Police, ICAC and the Buildings Department have refused to take any action against two Kowloon bamboo scaffold sites found using apparently forged safety documents. Two forged safety certificates were discovered during an […]
The tragic discovery of a decade-old skeleton in an apartment in Portland Street yesterday revealed Buildings Department had targeted the building for inspection in 2019, visiting that specific apartment at least once […]
A staggering 175,000 fire safety directions issued by the government remain ignored or outstanding as at the end of 2023, representing 45% of the total number of fire safety directions ever issued […]
Hours after a deadly inferno swept through a Nathan Road building killing five and injuring 35, the government revealed it had slapped fire safety orders on the owners multiple times since 2008 […]
In what must surely count as the most egregious case of misplaced priorities in Hong Kong this year, the Incorporated Owners of 147 Caine Road pressured a ground floor shop to remove […]
Almost 4,000 potentially dangerous buildings have illegally ignored mandatory inspection notices for up to 10 years, with the majority of outstanding safety notices issued well before the pandemic and hundreds as long […]
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 […]
