OFFICERS AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. HERE IN SOUTH FLORIDA. A MOBILE APP IS BEING USED TO KEEP STUDENTS SAFE IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, LIKE WHAT HAPPENED AT FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY. IT’S CALLED SAFER WATCH AND IT’S ALREADY BEING USED IN OUR LOCAL SCHOOLS. OUR YASMINE JULMISSE EXPLAINS HOW QUICKLY FIRST RESPONDERS CAN GET…
An investigation into an incident involving an arriving Siberia Airlines cargo plane that disrupted runway operations at Hong Kong International Airport for 90 minutes in 2021 has found that the incident was caused by the crew’s lack of knowledge of an unopened paved area, which they mistook for the assigned runway exit. The report, published…
A 39-year-old Hong Kong hiker has died after being found unconscious along a section of the MacLehose Trail on Sunday. Police received a report at 11.03am about a man who had collapsed near Kau Keng Shan, Tuen Mun, on Section 10 of the renowned 100km (62 mile) trail. A rescue team airlifted him to Pamela…
A 39-year-old Hong Kong hiker has died after being found unconscious along a section of the MacLehose Trail on Sunday. Police received a report at 11.03am about a man who had collapsed near Kau Keng Shan, Tuen Mun, on Section 10 of the renowned 100km (62 mile) trail. A rescue team airlifted him to Pamela…
A woman was injured when she was struck by a light rail train and became trapped under the vehicle in Hong Kong on Saturday evening. Police said the incident occurred at the MTR Light Rail Depot stop in Tuen Mun at around 6pm. The train was travelling in the direction of Yuen Long. According to…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of dangerous driving after his school bus crossed a double line while carrying primary school pupils, nearly colliding with an oncoming vehicle. The 69-year-old man surnamed Tang was arrested on Friday, with police calling his actions “gravely dangerous to other road users”. The driver is currently…
Two burglars who ransacked a luxury residence in Hong Kong’s New Territories are on the run after being spotted by a domestic worker, who screamed upon finding them inside the house in the early hours of Tuesday. Police officers arrived at a detached house in the Baroque at 1-7 Kau To Shan Road in Sha…
One person was injured when an 84-year-old driver mistook his car’s accelerator for the brake and mounted a pavement in Hong Kong on Sunday, according to an insider. The source said the driver was trying to stop his car from sliding forward at the car park entrance of the Kowloon City Plaza shopping centre. “He…
Macau police have arrested two Hong Kong sisters for allegedly taking a bag containing more than HK$612,000 (US$78,700) in cash that was left in a taxi during their visit to the casino hub last month. The two women, who are in their sixties and seventies, were apprehended on Sunday when they returned to Macau via…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man for allegedly attacking five people, including two officers, at City University after he was asked to turn down the volume on his phone. The force said on Tuesday that a 23-year-old man surnamed Wang was arrested a day earlier in Kowloon Tong on suspicion of attacking a woman,…