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Posts from ‘October, 2011’
Mainland to invest up to US$300m in biofuels
South China Morning Post – 29 Oct 2011 Airlines are expected to share the costs of building refinery, needed to scale up production, says Boeing The mainland’s aviation industry is expected to inject as much as US$300 million over the next four years to expand its supply of biofuels, says a senior executive at American [...]
Weasel words from Donald Tsang on new air quality objectives for HK
South China Morning Post – 26 Oct 2011 Those concerned with Hong Kong’s awful roadside pollution may have been heartened by the chief executive’s undertaking on RTHK last week to implement the territory’s long delayed new air quality objectives (AQOs). AQOs are supposed to be the benchmark for an acceptable level of air quality. Hong [...]
Political parties in a legal grey area
South China Morning Post – 26 Oct. 2011 Little is known about the way in which political parties are financed in Hong Kong. But some light has now been shed as a result of the leaking of documents said to detail donations made by media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying to the pro-democracy camp. According to [...]
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 [...]
Cathay pins hopes on biofuels
South China Morning Post – 24 Oct. 2011 Airline could save billions of dollars a year while also satisfying requirements to reduce its emissions and offset costs of EU’s carbon tax scheme As airlines mull their options after a European Court upheld the European Union’s carbon tax scheme, Cathay Pacific Airways (SEHK: 0293) says it is [...]
The Earth is getting warmer, study finds
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Judicial reviews worth defending
South China Morning Post – 21 Oct 2011 Concerns have been raised that lawyers are abusing the legal process for personal gain by handling judicial reviews challenging government policies. These are serious allegations. Thankfully, there is no evidence to suggest that this is happening. Applications for legal aid are subject to rigorous scrutiny. The merits [...]
The Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Bill – Donations
The manifesto on which the UK Government was elected in 1997 included three commitments regarding party funding: · to oblige political parties to declare the source of all donations above a minimum figure · to ban foreign funding of political parties · to ask the Committee on Standards in Public Life to consider how the [...]
REGULATING POLITICAL PARTIES IN HONG KONG
Introduction Since they emerged in the 1980s, Hong Kong political parties have struggled to develop and establish themselves. They were discouraged by the British for most of the period when they ran Hong Kong. To this day, political parties confront a range of obstacles to healthy growth, including the denial of any governmental role to [...]