Police have charged a man with burglary following three incidents at the Sausalito residential estate and Tai Shui Hang Village. Valuables including gold, jewelry, and cash totaling HK$736,000 were stolen. The suspect will appear in court on Monday.
A 38-year-old air conditioner repairman died in Hong Kong after falling from a building in Kowloon City while working without protective gear. The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon at Billionaire Avant residential estate.
An 87-year-old pedestrian died after being struck by a taxi in Hong Kong. The 65-year-old driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death. This is the second fatal crash involving an elderly taxi driver in the region within a week.
A man, believed to be between 60 and 70, died after being struck and trapped under a taxi in Tung Chung, Hong Kong. The taxi driver was arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving causing death.
Government inspectors did not foresee engineering firms colluding to deceive authorities over the use of substandard renovation materials at a Hong Kong residential estate devastated in the city’s deadliest fire in decades, a public inquiry has heard. Andy Ku Siu-ping, a senior maintenance surveyor of the Housing Bureau’s Independent Checking Unit, on Wednesday blamed “systemic defects” for the body’s failure to rectify the use of flammable polyfoam boards and scaffolding mesh during a HK$336...
This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. An independent committee investigating the deadly blaze at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court residential estate held its 21st day of evidential hearings on Thursday. Three witnesses from the Urban Renewal Authority gave evidence. URA case manager Matthew Chan Yat-ho, said the authority was aware of the practice of bid-rigging in the building maintenance sector, but...
