A 47-year-old taxi passenger was hurled from a taxi and killed as the taxi he was riding smashed into an illegally parked container truck in Wong Tai Sin. Mr Jin was riding […]
TOURISM CHIEF UNAWARE OF WEST KOWLOON DECISION TO RAZE PALACE MUSEUM LAWNS FOR CAR PARK
The Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) is the latest organisation found not to be consulted on the controversial decision of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) to concrete over prime waterfront lawns […]
$1000 FINE FOR MAN CONVICTED OF ASSAULTING TRANSIT JAM EDITOR
A man who attacked Transit Jam founder and editor James Ockenden has been convicted of assault and fined $1000. The violent incident happened in September 2020, after Ockenden, who was walking with […]
COPS CATCH JUST 150 VEHICLES IN 10-DAY QRC PARKING CLAMPDOWN
An illegal parking crackdown on Queen’s Road Central, boasting new video surveillance and street officers, has netted just 152 parking tickets over 10 days. Hong Kong Island traffic police say they mounted […]
245 CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS CAUGHT UP IN POLICE TRAFFIC CRACKDOWN
Hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians in Kowloon West were caught up in a police crackdown on illegal parking and other road-related offences on Tuesday. Those on foot or two wheels accounted for […]
WATER WORLD BANS CARS AND UBERS, COPS WARN MOTORISTS NOT TO PARK ILLEGALLY NEARBY
Hong Kong’s much-anticipated Water World opens to the public on Tuesday, but one attraction won’t be open: the car park. Ocean Park says car park operations are suspended until further notice and […]
“JUST A MINUTE” WON’T BE TOLERATED: POLICE GIVE 17,900 TICKETS IN PARKING CRACKDOWN
Police have conducted five operations against illegal parking across the territory in the last week, giving around 17,900 parking tickets and towing 43 cars, trucks and motorbikes. The most prolific bust came […]
GANGS UNFAZED BY TRIAD PARKING BUST, BUSINESS BOOMING
Gangs trafficking public space for huge profits appeared unfazed by a weekend police crackdown on a Yau Ma Tei gang, with business as usual at two notorious Yau Tsim Mong car jockey […]
CLOSE CALL: FINANCIAL SECRETARY’S ILLEGALLY PARKED LEXUS DRAWS CRITICISM
The Financial Secretary’s official Lexus was caught lawbreaking through Prince Edward yesterday, first stopping illegally to pick up the Secretary and then cutting up a bus from the inside lane to cross […]
CHIEF SEC’S CHAUFFEUR REPRIMANDED FOR ILLEGAL PARKING
Hong Kong’s second-in-command came under fire this week after his car was spotted illegally parked on Queen’s Road Central for about an hour last Tuesday afternoon while he visited a National Security […]