Residents forced to evacuate from their homes after a wartime bomb was found at a construction site in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay have said the government’s handling of the emergency was smooth, although some restaurants have complained about the loss in business. At the Quarry Bay Community Hall, where dozens of people took shelter on…
A wartime bomb unearthed in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay neighbourhood was “very likely” to have been dropped by the US military on April 2, 1945, with its explosive power “practically intact” because of high production standards, experts have said. The 1,000lb (454kg) bomb that included 227kg of TNT explosives was found on Friday at a…
Residents forced to evacuate from their homes after a wartime bomb was found at a construction site in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay have said the government’s handling of the emergency was smooth, although some restaurants have complained about the loss in business. At the Quarry Bay Community Hall, where dozens of people took shelter on…
A “highly dangerous” wartime bomb discovered in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay on Friday was successfully disposed of after a nine-hour effort at around noon on Saturday. The defusing process, which started at 2am after evacuating some 6,000 residents from 18 buildings near the Pan Hoi Street construction site where the bomb was found, took longer…
A “highly dangerous” wartime bomb discovered in Quarry Bay on Friday is expected to be cleared by 2pm on Saturday, the Post has learned. A source familiar with the matter told the Post that officers from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau said the defusing process was still ongoing at 8.42am on Saturday. “The bomb’s shell…
© Agenzia Nova – Reproduction reserved Approximately 6 residents of 18 apartment buildings in Hong Kong’s Quarry Bay district will be evacuated by 23 p.m. today, September 19, after a 454-kilogram World War II-era aerial bomb was found at a construction site on Pan Hoi Street. The Eastern District Police Chief Superintendent announced the move….
The decline in Hong Kong’s office rents slowed in the second quarter amid rising leasing demand from finance and law firms, but analysts cautioned this trend was unlikely to substantially benefit landlords as prices are yet to recover. Overall grade A office rents fell 1 per cent quarter on quarter compared with steeper declines in…
Who was Ha Bik-chuen, who died in Hong Kong in 2009? He was many things: autodidact, maverick artist, entrepreneur and hoarder. Much of what has been written about him, and many of the shows of his work, in the years since his death have focused on the materials found in his overflowing studio in To…
Members of 1880 Hong Kong, a Singapore-based private club that recently shut down after only seven months in operation, have been offered a luxury lifeline by landlord Swire Properties. The club told members on Thursday that they would be able to have joining fees waived for The Refinery, a club in Swire’s Taikoo Place that…
The Hong Kong branch of a Singapore-based private club that closed after less than a year in business is undergoing liquidation with about HK$20 million (US$2.5 million) of debts, former employees have said. Financial difficulties forced 1880 Hong Kong, located at Two Taikoo Place in Quarry Bay, to shut its doors on Friday last week,…