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DRUNK TESLA DRIVER DEMANDS COMPENSATION FROM ACTOR AFTER HEAD-ON SMASH, ARRESTED

By James Ockenden on August 13, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

HK ISLAND GETS ITS FIRST CYCLE TRACK, FREE HARBOURFRONT BIKE RENTAL SCHEME TO LAUNCH “END AUGUST”

By James Ockenden on August 10, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

27 DRIVERS IGNORE FATALLY-WOUNDED DOG IN MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, POLICE ARREST ONE

By James Ockenden on August 9, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

GUARDS AND BYSTANDER HURT AS DRIVER SMASHES INTO PUBLIC HOUSING ESTATE SECURITY BOOTH

By James Ockenden on August 4, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

NO ARRESTS AFTER SCHOOL BUS RUNS OVER 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL

By James Ockenden on August 2, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

JOHN LEE’S HUGE PETROL CARS ARE “ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY” SAYS CE’S OFFICE

By James Ockenden on July 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

CORRUPTION CONVICTION TAINTS ‘SMART CITY’ RESEARCH INSTITUTE

By James Ockenden on July 3, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on July 2, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on July 1, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

“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

By James Ockenden on June 30, 2020 • ( 11 Comments )

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

By James Ockenden on June 29, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By James Ockenden on June 28, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

CARBON FOOTPRINT FROM TRANSPORT UP 20% SINCE 1990

By James Ockenden on June 27, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
Graph of carbon emissions by Hong Kong transport sector from 1990 to 2018

Greenhouse gases (GHG) from transport have risen almost 20% since 1990, now accounting for almost a fifth of the city’s 40 million tonne carbon footprint in 2018, according to new figures released […]

CENTRAL-HUNG HOM FERRY TO RESTART SUNDAY AFTER 9-YR ABSENCE

By James Ockenden on June 26, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Sunday morning will see the long-awaited resumption of the Central-Hung Hom ferry service, with new facilities at Hung Hom (South) Ferry Pier and Central Pier No. 8 (Western Berth). Under the new […]

LAWMAKER CRIES FOUL OVER KOWLOON CITY PARKING REPURPOSING

By James Ockenden on June 25, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

DAB lawmaker Michael Luk Chung-hung has called out the illegal repurposing of Kowloon City residential car parks as shops, restaurants and schools, with a question to LegCo demanding to know why the […]

PEDESTRIAN KILLED CROSSING CASTLE PEAK ROAD

By James Ockenden on June 23, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
Missing railings and a pedestrian footbridge where a man was knocked down and killed by a taxi in Hong Kong June 22

A 40-year-old man, Mr Mak, died crossing Castle Peak Road in Tsuen Wan in the early hours of yesterday (22 June). A Tuen Mun-bound taxi, driven by Mr Wong, 58, knocked Mak […]

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DRUNK TESLA DRIVER DEMANDS COMPENSATION FROM ACTOR AFTER HEAD-ON SMASH, ARRESTED

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  • DRUNK TESLA DRIVER DEMANDS COMPENSATION FROM ACTOR AFTER HEAD-ON SMASH, ARRESTED August 13, 2022
  • HK ISLAND GETS ITS FIRST CYCLE TRACK, FREE HARBOURFRONT BIKE RENTAL SCHEME TO LAUNCH “END AUGUST” August 10, 2022
  • 27 DRIVERS IGNORE FATALLY-WOUNDED DOG IN MIDDLE OF THE ROAD, POLICE ARREST ONE August 9, 2022
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