One brought havoc, the other was a godsend.
In an unusual twist, Typhoon Kai-Tak dumped a second wave of plastic pellets onto Hong Kong beaches, giving the army of volunteers who have...
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13 Aug 2012
More than 150 volunteers from the Hong Kong-based NGO Ecovision Asia removed 217 bags of plastic pellets and assorted rubbish from Big Wave Bay beach yesteday.
8 Aug 2012
There is no greater worry than fear of the unknown. Snow-like piles of plastic pellets washing up on beaches may not seem something to be feared, but the uncertainty of their impact on the...
7 Aug 2012
Government pledges on the spill of 150 tonnes of plastic pellets during Typhoon Vicente did little to ease the fears of Hongkongers yesterday.
It said it would keep the public up to...
5 Aug 2012
Hundreds of volunteers yesterday helped clear up the mass of plastic pellets washed ashore on Discovery Bay's beaches in the wake of Typhoon Vicente two weeks ago.
For their part,...
Discovery Bay has been left with an unwanted reminder of Typhoon Vicente in the form of millions of raw plastic pellets blown off a ship.
Little did Jim Spear realise that when he bought a postcard from a Great Wall hawker in the mid-1990s, it would set off a chain of events that, ultimately, would lead to him becoming a property...
We refer to the letter headlined, 'Gas mystery' (South China Morning Post, January 24).
Happy Valley-loving Full Metal Jacket looks the one to beat in the featured Po Leung Kuk Centenary Cup.
It is one of the season's rare day meetings at the city track and punters face...
A jobless man, 54, was arrested after the seizure of a home-made pistol, metal pellets and explosives in a hut in Tan Kwai Tsuen, Yuen Long.
The pistol was made of two water pipes...
Police will today resume the search along Wan Chai's waterfront where 416 bullets were found on Thursday.
Divers were forced to halt a search off Fenwick Pier after two hours...
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