A mainland tourist is injured when a six-metre branch of a tree near Wong Tai Sin Temple falls

August

A coral tree listed on the registry of old and valuable trees falls and kills 19-year-old university student Kitty Chong Chung-yin in Stanley

March 2009

Chief Secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen is appointed after the Chong inquest to chair a review on tree management

May

A 15-metre tree falls, smashing the windscreen of a car in Kadoorie Road, Mong Kok. It had been inspected and pronounced healthy a month before its collapse

A taxi driver narrowly escapes when a 14-metre tree falls on his vehicle in Perth Street, Kowloon City

June

Government review recommends the setting up of a dedicated tree office to oversee greening, landscaping and tree management. The report rules out a tree protection law

March 2010

A tree office is set up under the Development Bureau to co-ordinate tree-related work of all government departments

June

The tree office says it has completed initial checks on more than 98 per cent of trees in hotspots of heavy human or vehicular traffic