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Airport Authority delivers its 2011-12 results
The Airport Authority holds a briefing on its annual results for the year to the end of March. Last year it reported a record profit of HK$4 billion, thanks to a strong rebound in passenger and cargo throughput. However, chief executive Stanley Hui Hon-chung (left) warned that its expansion plans, particularly the yet-to-be-approved construction of a third runway, could make for a bumpy ride in the years ahead.
Legco reports on C.Y.'s role in West Kowloon tender
The Legco select subcommittee investigating chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying's involvement in the West Kowloon Reclamation Concept Plan tables its report. In March 2001 Leung was a member of a jury that considered a tender from a company with which he had a business connection. The alleged offence was made public in February, in an official statement issued at a critical moment in Leung's campaign to be the next chief executive, raising suspicions that the administration was trying help his main rival, former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen.
Update on HK aid project after Sichuan quake
The retired engineer appointed to head the Development Bureau's Sichuan reconstruction programme, Mak Chai-kwong (left), gives a lecture at the University of Hong Kong on progress of the project the government set up in the aftermath of the May 12, 2008, disaster, in which 87,000 people died. In 2009, the government donated HK$9 billion for reconstruction, but concerns were raised last month by reports that a secondary school rebuilt using HK$4 million in Hong Kong donations would be demolished to make way for a luxury residential complex.