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Posts from ‘June, 2011’
KMB takes route to $108m buys
Hong Kong Standard – 30 June 2011 Kowloon Motor Bus will spend HK$108 million on 60 single-deck vehicles to be used on less popular routes. Kowloon Motor Bus will spend HK$108 million on 60 single-deck vehicles to be used on less popular routes. The company will also replace 36 single-deckers more than 15 years old. [...]
Airport has real growth potential
I refer to Paul Zimmerman’s article (“Airport plan can’t take off without reliable growth forecast and cost-benefit analysis”, June 18). The air traffic forecast made for Hong Kong International Airport’s Master Plan 2030 by Iata Consulting is based on gross domestic product, the most reliable and proven indicator known to the industry. Over the past [...]
HK$4b record profit for Airport Authority
South China Morning Post – 30 June 2011 Bumpy ride ahead for Chek Lap kok operator despite strong rebound in passenger and cargo throughput Hong Kong airport made a record profit of more than HK$4 billion last year following a strong rebound in passenger and cargo throughput, but expansion plans could make for a bumpy [...]
Simple monitoring of ultrafine particles
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Shenzhen Airport to Launch Second Runway tomorrow – Shenzhen Post
http://www.szcpost.com/2011/06/shenzhen-airport-to-launch-second-runway-tomorrow.html Shenzhen Airport to Launch Second Runway tomorrow on June 29, 2011 by jasmineyu Shenzhen Airport opened a new cargo shipping air route for Shenzhen, Wuhan and Zhengzhou yesterday. The air route will be flown by the B737－300 plane, which will undertake five flights per week with payload capacity of 14 tons each. As of [...]
HK chamber urges Tsang to think big on air pollution
South China Morning Post – 28 June 2011 The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen urging him to take action on roadside pollution. “What Hong Kong people have been yearning for … is to see the return of the blue sky, so that we might [...]
Blue skies don’t mean clean air
SCMP letters Chris Stubbs is living in a dream if he believes that seeing blue skies in Hong Kong, albeit very occasionally, means we are breathing clean air (“Blue-sky thinking on pollution”, June 23). Just because he is unable to see the grey-yellow smog hugging our hills due to southerly sea breezes does not prove, [...]
New anti-fraud strategy aims to name and shame
http://www.europolitics.info/institutions/new-anti-fraud-strategy-aims-to-name-and-shame-art307999-36.html EUROPOLITICS / European Commission Commission New anti-fraud strategy aims to name and shame By Gaspard Sebag | Friday 24 June 2011 The European Commission adopted, on 24 June, a new anti-fraud strategy that will enable the naming and shaming of fraudsters of EU funds. The overall aim is to facilitate prevention and detection and [...]
Plan for third runway should include a study of residents’ health impact
South China Morning Post – 24 June 2011 Edwin Lau urges airport officials to ensure that residents’ well-being will not be further damaged The Airport Authority says that preliminary information about the potential environmental and health impact of its proposal for a third runway at Hong Kong International Airport will be made available when the [...]