Eighteen people have been appointed to sit on the Long Term Housing Strategy Steering Committee, including Urban Renewal Authority chairman and Exco member Barry Cheung Chun-yuen; Michael Choi Ngai-min, a member of the Housing Authority; and Marco Wu Moon-hoi, a former deputy director of housing. It will be chaired by housing minister Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung.
A school bus burst into flames on its way to pick up pupils at Sha Tin College yesterday. The blaze gave off dense smoke as it ripped through the 21-year-old Citybus. The driver pulled over in Fo Tan after seeing flames in the rear-view mirror and firefighters were called in. Citybus said the bus passed a monthly inspection last week.
A mainlander who used a fake Hong Kong firm to launder more than HK$552 million was jailed for five years. Chen Shaofeng, 41, set up Fentai Electronics to transfer funds across the border via the internet. He earned HK$100 for every 1 million yuan (HK$1.22 million) transferred.