A taxi driver is dead on Hiram's Highway in Sai Kung, and the dashcam footage everyone in Hong Kong is now watching shows exactly how it happened. Saturday, 6.47pm, near Pak Sha Tsuen. The taxi crossed the double white line and met a KMB bus coming the other way, head on. The driver was killed and two passengers were hurt. Hiram's Highway is a road every Sai Kung local knows: narrow, winding, a favourite for cutting corners you should not cut. The dashcam clip is not going to make the road safer. What might is the "rushing culture" complaint that RTHK reported the same week, aimed at construction sites, but it is the same disease everywhere in this city. Everyone is in a hurry to save four minutes.

Meanwhile the government wants to talk about matchmaking. Not the romantic kind, the Northern Metropolis kind: officials hoping developers and mainland partners pair up to actually build the thing, while analysts on the same day are telling Reuters-adjacent wires to go "measured" on land tenders so the property recovery, up 10.5 percent in sales, does not get spooked. Hong Kong in one weekend: a city in a hurry on the road, and told to slow down on the land.