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Posts on ‘October 11th, 2008’

Beijing To Reinstate Car Ban

Associated Press | 11 October 2008 Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, state media reported yesterday. The city would temporarily reinstate measures introduced during the Olympic Games and ban cars on alternate days – depending on whether their number plates were odd or [...]

Mixed Success

Daniel Sin – SCMP – Updated on Oct 11, 2008 The chief executive set a hefty agenda in 2007 and achieved much of it, but many targets were modest and major challenges remain, writes Daniel Sin in his final article ahead of Wednesday’s policy address Twelve months ago, the chief executive made more than 60 [...]