CE Orders Review Of Building Monitoring Methods

Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday said that she has asked the Secretary for Transport and the Director of Highways to "thoroughly review" how they monitor infrastructure projects.

"Once they have some findings, I have asked them to explain in public," she said.

The Chief Executive was commenting on the scandal for the first time after it emerged that 10,000 key documents relating to the construction of a section of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge were submitted months late.

Speaking ahead of the weekly Executive Council meeting, Lam noted that the Highways Department had already asked an independent consultant to look into the issue and was assured that there was no problems with the safety of the structure.

China State Construction Engineering, which carried out the project involving a section of road between Scenic Hill and the Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities, has not yet commented on the scandal.