Hong Kong’s long-awaited Yau Ma Tei section of the Central Kowloon Bypass opened on Sunday, with eight bus routes – including three new ones – to begin operating on Monday, cutting peak-hour travel time between West and East Kowloon from 30 minutes to just five. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Secretary for Transport and Logistics…
An elderly man has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a bus driver after a dispute on a double-decker vehicle. A police spokesman said on Tuesday that the force had received a report the day before in which a 25-year-old driver accused a passenger of physically assaulting him on Argyle Street, Kowloon City. “During the scuffle,…
Four members of a family, including a six-year-old boy, were rushed to hospital after being pulled from a burning flat in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok district late on Thursday. Firefighters found three of them – a man in his eighties, one in his forties and the boy – unconscious in the flat in an old…