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3 DEAD, 90 INJURED IN DEADLIEST LUNAR NEW YEAR ON THE ROADS SINCE 2006

By James Ockenden on January 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

CHINA CONCRETE AND FORMER JUSTICE SEC FAIL HIGH COURT BID AGAINST GOVT SHUTDOWN ORDER: YET BANDIT PLANT STILL RUNNING

By James Ockenden on January 21, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

TRIAD WHO ATTACKED BUS FOUNDER ARRESTED IN DRUG FACTORY HOME, $2M COCAINE AND CASH SEIZED

By James Ockenden on January 13, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

A TAXING WALK NO MORE: GOVT WILL ADD GREEN MAN CROSSING OUTSIDE NEW TAX BUILDING

By James Ockenden on January 10, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

GOVT CLAMPS DOWN ON ITS HARBOURFRONT BIKE TRIAL CONTRACTOR, ADMITS “DEFECTIVE BIKES”

By James Ockenden on January 10, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

11-YEAR-OLD GIRL RUN DOWN ON STREET, 7-SEATER DRIVER ARRESTED

By James Ockenden on January 7, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

HYD STEPS UP, PROPOSES 90-STRONG OFFICE FOR NEGLECTED PEDESTRIAN PROJECTS

By James Ockenden on November 27, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Highways Department (HyD) has proposed setting up a new “walkability office” with four directors and 89 officers to reinvigorate over 500 pedestrian infrastructure projects pushed to the bottom of the pile by […]

HOUSING AUTHORITY FREEZES CAR PARK FEES FOR SECOND YEAR RUNNING

By James Ockenden on November 25, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Citing a sluggish market, the Housing Authority (HA) will freeze its car park fees for the second year running, pinning prices for some 31,600 spaces at January 2019 levels until 31 December […]

LAMBO DRIVER PUNCHES CABBIE, 81, IN THE FACE AFTER SMASHING INTO HIS TAXI

By James Ockenden on November 24, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

A taxi driver suffered mouth, eye and facial injuries after being punched by a young Lamborghini driver who had driven into the back of the elderly driver’s cab. According to police reports, […]

POLICE RACING CRACKDOWN: 1 IN 5 DRIVERS TESTED DRUNK, A THIRD OF SPEEDERS LET OFF

By James Ockenden on November 23, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

One in five drivers failed a breath test during a police sting operation against illegal street racing and drink driving this month, with 66 drivers out of 351 testing over the legal […]

“ANTI-MAINLAND” BOTS FLOOD CLIMATE CONSULTATION

By James Ockenden on November 23, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Bots and messages coordinated through protest forum LIHKG swamped Hong Kong’s landmark climate consultation with calls to axe low-carbon Chinese electricity โ€“ and while one bot attack was thwarted by the Council […]

OTTO POON COLLEAGUE IS NEW URA DIRECTOR: PRO-GOV LAWMAKERS ALSO APPOINTED

By James Ockenden on November 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

A director at Otto Poon’s beleaguered engineering firm Analogue Holdings and two pro-Beijing lawmakers have taken three non-executive director roles at the Urban Renewal Authority (URA), the government confirmed today. Analogue Holdings […]

DRIVER ARRESTED AFTER TAXI PLOUGHS INTO PEDESTRIAN ON QUEENSWAY, KILLING HER

By James Ockenden on November 20, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Police arrested a taxi driver for dangerous driving causing death after his taxi struck and killed a woman on Queensway yesterday evening. The fatal crash happened at 8.29pm, as Ms Ng, 76, […]

CYCLING SHOWDOWN LOOMS AS TRANSPORT DEPT DIGS IN AGAINST GOVT’S CLIMATE VISION

By James Ockenden on November 17, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Transport Departmentโ€™s long-held position that cycling along Nathan Road โ€“ or anywhere in Hong Kongโ€™s urban areas โ€“ is โ€˜not recommendedโ€™ clashes with the governmentโ€™s latest climate change vision Battle lines have […]

SCIENTISTS EXPOSE INJUSTICES IN DECARBONISING, WARN OF “CARBON-LITERATE ELITE”

By James Ockenden on November 14, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The rapid shift to “low-carbon” societies may worsen social inequalities and exclusions, with electric vehicles (EVs) widening class gaps and leading to more driving, according to research studying the fairness of low-carbon […]

HONG KONG’S SOLE ELECTRIC TRUCK “UNSUITABLE FOR PUBLIC ROADS”

By James Ockenden on November 13, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

The only electric truck ever trialled through the government’s New Energy Transport Fund (NETF) scheme is not used on public roads over concern of battery life and coping with hills when loaded, […]

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3 DEAD, 90 INJURED IN DEADLIEST LUNAR NEW YEAR ON THE ROADS SINCE 2006

CHINA CONCRETE AND FORMER JUSTICE SEC FAIL HIGH COURT BID AGAINST GOVT SHUTDOWN ORDER: YET BANDIT PLANT STILL RUNNING

TRIAD WHO ATTACKED BUS FOUNDER ARRESTED IN DRUG FACTORY HOME, $2M COCAINE AND CASH SEIZED

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  • 3 DEAD, 90 INJURED IN DEADLIEST LUNAR NEW YEAR ON THE ROADS SINCE 2006 January 22, 2023
  • CHINA CONCRETE AND FORMER JUSTICE SEC FAIL HIGH COURT BID AGAINST GOVT SHUTDOWN ORDER: YET BANDIT PLANT STILL RUNNING January 21, 2023
  • TRIAD WHO ATTACKED BUS FOUNDER ARRESTED IN DRUG FACTORY HOME, $2M COCAINE AND CASH SEIZED January 13, 2023
  • A TAXING WALK NO MORE: GOVT WILL ADD GREEN MAN CROSSING OUTSIDE NEW TAX BUILDING January 10, 2023
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