【明報專訊】環保署昨發表諮詢文件，建議修訂《噪音管制條例》以規管住宅裝修噪音，包括禁止於周六、日及公眾假期使用小型撞擊式破碎機和撞擊式鑽孔機，平日使用小型撞擊式破碎機須預先向環保署呈報，並規定兩個月內只可使用5個或8個工作天，違反規定即屬違法，可處定額罰款1萬元。諮詢文件未提及如何執法，環保署稱，日後可由居民或物管公司職員協助記錄兩款工具發出的噪音，並向環保署舉報，由署方利用人工智能分析，以決定是否有足夠證據提出檢控。
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An employee of the property management firm at Hong Kong’s inferno-ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate has admitted the company failed in its contractual obligations to identify and follow up on fire hazards, while none of its top management testified at an evidential hearing into the disaster. The eighth day of the hearing by the
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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest inferno in decades is expected to conclude its first round of evidential hearings on Thursday, with the role of the property management firm at
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John Hau, a 66-year-old Hongkonger, was frustrated by the government’s decision to revamp the HK$2 (26 US cents) transport subsidy scheme. The discount allowed him to pay just HK$4 to make the round-trip rail commute from his home in Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, where he works as
