Submitted by admin on Feb 28th 2013, 12:00am Comment›Letters Air pollution in delta region not worse We would like to point out that the article “Smog in Pearl Delta ‘worse than Beijing’” (February 21) misrepresented how air pollution in the Pearl River Delta should be understood. For those of us who study air quality in [...]
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Wage increase to push Hong Kong factories out of Pearl delta
Submitted by admin on Feb 6th 2013, 12:00am Business›China Business MANUFACTURING Anita Lam anita.lam@scmp.com Minimum salary in Guangdong is expected to rise 15pc, double the province’s GDP growth Hong Kong manufacturers operating in the Pearl River Delta may speed up relocating their factories elsewhere as the minimum wage in Guangdong is expected to nearly double [...]
Delta leads nation on dirty-air data
Regional partners, including Hong Kong, team up to unveil real-time readings on toxic fine particles Shi Jiangtao in Beijing and Cheung Chi-fai Mar 09, 2012 The Pearl River Delta is a step ahead in releasing up-to-the-hour information on microscopic pollutants across the region, including Hong Kong, as it seeks to clear the air on a [...]
Pearl River Delta TO release PM 2.5 in March – People’s Daily Online
Clear the Air says: We welcome the actions and decision by the Government of China in listening to the discontent of its Beijing citizens and taking appropriate and rapid action to release this data on killer PM2.5 particulates in real time. Hong Kong has followed suit today although it has been monitoring PM2.5 data for [...]
Air Pollution in Hong Kong and PRD-the state of science
Chak K. Chan Division of Environment, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Institute for the Environment Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, HONG KONG1 Chak K. ChanDivision of Environment,Department of Chemical Engineering, andInstitute for the EnvironmentHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyClear Water Bay, HONG KONG Download PDF : presentation_S7_Prof_Chak_K_Chan
but, we still need a third runway By the time it would be built the PRD will be an overpriced ghost town
20,000 factories on the brink of crisis Bonnie Chen Wednesday, November 09, 2011 More than 20,000 Hong Kong-owned factories in the Pearl River Delta may close or downsize because the Guangdong government is ready to raise the minimum wage once again in January, the Federation of Hong Kong industries warns. Federation vice chairman Stanley Lau [...]
Delta bridge can go ahead as legal challenge ends
South China Morning Post – 26 Oct 2011 Deadline passes for final appeal challenge with no fresh instructions for plaintiff’s lawyer The legal challenge to construction of a bridge across the Pearl River estuary to Macau and Zhuhai is over. Yesterday’s deadline for the plaintiff, 66-year-old Tung Chung resident Chu Yee-wah, to take the case [...]
The importance of environmental impact assessment reports: the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macau Bridge judicial review
http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=16334bb9-a9d4-4be5-945f-4d0c5b3177d9 In April this year, the Court of First Instance (“CFI”) handed down its decision in a judicial review case against the Director of Environmental Protection (the “Director”), quashing her decision to approve the Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (“EIA Reports”) and issue the environmental permits for the Hong Kong Zhuhai Macau Bridge (“HKZMB”) projects. The Court [...]
Wikileaks Cable Shows Grim Truth of Air Pollution in China’s South
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60838&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=1 26 August 2011 Rubbish floating on the Pearl River is seen in the mangrove woods at the Lianhuashan Mountain in Guangzhou of Guangdong Province, China. The Pearl River Delta is one of the most developed regions in China, which also led to heavy pollution of the environment (China Photos/Getty Images) Southern Chinese know the [...]
Firms will veto curbs on pollution
South China Morning Post – 19 June 2011 On the matter of “filthy funnels” (“Laws needed on ship pollution”, June 19), I absolutely agree that Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta should enforce a no-emissions area and switch to low-sulphur fuels. I assume you also mean to include factories in the delta region that [...]