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 […]
The government is taking steps to reduce widespread aggravation and distress from renovation noise, with new laws proposed in LegCo today to quell the racket from some 200,000 flats a year undergoing […]
Labour Department (LD) has initiated five prosecutions against the “occupiers and employers” of a maternal health clinic car park where a woman was crushed to death under a sliding gate last August. […]
Two workers were killed yesterday as a double-decker bus driven by a 28-year-old man ploughed into their work truck parked in the left lane of a highway exit they were cleaning. The […]
The department responsible for building site safety has refused to respond to questions about a construction beam striking a packed-out morning commuter bus in a wreck that injured four people, including a […]
A man was killed by a cement truck driver this afternoon outside a concrete batching plant the government had unsuccessfully tried to shut down over nuisance and “malpractice” concerns. Mr Chan, 63, […]
