• The Audit Commission’s review of the government water bottle contract snafu, which cost the Government Logistics Department director his job, is scathing to say the least, with pages of recommendations for the procurement office to address.
Treasury Secretary Christopher Hui said all those officials involved will come under a disciplinary probe, including the former GLD Director Carlson Chan.
Read more from HKFP below.
If you’d like to peruse the Audit Commission’s findings, you can read below.
• If posts about retiring septuagenarian LegCo members are starting to bore you, good news; there’s only two left yet to retire.
Tony Tse is the latest to throw in the towel. Queen Reggie holding on until the bitter end.
• ATC communications between the tower and the ill-fated Cargo Air ACT which crash Monday morning was pretty mundane, with no communication recorded after the crash.
They certainly weren’t recorded saying “WE JUST HAD AN ACCIDENT!” as is suggested in this YouTube thumbnail.
• The first post-summer chill is upon us, with temperatures in the very north of the SAR set to drop to 16°C.
First time in a while weather nerds like myself get to sit around all night just to see if Tai Mo Shan drops to single digits. What a glamorous life I lead…
