Emergency Services

10 Jan 2013

The Fire Services Department and the Hospital Authority have agreed to amend their ambulance system so that patients in urgent need of treatment are taken to the nearest hospital.

This...

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Letters to the Editor, November 10, 2012

10 Nov 2012

Impartiality must be the legal standard

12:56AM

Emergency services performed heroically during ferry disaster

21 Oct 2012

Whatever the outcome of the inquiry into the horrible Lamma ferry disaster, one thing is already clear, Hong Kong's emergency services responded outstandingly to that dire and completely...

1:39AM

Obama honours emergency services and armed forces on 9/11 anniversary

10 Sep 2012

US President Barack Obama urged Americans to honour emergency service workers and men and women in uniform who keep the country safe as he marked the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001...

3:06AM

Red flag

4 Aug 2012

In 2003, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department made a move to outsource the life-saving service in two of its public swimming pools, but it was scuttled by a strike by the lifeguards.

10:58PM

Lifeguards to strike on Sunday's sports day

1 Aug 2012

Lifeguards at Hong Kong's pools and beaches will go on strike on Sunday, to back their calls that a further 400 lifeguards be hired, their union announced yesterday.

10:42PM

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

EU fails to adapt to borderless world

4:35AM

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Man feared drowned

A 59-year-old former University of Hong Kong lecturer is missing, feared drowned, after he ignored the red flags and big waves at Shek O Beach yesterday and went swimming. Rescuers were still...

6:22AM

Elderly swimmer dies at Deep Water Bay

A 73-year-old man drowned while swimming at Deep Water Bay yesterday. Friends of the man, surnamed Leung, realised he was missing at 8.40am, an hour after he entered the water. Firemen found the...

4:58AM

Lifeguards save boy, 5, from drowning

A five-year-old boy was saved from drowning by lifeguards at Shek O Beach yesterday. The boy had run away from his mother, 30, and went into the water to play at about 2.50pm just as the red...

8:18AM

Swimmers ignore safety net a day after fatality

Swimmers still hit Clear Water Bay Second Beach yesterday and swam outside the shark protection net, despite a 66-year-old man being killed by a speedboat there the day before.

2:27AM

Lifeguards' sick calls close Sha Tin swimming centre

Six lifeguards at a public swimming pool centre in Sha Tin may face disciplinary action after failing to report for duty on Tuesday.

The three pools at the Sha Tin Jockey Club...

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Kevin sinclair's hong kong

Magically, it happens every summer. The temperature soars, the sun shines, the seas sparkle and people are eager to plunge into a pool. Then the lifeguards threaten to strike.

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