Three homeowners at Hong Kong’s Redhill Peninsula have received fines totalling HK$275,000 (US$35,270) for their involvement in illegal building works. The Buildings Department said on Monday that the fines were handed down by Eastern Court last Thursday after the owners of three detached houses in the affluent neighbourhood pleaded guilty to carrying out unauthorised building…
The Office of the Ombudsman has raised concerns over frequent landslides occurring at government man-made slopes in Hong Kong, highlighting that one location had four landslides in different areas within five years. In a direct investigation report released on Thursday, the office reviewed nine serious landslides that occurred since 2008. It found that most slopes…
The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 Thursday as rescue teams raced to reach survivors isolated by the disaster with hundreds of people still unaccounted for across the region. A bridge damaged by flash floods is seen in Bener Meriah district, Aceh province in Indonesia…
Rescuers and aid workers in central Vietnam raced to reach isolated areas that were battered by floods and landslides, killing at least 37 people, as another typhoon was on track to make landfall later this week, officials said on Monday. Typhoon Kalmaegi is forecast to rapidly strengthen as it heads toward Vietnam’s central coast.(REUTERS) Days…
(Reuters) -Floods and landslides unleashed by unrelenting rain in India’s eastern hill region of Darjeeling killed at least 18 people, after washing away homes, roads and bridges, authorities said, while the death toll in neighbouring Nepal rose to 50. Several people were still missing on Monday, as relief and restoration work got underway, said local…
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers were scouring India’s northeastern tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling on Monday for missing people a day after landslides triggered by heavy downpours killed at least 24, officials said. Teams of Indian army and disaster force rescuers were searching for the missing who are feared trapped under mounds of debris, said…
Hong Kong authorities have called on residents not to swim at Deep Water Bay Beach and Repulse Bay Beach after a sewage pipe split in two during Super Typhoon Ragasa. The Drainage Services Department said on Thursday that it had immediately stopped using the 450mm-diameter sewage main at the Mills and Chung Path near Deep…
Published on: Aug 15, 2025 12:35 pm IST At least 23 people were killed in the past 24 hours in mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, while seven were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Heavy monsoon rain triggered landslides and flash floods across northern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and leaving many others trapped in the debris…
Hong Kong authorities have urged the public to avoid hiking and stay away from streams and large trees in the coming days, following recent record-breaking downpours that have heightened the risk of landslides and flash floods. The warning came after the city’s second-longest black rainstorm warning, which lasted for more than 11 hours on Tuesday….
Weather forecasting is not an exact science. It becomes even more difficult when decision-making is involved, as reflected in the debate over whether the government should have declared Tuesday’s downpour as “extreme conditions” so workers did not have to go to their jobs during hazardous weather. With the highest black signal in place for more…