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 [...]
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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 [...]