Issue: August 22, 2012   (Archive)
Tuesday, May 21, 2013   

It's about time as MTR adds peak-hour trips
The MTR Corp will add more than 800 extra trips a week on three major lines before the end of the year as part of efforts to ease crowding and reduce waiting times at stations.



Trawling home
The fishing boat carrying seven Diaoyu Islands activists limped into Hong Kong waters last night under marine police escort.

Laughing gas leakage puzzles hospital probe
Three suppliers for one laughing gas apparatus. That's the riddle facing Prince of Wales Hospital as it scrambles to pin down who is to blame for the leakage of nitrous oxide - or laughing gas - which exposed 42 of its 48 obstetric nurses to up to 12 times the safe limit.

Urine switch 'rule' questioned
A government prosecutor challenged claims by Correctional Services officers that it is an "unwritten rule" to replace urine samples of addicts with their own in order to raise the department's success rate.

Tear them down
The Buildings Department has given the wife of troubled development minister Paul Chan Mo-po 60 days to remove unauthorized alterations found in two subdivided flats she owned.



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