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Dockers offer a different viewpoint

By , on April 22nd, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Three non-striking dockers from two contractors broke their silence yesterday in an interview arranged by strike-hit port operator Hongkong International Terminals, saying their working conditions are not as bad as the strikers say they are. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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No sign of concrete action since To Kwa Wan tragedy

By , on March 6th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The Buildings Department appears to have done little to improve its inspection system three years after the collapse of a To Kwa Wan tenement that killed four people, critics say. And the department isn’t saying what recommendations from the Coroner’s Court and its own working group, established after the tragedy, have been executed. This emerged after a 77-year-old building worker, the only person criminally prosecuted after the collapse, was fined yesterday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Builder fined HK$10,000 for part in To Kwa Wan building collapse

By , on March 6th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A 77-year-old former repairman who was deemed partly responsible for a building collapse that killed four people in To Kwa Wan three years ago was fined HK$10,000 in Kowloon City Court on Wednesday. Chu Wai-wing, owner of Wai Wing Construction Decoration Company, had earlier been found guilty of breaching building regulations by carrying out work likely to cause injury to people and damage to property. The maximum penalty for the offence is three years in jail and a HK$1 million fine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Relatives file claims in To Kwa Wan tenement collapse case

By , on January 29th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Estate administrators of the four people killed in the collapse of a To Kwa Wan tenement in 2010 have filed claims for compensation. In a High Court writ, the estates of Lo Kin-wa, 46; Li Qunzhen, 37; student Tong Qingtao, 20, and optician Choy Tao-keung, 40, are asking for unspecified damages. They claim the fatal accident on January 29, 2010, was caused by the negligence and breach of duties by Halesweet, owner of the 55-year-old building at 45J, Ma Tau Wai Road; principal tenant Cha Nam-yam, who sublet the flats; repairman Chu Wai-wing, and the Building Authority. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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