxi drivers taking the government’s Universal Community Testing Programme (UCTP) Covid-19 test and who test negative will earn a special tag to be displayed in their taxis. The tag, which gives the […]
7TH BOUNDARY CROSSING AIMS TO DELIVER GREATER BAY “ONE-HOUR LIVING CIRCLE”
A key piece of the China government’s “One-Hour Living Circle” vision for the Greater Bay Area falls into place on Wednesday as Hong Kong’s seventh Boundary Control Point (BCP) opens for business […]
HYBRID MINIBUS EMITS 10 TIMES THE POLLUTION OF OLD BUS, COSTS DOUBLE TO RUN
A hybrid green minibus plying routes between Kwun Tong and Lok Wah Estate had running costs more than twice those of its 15-year-old LPG counterpart, according to the final report of the […]
RIDER KILLED IN SHA TIN SCOOTER SMASH
A pool of blood and a frenzied pile of surgical gloves, gauze and paramedic swabs were the only clues to a desperate fight for life on a Sha Tin residential street early […]
TWO MORE PEDESTRIANS KILLED BY HEAVY VEHICLES IN LAST 36 HOURS
Large vehicles have claimed two more pedestrian victims in the last 36 hours: a private roadworks vehicle in Tsing Yi yesterday afternoon knocked down and killed a lady it had just dropped […]