Hong Kong minister vows to give public account on Queen Mary Hospital lifts saga

Hong Kong’s development minister has pledged to give a public account of whether her bureau failed to properly oversee faulty lift installations at Queen Mary Hospital’s new block, but has stopped short of confirming whether a new accountability system for heads of departments will be invoked to probe the saga. Nearly two weeks after Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu tasked the Development Bureau with submitting a report within a month, Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn Hon-ho said she...