Office of the Ombudsman

11 Jan 2013

Public hospitals and ambulances will send critical patients to the nearest emergency facility instead of driving to a designated hospital as is now required.

4:27AM

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Bicycle parking problem persists

14 May 2010

Government departments pass the buck when it comes to clearing illegally parked bicycles at public transport interchanges, the Ombudsman said yesterday.

8:08AM

HK$146,000 bill for water supplies revised to HK$39

14 Mar 2008

Nearly 33,000 overcharged bills were settled by the Water Supplies Department in the past three years, amounting to a total of HK$38 million, the Office of the Ombudsman has found.

10:14PM

Call for release of MTR suicide data

27 May 2007

A lawmaker is urging transport officials to release information about suicides on MTR tracks to the public, which the government has refused to do and defied a ruling by the Office of the...

8:45AM

Governmental abuses curbed by democracy

13 Oct 1999

The maintenance of democracy guarantees a limit to government powers. Hong Kong's representative democracy, where citizens are able to make political decisions through a majority vote in free...

5:50PM

Trail often goes cold in maze of hotlines

17 Jun 1997

Comforting news for those who get lost in the maze of government hotlines - the Ombudsman shares your frustration.

10:31PM