Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Sports Park is “ready to open” on March 1, authorities have declared after organising almost 20 test runs over the past four months. Officials were speaking on Sunday following the HK$30 billion park’s final large-scale stress test, which involved more than 50,000 participants across three venues. The new park, where British…
About 63,000 people took part in the largest drill yet at Kai Tak Sports Park on Friday night and 80 per cent of them were dispersed within 20 minutes, Hong Kong’s No 2 official said, adding that the exercise provided valuable crowd and transport data. The test run at three venues was held just over…
Hong Kong Sports Commissioner Sam Wong Tak-sum has announced his resignation just a year after taking up the job. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau said on Thursday night Wong had asked to resign for personal reasons, and it had agreed. Wong succeeded Yeung Tak-keung on August 22 last year and will now step down…