Noise Pollution

3 May 2013

Cities, workplaces, stores and homes are meticulously planned in terms of their construction, efficiency and cost, but little thought goes into how they sound.

5:17AM

Letters to the Editor, February 26, 2013

26 Feb 2013

I do not agree that one way to help young people who are desperately hunting for affordable housing is to accommodate them in shipping containers stacked beneath flyovers.

3:56AM

Marathon official Kwan Kee wants public to be more tolerant

17 Feb 2013

Kwan Kee, chairman of the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association, said yesterday that the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon would once again implement stringent rules to reduce noise pollution...

4:41AM

Letters to the Editor, January 26, 2013

26 Jan 2013

We Chinese know English gives us edge

I refer to the letter by Vaughan Rapatahana ("Why this fixation with English?" January 21).

5:18AM

3 comments

China Digest, November 22, 2012

22 Nov 2012

A man from Gansu province, studying at the Beijing Institute of Technology, complained to authorities in the capital on Tuesday after his 54-year-old mother was taken away by officers at the...

4:26AM

The surround-sound approach to planning

27 May 2012

New technologies have helped engineers visualise noise in 3-D in Hong Kong, where some main roads are just outside bedrooms and more than a million people are exposed to excessive traffic noise....

3:57PM

Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

2:53PM

Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

3 comments

4:10AM

Club vows to put lid on noise pollution

Hong Kong Jockey Club officials yesterday sympathised with noise-affected trainers Sean Woods and David Ferraris, but said the club was powerless over a neighbouring construction site and allayed...

12:21PM

Never a dull moment

To the residents of certain neighbourhoods in Hong Kong, it may seem as if the nights are just getting brighter and brighter, with eye-popping LED advertising panels, colour-saturated neon signs...

11:19AM

Get tough on illegal urn niches, greens say

The government must not let private columbarium operators get away with breaking zoning or land lease rules under its new licensing scheme, green groups and residents say.

10:22AM

Listen up, noise pollution means trouble

Mainland health authorities hope to raise people's awareness of noise pollution, one of the top three causes of hearing disability in the past few years.

The theme for today's...

8:59AM

Playtime cut for pupils in noise dispute

Children at a Lantau school hit with a noise-abatement order that has just been upheld by the High Court will have their playtime shortened by 15 minutes.

11:42PM

New blow for Lantau school in noise row

Lantau International School has been told again to quieten down.

Its supervisor lost a legal challenge yesterday against a noise abatement notice issued after a neighbour complained...

11:37PM