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Getting Our Priorities Right – Cleaner Air in Hong Kong

http://csr-asia.com/weekly_detail.php?id=12660 18 April 2012 Recently in the South China Morning Post there has been a discussions about the issue of air quality in Hong Kong. It pointed out that the strange thing about Hong Kong’s poor air quality is that a lot of people are relatively unconcerned about it or express a lack of understanding [...]

Chan’s blueprint for Leung

Mary Ma Thursday, April 19, 2012 A political think tank close to chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying convened a seminar this week. As expected, he was showered with praise by the speakers. His supporters – including Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong central committee member Lau Kwok- fan, Executive Council member Anthony [...]

Tsang rejects ‘lame duck’ tag

19 April 2012 Tanna Chong 12:26pm, Apr 19, 2012 Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen denied his government was a “lame duck”, saying it played a role in shaping his successor’s “zero” quota on mainlanders giving birth at private hospitals. His remarks on Thursday morning came after the blunt declaration by chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying that the [...]

Funding call for waste burner

SCMP Edward Yau faces an uphill task in trying to convince lawmakers to approve the HK$15 billion needed to build controversial incinerator off Shek Kwu Chau Cheung Chi-fai, Peter So and Tanna Chong Apr 19, 2012 The environment minister is in last-ditch lobbying to reverse opposition to his bureau’s request for HK$15 billion to build [...]