Banyan

CITY DIGEST

City Digest, November 17, 2012

17 Nov 2012

Two policemen face misconduct charge

Travellers' checks

11 Nov 2012

First resorts The Laguna Lang Co, on the central Vietnamese coast, is now up and running and consists of two re

City Digest, November 5, 2012

5 Nov 2012

Police probe death of HK couple in Okinawa

Letters to the Editor, October 29, 2012

29 Oct 2012

PLA can give up some sites for housing

More care needs to be taken to monitor old trees likely to fall

20 Oct 2012

Conventional wisdom has it that nothing much can be done when misfortunes befall. But that does not mean there is no lesson to learn.

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

Truck passenger killed by collapsing banyan

Questions have been raised about the effectiveness of the city's tree-risk assessment programme after a 29-year-old man was killed by a falling banyan in Tai Po yesterday.

Heritage tree removed from park amid disease fears

A heritage tree removed by the government yesterday because it posed a danger to the public is suspected to have been infected with the brown root rot disease that has afflicted trees across the...

Nathan Road to lose another banyan

One of the city's oldest thoroughfares, Nathan Road, will lose another of its Chinese banyan trees as early as today, because disease and rot have made it an accident waiting to happen.

Probe to look at sloppy tree planting

The Development Bureau's Tree Management Office is to check whether workers who planted trees at the government headquarters cut corners, as some trees uprooted by the recent typhoon still had...

Lack of care blamed for large number of trees felled

Inadequate space for growth, the wrong species and probably lax monitoring of planting may be to blame for the large number of trees knocked down by Severe Typhoon Vicente, says a tree specialist...

5 injured by falling tree on TST's 'golden mile'

Five pedestrians were injured last night when a 14-metre-tall Chinese banyan tree collapsed on one of Tsim Sha Tsui's busiest shopping areas.