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CHINA CONCRETE BANNED FROM “AREA 132” PLANT BID, GOVT REVEALS

By James Ockenden on March 29, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

HKU STUDY RECOMMENDS MORE RAILINGS TO STAVE OFF BUS CRASH INJURIES

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

HK GOVT DEFENDS NEW 91%-MALE ADVISORY COUNCIL, SAYS PANEL RECRUITS ON “MERIT”

By James Ockenden on March 19, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

PROBATION FOR HOSPITAL FOREMAN WHOSE GRANDDAUGHTER DIED IN MYSTERY E-TRIKE FALL

By James Ockenden on March 16, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

“BUSY HK ISLAND ROADS, PEDESTRIANS AND KERBSIDE ACTIVITIES” EXCUSE HIGH CITYBUS/NWFB CRASH RATE: GOVT

By James Ockenden on March 14, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

FEHD: “NO SUSPECTED BREACHING OF CLEANLINESS OFFENCES” AT ILLEGAL CHINA CONCRETE PLANTS

By James Ockenden on March 13, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

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 – 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 Department’s long-held position that cycling along Nathan Road – or anywhere in Hong Kong’s urban areas – is ‘not recommended’ clashes with the government’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, […]

GOVT CLUELESS ON CYCLE TRACK USE, ADMITS SEC DEV

By James Ockenden on November 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Officials have no idea how many cyclists use Hong Kong’s cycle paths, admitted Secretary for Development Michael Wong Wai-lun in LegCo today, after some tough questions on the city’s biking network and […]

LAWMAKERS DEMAND EMERGENCY TRANSPORT PANEL ON JOURNALIST ARREST

By James Ockenden on November 10, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Four lawmakers are demanding an emergency meeting of the LegCo Transport Panel to discuss the issue of a journalist who was arrested and charged with making false statements while accessing transport data. […]

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CHINA CONCRETE BANNED FROM “AREA 132” PLANT BID, GOVT REVEALS

71-YR-OLD WOMAN HIT BY DUMP TRUCK DRIVER OUTSIDE MINIBUS STATION, FATALLY DRAGGED FOR 100 METRES

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