The Hong Kong Observatory won the Yahoo! BUZZ Award 2007 in the category of "government department". This award was presented to the highest searched websites by Internet users using Yahoo! Hong Kong's Search engine. There are winners for other categories.

The prize presentation ceremony was held on 19 December 2007 and was officiated by Mr Alfred Tsoi, Managing Director of Yahoo! Hong Kong Limited. Apart from the Hong Kong Observatory, other winners included Ocean Park, Football Team of South China Athletic Association and March Tian Boedihardjo (the 9-year-old boy enrolled into Baptist University).

Weather affects all of us and now the public can gain access to the latest weather information at anytime and from anywhere. The Yahoo! BUZZ Award is a recognition of our work and encourages us further to making our website even better.

Mr H.G. Wai, Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Observatory (left)
receiving the Yahoo! BUZZ Award 2007 from Mr Alfred Tsoi,
Managing Director of Yahoo! Hong Kong Limited