A Hong Kong court has granted bail to a driver suspected to have deliberately crashed his coach on the Shenzhen Bay Bridge, injuring 17 passengers, with the magistrate urging the man’s family to “pay extra attention” to his condition. Lee Kai-po, 63, appeared before West Kowloon Court on a charge of dangerous driving causing grievous…
A Hong Kong coach driver has been charged after his vehicle crashed on the Shenzhen Bay Bridge, leaving 17 passengers with minor injuries on Sunday. Hong Kong police said on Monday that the man, surnamed Lee, 63, had been charged with dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm. Police said the bus had been travelling along…
Suri Chan Tin-wing, a first-year English major at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, found herself struggling to write her first creative short story – a 300-word assignment for the compulsory course “Introduction to Literature”. Throughout her secondary schooling at Yan Chai Hospital Law Chan Chor Si College in Kowloon Bay, only science subjects, such…
The Northern Metropolis is in the news almost every day. The big policy focus for the administration, it is determining a new future for Hong Kong. Part of the New Territories, which were dubbed “a land between” in the 1980s, the area was once little more than a rural leftover between urban Hong Kong and…
Hong Kong customs has arrested three people after it seized HK$18 million (US$2.3 million) worth of suspected ketamine hidden inside baby car seats in two shipping containers from the Netherlands and Spain. The Customs and Excise Department said on Thursday that its officers found 36.2kg (79.8lbs) of the drug while inspecting two seaborne consolidated containers…
Hong Kong police have apprehended two people at Shenzhen Bay Port in connection with the murder of a 51-year-old man in August, bringing the number of arrestees linked to the case up to 27. The force said on Saturday that the pair, two men aged 29 and 32, were arrested a day earlier at the…
Hong Kong police have made their 16th arrest in connection with last month’s deadly Tai Po blaze, detaining a man on suspicion of manslaughter. Police earlier arrested 15 people in connection with the fire, which engulfed seven of eight scaffolding-clad residential buildings in the Wang Fuk Court housing estate on November 26, killing 161 and…
A fire broke out at a flat in a public housing estate in Hong Kong’s Tin Shui Wai early on Saturday, leaving a man severely injured, with more than 200 residents evacuated. Authorities received multiple calls at 3.43am on Saturday from residents reporting the blaze at Tin Chak Estate in Tin Shui Wai, with occasional…
The crackdown on public housing abuse in Hong Kong has received broad public support as more rental units were recovered and reassigned to those with genuine need. But as more tenants are evicted for flouting the rules, there have also been calls for greater sensitivity in handling families with special needs. The sad outcome of…
Hongkongers are likely to have already seen Steven Harrison Stratman’s videos of him exploring every library in the city on their Instagram feeds. In his clips, Stratman – better known as @authorshstratman online – captures everyday scenes of libraries from Shau Kei Wan to Tiu Keng Leng, from children flipping through picture books to the…