Basement

17 Mar 2013

A wine expert given a rare glimpse inside former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen's wine cellar is remaining tight-lipped about its location.

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Digging deep for some illegal space

18 Feb 2013

Is the illegal giant basement found under the home of former chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen and his wife in Kowloon Tong an exception, the result of the couple's greed for space...

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Henry Tang's wife charged over illegal basement

17 Feb 2013

A Buildings Department spokesman confirmed yesterday that the probe into the 2,250 sq ft basement at the house at 7 York Road, Kowloon Tong, had been completed and a summons issued on February 9...

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Leung must give straight answers before basement becomes a bunker

3 Dec 2012

The long-awaited reply late last month from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying over the saga of his trellis has led to more questions than answers.

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Leung Chun-ying must settle illegal-structures matter now

25 Nov 2012

Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has finally given an account of the affair of illegal structures at his Peak home - five months after news reports alleged he may have covered up unauthorised...

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Building plan may have hid C.Y. structure from view

27 Jun 2012

An unmarked section on the building plan of Leung Chun-ying's house on The Peak could have made it difficult to spot an illegal basement if it was already there when he bought the property 13...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

1:26AM

Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

4:40AM

No going quietly when the mighty fall

It's a witch-hunt. It's a settling of scores.

3:04PM

Police urged to join in probe of Tang's basement

Police are being urged to join the investigation into an illegal basement at the home of chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen after the Buildings Department said it was having serious...

10:17AM

Witness list compiled as basement probe heats up

More than three dozen witnesses are expected to give evidence in a probe into the illegal basement at the home of chief executive candidate Henry Tang Ying-yen.

9:28AM

A wealth of evidence in Tang's basement

The 'basementgate' scandal involving chief executive hopeful Henry Tang Ying-yen has intrigued many engineers, and readers of this column with such a background have been offering tips for...

8:47AM

Police should help any probe, specialists say

Henry Tang Ying-yen and his wife should be criminally investigated, in the light of evidence suggesting they planned their 'underground palace' at a Kowloon Tong house before it was completed in...

7:42AM

Tang declares basement off limits

Embattled chief executive hopeful Henry Tang Ying-yen has rejected calls to allow the media to inspect his home's illegal basement, saying it would intrude on his privacy.

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