City Digest, October 24, 2012

A Hong Thai Travel Services tour guide was killed by falling building material at a hotel in the tourist spot of Cappadocia in Turkey yesterday. A spokeswoman said he was hit while organising a bus for his 22-member group outside the Suhan Hotel Cappadocia. Another guide had taken over and the tour would continue.

There was no room to amend details of the old-age allowance to be tabled in Legco, Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said, despite a threat by opposition parties to try to filibuster it. A means test was the most appropriate way to ensure the monthly HK$2,200 went only to elderly in need and did not jeopardise public finances in the long term, she said.