Beijing’s new National Security office in Hong Kong, the repurposed Metropark Hotel, riled neighbours in Causeway Bay on its first official day of operation, by closing roads and bus stops for its […]
NEW NATSEC HQ RILES RESIDENTS WITH BUS STOP CLOSURES
HK$293M TUNNEL CAMERAS ARE BLIND TO SPEEDING, PHONE DISTRACTION
Drivers speeding or driving dangerously through tunnels will escape the notice of a new HK$293 million surveillance project at Aberdeen and Tate’s Cairn tunnels, Transit Jam has learned, with the government’s proposed […]
TAXI DRIVER KILLS CYCLIST IN JUNCTION SMASH
A taxi driver who failed to stop at a junction hit and killed a cyclist yesterday morning in Hong Kong’s second fatal traffic accident involving taxis in three days. The cyclist, Mr […]
TAXI PASSENGER KILLED AS DRIVER LOSES CONTROL
A taxi passenger was killed and his companion injured as their driver lost control and rammed into concrete barriers on the Tuen Mun highway last night (3 July). The accident happened at […]
CORRUPTION CONVICTION TAINTS ‘SMART CITY’ RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Magistrates today convicted the R&D boss of the government’s smart city research institute with corruption. Dr Vincent Lau Man-kin, R&D director of Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was […]
MAN LYING IN HENNESSY ROAD KILLED BY BUS
Police are searching for clues after a 29-year-old man was struck by a bus and killed this early morning (2 July). According to reports, the man, surnamed Cheung, was lying in the […]
FIRST ETHNIC MINORITY LEGCO HOPEFUL REJECTS “WE BURN”, FOCUSES ON LIVEABILITY
“Liveability before politics” – a campaign concept that has seen Hong Konger Jeffrey Andrews called “not yellow enough” and which, in a city sharply divided by the single issue of Hong Kong’s […]
NATIONAL SECURITY LAW ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Hong Kong’s new National Security Law, the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” was gazetted tonight (30 June), becoming Hong […]
EXTRA 2 MILLION WILL BENEFIT FROM RELAXED TRANSIT SUBSIDY THRESHOLD
Commuters will be able to claw back a third of all monthly travel expenses over HK$200 made on the same Octopus card, as the government relaxes the threshold for its Public Transport […]
AIR POLLUTION KILLS 35 EVERY WEEK, CLAIMS XR
Thirty-five pairs of shoes in a graveyard: a graphic demonstration of the number of weekly air pollution deaths in Hong Kong, estimated by Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists who held an event at […]
