Lift

Rust found on lift cables that snapped in North Point, injuring seven

4 Mar 2013

The lift that plummeted to the ground on Saturday night had been maintained by Shineford Engineering and government engineers are scrambling to conduct safety checks on 248 other lifts the firm...

Seven injured in lift accident in North Point building

3 Mar 2013

The accident happened at about 8pm in a commercial building at 480 King's Road. The lift dropped suddenly just after it had passed the first floor on the way up.

Hong Kong's lifts fail to make grade in list of world's fastest

17 Feb 2013

Hong Kong is home to the most skyscrapers in the world, more than double the number in New York. But surprisingly, it fails to feature in a list of the globe's top five fastest lifts.

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China Digest, November 29, 2012

29 Nov 2012

The Beijing Institute of Technology has received 1.2 billion yuan (HK$1.48 billion) to build a large centre for the research and development of defence technologies, and construction began on...

Trial therapy: Clarins facial

31 Jul 2009

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The Clarins Beautiful Decollete Treatment and Shaping Lift Facial from the Tianmu Mountains. The products contain ginko bilboa from the mountains of Zhejiang province....

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Call for workers to be registered

A lawmaker and unionists have called for a registration scheme for lift workers in the light of the fact that about 1,000 of the city's 4,000 lift workers are not qualified.

Lift users' lives being put at risk, says union

Safety concerns after elevator plunge at estate

People's lives are being put at risk because of fierce competition within the lift industry and insufficient regulation by the...

Worker gets wrong kind of raise

A delivery worker was left hanging upside down after getting his foot stuck in a cargo lift door which then dragged him upwards in a freak accident in a Kwai Chung industrial building yesterday....

Bullets found in lift lobby

Police searched the 15th-floor of Cherry House in So Uk Estate, Shamshuipo, after a youth found four rounds of ammunition near a lift lobby. They were taken away for analysis.

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Lift crushes worker to death

A worker was crushed to death by a lift he was repairing in a commercial building in Causeway Bay. The 21-year-old man, surnamed Wong, was working at the bottom of the lift shaft in the building...

Lift robber hurts maid

A robber hiding in the roof of a lift switched off the elevator, jumped down and punched a maid before escaping with about $1,000, a mobile phone, a gold necklace and a bracelet in Western...