Public Services

Street cleaners send waste for recycling to landfills

17 Mar 2013

Government-paid street sweepers have been caught emptying recycling bins and dumping their contents with general waste destined for landfills.

5:39AM

Crazy thinking will damage MTR further down the line

17 Mar 2013

The idea that fare increases should be denied if services are not up to a standard deemed satisfactory by some nebulous panel is alien to any rational concept of how a public service corporation...

2:21AM

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New Shanghai mayor vows to treat city's problems as 'a citizen'

3 Feb 2013

Shanghai's new mayor, Yang Xiong, said yesterday he understood the "inadequacies" of public services as "a citizen" of the mainland's commercial hub.

5:48AM

Government should investigate DBC Radio saga

19 Oct 2012

DBC Radio's special week-long broadcast, initiated by its former hosts and staff after its official closure last week, might come to an end sooner than expected following an application to the...

1:05PM

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China's health spending reform an encouraging sign

10 Sep 2012

Important policy announcements tend to dry up as the mainland prepares for a once-in-a-decade leadership change. It is good to see that health care for the nation's 1.3 billion people is an...

2:04AM

Competition bill in danger of losing

20 Feb 2012

If evidence is needed to demonstrate the government's lack of political will to act for the benefit of the wider community, the fair competition bill now languishing in the Legislative Council is...

7:53AM

Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

2:53AM

Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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3:37AM

Ombudsman to probe water metering, billing

The Ombudsman received more than 100 complaints a year against the Water Supplies Department for the past three years over its management of water meters.

The good-governance...

4:22PM

No excuse for letting the city's historic postboxes dwindle away

I refer to the letter from Mary Chung, for the postmaster general ('Postbox too badly damaged', February 18), in which she responded to my letter ('Historic mailbox's last post', February 11...

8:49AM

Talkback

Should firemen get a pay rise?

Why are we deliberating on whether or not to give Hong Kong firemen a raise?

7:52AM

Contracts rule over people's pockets

'Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, saying rising inflation had made these 'difficult times', told lawmakers the financial needs of people would outweigh the interests of shareholders when...

12:20PM

HK African stowaways' grim fight for life laid bare

Harrowing details have emerged of the desperate struggle of three African stowaways to escape a locked container in the hold of a ship moored off Hong Kong which ended in their deaths.

11:30PM

Shenzhen leads way with public service

Shake-up seen as possible model for rest of nation

A public service unit shake-up under way in Shenzhen will affect thousands of civil servants and could be a model for municipal...

11:01PM