A children’s soft-play venue was found with locked and blocked fire exits during an investigation into one of two malls warned by Fire Services Department (FSD) to improve fire safety. At Real […]
Police, ICAC and the Buildings Department have refused to take any action against two Kowloon bamboo scaffold sites found using apparently forged safety documents. Two forged safety certificates were discovered during an […]
Less than a week after a housing estate inferno killed 151 people, Hong Kong’s Labour Department is already taking a lenient approach in its citywide investigation into fire safety at 61 bamboo […]
Five workers were hospitalised yesterday afternoon after a crane carrying a two-tonne concrete block collapsed and fell around 20 metres at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen Innovation and Technology Park (HSITP) being constructed in […]
An imported worker at Hong Kong’s “third runway” project was yesterday charged with bribing 10 fellow workers to help them keep their jobs in Hong Kong under the imported labour scheme. Chen […]
Hours after a deadly inferno swept through a Nathan Road building killing five and injuring 35, the government revealed it had slapped fire safety orders on the owners multiple times since 2008 […]
Cowboy construction firm Aggressive Construction has been blamed for six worker deaths in the last 42 months, the latest tragedy happening yesterday at a government worksite near West Kowloon. A 56-year-old electrician […]
Almost 4,000 potentially dangerous buildings have illegally ignored mandatory inspection notices for up to 10 years, with the majority of outstanding safety notices issued well before the pandemic and hundreds as long […]
“Under-performing” concrete plant operators, including firms such as China Concrete who have lost their environmental permits, will be banned from taking part in competitive tenders for a new concrete plant at the […]
The Labour Department has hit back at criticism over its complex reporting and public complaint procedures, saying the process is “definitely not to cut our workload or somehow put members of the […]
