Land Warfare

19 Sep 2008

Four wartime cannons were unearthed from the former site of Victoria Barracks in Admiralty, driving scores of people from the British consulate and the British Council onto the street while bomb...

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Wired device found buried at racetrack

22 Mar 2007

Police say it was not a bomb but the object sparks a security alert hours before a Happy Valley meeting

10:52PM

Heavy burden for women in explosives team

26 Jan 2007

The Hong Kong bomb squad's first woman operator says there are no special physical requirements for women on the team because being able to think quickly under pressure is the most important...

3:51PM

Risky business

26 Jan 2007

'He didn't make a professional error, he just ran out of luck,' said the Hong Kong bomb squad's chief, Dominic Brittain, of former stalwart Norman 'Bomber' Hill.

3:51PM

kevin sinclair's hong kong

20 Dec 2006

Better than new, Norman Hill once chuckled, pulling up his sleeve and proudly displaying his artificial arm. Won't fall off like the last one.

11:44AM

Explosive legacy under our feet

25 Apr 2006

When Penny's Bay was being reclaimed in 2002, a routine part of the engineering works was to remove unexploded bombs from the future Disneyland site. The ordnance was dredged up along with sand...

3:36PM

Opinion

Alex Lo

A dangerous demagogue in our midst

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4:18AM

Jake Van Der Kamp

Ferry subsidies to push rents up further

4:27AM

Bomb expert treated after collapsing

A veteran bomb disposal expert was taken to hospital yesterday after he collapsed in his office at the Wan Chai police headquarters.

10:23AM

Suspect object at consulate

Bomb disposal officers examined a suspicious parcel found in the car park of the office of the US Consulate in Garden Road, Central. They found a computer circuit board.

3:46AM

Wartime bombs found

Two wartime bombs were found by a dredger off Lamma Island. Experts from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau stabilised the bombs and shipped them out of the area for disposal.

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3:00PM

Shopping mall cleared as crude bombs defused

Hundreds of people were evacuated from a Kowloon Tong shopping mall last night after two home-made bombs were found outside a fashion shop.

Police bomb-disposal officers used a robot...

7:11AM

Bomb disposal process could be formalised

As a director of a British explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) company with a registered agent in Hong Kong, I was interested to read the letter from Ian Quinn ('Unexploded bombs should be searched...

11:15AM

Peak homes evacuated after 163kg bomb found

A NUMBER of Peak residents were evacuated last night after a 163kg World War II artillery shell was unearthed from a construction site on Pollock's Path.

A worker at the construction...

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