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An officer critically injured after falling 10 metres (33 feet) from a flyover near Tuen Mun when trying to avoid an oncoming bus “did what he needed to do”, Hong Kong’s police chief said on Sunday. Commissioner of Police Joe Chow Yat-ming said the constable, 31, had regained consciousness but remained in the intensive care…
More than 22 hectares (54 acres) of ecologically valuable land have been damaged in Hong Kong’s South Lantau and northwestern New Territories, local groups have found, warning that poorly planned tourism development in these areas will worsen the harm. Greenpeace and Liber Research Community, an NGO focusing on development issues, released findings of a survey…