Police have given just a handful of tickets to cars illegally driving in car-free Mui Wo villages in the last six years, despite residents’ claims of a daily parade of cars and […]
POLICE NEGLIGENCE ON MUI WO ILLEGAL CAR RACKET EXPOSED, GOVT SILENT
NO MORE ACCIDENTS: GOVT TO CONSIDER NEW CRASH REPORTING LANGUAGE
The government could stop using the word “accident” to describe road crashes, with Hong Kong’s chief transport advisor Professor Stephen Cheung tabling advice from other jurisdictions on collision reporting and road safety […]
$2 FARE EXTENDS TO 60+ FROM FEBRUARY 2022
The government will extend the $2 fare subsidy scheme to those aged between 60 and 64 from 27 February 2022, with those estimated 600,000 people required to register for a JoyYou personalised […]
LANTAU TOMORROW COULD BE CAR-FREE, SUGGESTS GOVT
The government today suggested its artificial island project, dubbed Lantau Tomorrow Vision, could be car-free. The revelation came during a press conference promoting the government’s new Clean Air Plan this afternoon. Development […]
GOVERNMENT GIVES UP ENFORCING ENGINE IDLING LAW
After giving just three tickets a month against idling engines in a decade, the government today said it was giving up on the impotent idling engine law, claiming it would no longer […]
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT: POKER PLAYERS FOLD AS BOATS BURN AROUND THEM
A late-night poker game ended with a Marine Police rescue as a dramatic blaze swept through 30 boats in Aberdeen South Typhoon Shelter on Saturday night Mr Lee (an alias), 34, says […]
NO PROSECUTION SINCE 2007: OMBUDSMAN TO PROBE GOVT FAILURE ON ABANDONED VEHICLES
The Ombudsman is to probe government failure to act on abandoned vehicles illegally occupying government land, 14 years since the last successful prosecution of an abandoned vehicle case. “For years, the government […]
“INNOVATIVE AND STEALTHY”: SMUGGLERS PICK E-BIKE FOR LAST-MILE SPEEDBOAT TRANSFER
An “electric bicycle”, as labelled by Customs, was the last-mile solution of choice for a gang of smugglers, who used the machine in their midnight plan to shift two truckloads of illicit […]
NEW VEHICLE TEST COMPLEX HACKED, PERSONAL DATA STOLEN ON 28,000 VEHICLES
Hackers have attacked the government’s new Transport Department Vehicle Examination Complex (TDVEC), stealing private data on as many as 28,000 vehicles. Full data on vehicles booked in for tests, including vehicle registration […]
BREAKING: SECOND WOMAN ARRESTED OVER SHA TIN BUS SMASH
Police have arrested a second woman linked to Saturday’s fatal Sha Tin bus smash, a day after she turned herself in to authorities. Dashcam footage had shown Ms Wong, 29, driving her […]
