This story is now being updated in a live blog. Please visit the link for up-to-the-minute developments. Two people were killed after a cargo plane slid off the north runway of Hong Kong International Airport early on Monday morning, apparently striking a ground vehicle and plunging almost entirely into the sea, police have said. At…
A man has drowned after jumping off a boat that had run aground and started to list during a fishing trip in the waters off Hong Kong’s eastern New Territories. The angler, 47, and his friend set off along Lam Tsuen River aboard a seven-metre-long (23-foot-long) sampan at around 10.30pm on Monday during the Mid-Autumn…
Hong Kong authorities are searching for a man from mainland China who has been missing since Saturday following a hiking trip to Lamma Island, where he last told a colleague that he suspected he had lost his way. Zheng To, 52, had arrived in Hong Kong the same day for a short business trip and…
The body of a 38-year-old expatriate who went missing on Tuesday while canoeing in the sea off Sai Kung has been found, Hong Kong police have confirmed. The force received a report on Friday at 7.54am from a boater who saw a body floating in the water about 500 metres (1,640 feet) away from Sai…
Two Hong Kong hikers were taken to hospital by helicopter after being attacked by bees in two separate incidents on a hill in the southern part of the city on Sunday. Police said they received reports that the hikers were attacked by the bees at Yuk Kwai Shan, prompting the Government Flying Service to send…
Hong Kong was able to collect critical information on Typhoon Wipha thanks to a three-strong government aircrew that flew close to the tropical cyclone’s centre to deploy seven meteorological data detectors, despite the adverse weather and communication troubles. Just a day before Wipha hit Hong Kong and triggered a seven-hour No 10 hurricane signal, the…
A 69-year-old hiker has died after collapsing on Hong Kong’s Wilson Trail in Tsz Wan Shan. The man, surnamed Ho, was found lying unconscious by hikers at around 9.13am on Wednesday on Section 5 of the trail. According to police, paramedics found Ho unresponsive. The Government Flying Service then dispatched a helicopter to airlift him…
An elderly woman was found on Hong Kong’s Kowloon Peak by a rescue team on Monday morning, a day after her family reported her missing. Police said the woman, aged 72, was discovered in a conscious state on the mountain, which is also known as Fei Ngo Shan. She was reported missing by her family…