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 […]
NO MORE ACCIDENTS: GOVT TO CONSIDER NEW CRASH REPORTING LANGUAGE
$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 […]
DRIVER KILLED IN DEADLY RED RAIN COACH CRASH
A coach driver has died of multiple injuries after his coach flipped in heavy rain this morning. According to police, the 33-year-old driver was solo in the coach travelling along Castle Peak […]
CCP’S BIRTHDAY “BUS” IS FOUND TO BE PHOTOSHOPPED TRAM
A picture of a promotional “bus” bedecked in red for the 100th anniversary of the China Communist Party (CCP) was found to be a fake, after netizens revealed the true picture behind […]
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 […]
CLOSE CALL: FINANCIAL SECRETARY’S ILLEGALLY PARKED LEXUS DRAWS CRITICISM
The Financial Secretary’s official Lexus was caught lawbreaking through Prince Edward yesterday, first stopping illegally to pick up the Secretary and then cutting up a bus from the inside lane to cross […]
“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 […]
