Demolition

21 Apr 2013

With eight centuries of history, Tan is the last urban village left in Guangzhou's Zhujiang New Town, a prime site filled with high-end office buildings. Like the 137 other urban villages in...

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'Monkey King' actor fights to save temple

14 Apr 2013

Mainland television actor Zhang Jinlai said he was speaking in his capacity as a performer when he appealed to state religious authorities to step in and block the destruction of the famed...

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'Monkey King' actor hopes to save historic Buddhist temple in Xian

11 Apr 2013

Zhang Jinlai, who played the Monkey King in Journey to the West, has called on the government to wade in on a proposed project to demolish a part of Xingjiao Temple where a revered Tang Dynasty...

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Fight to save Guangzhou arts hub rumoured to be slated for demolition

30 Mar 2013

Just as the Southern Weekly saga has begun to settle, another fight is brewing in Guangdong cultural circles over the threatened demolition of Redtory, an arts hub in Guangzhou similar to Beijing'...

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Eco-friendly Japanese demolition scheme slashes dust and noise

28 Feb 2013

Passers-by in Tokyo's busy Akasaka district have started to notice something odd about a 40-floor hotel - it has shrunk to about half its original height. Slowly but surely, and with none of the...

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Villagers made homeless after developer demolishes houses

4 Jan 2013

Villagers from Pingdingshan county’s Bailou village, China’s southeastern Henan province, were left homeless as wrecking crews reduced their houses to rubble.

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Opinion

Alex Lo

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

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Tom Holland

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

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Henan city refuses to stop clearance of graves to make farmland

A city in central Henan province says it will push ahead with grave demolitions after the levelling of millions of tombs sparked outrage.

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Illegal structures in To Kwa Wan ordered demolished

The Buildings Department has won a six-month legal battle for a demolition order against a decades-old illegal neighbourhood in a To Kwa Wan alley.

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Inspectors slow to condemn buildings

The burden of relocating residents and co-ordinating with other government agencies may make Buildings Department officials reluctant to declare a block dangerous, according to a construction...

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Tsang agrees to remove structure

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen has agreed to remove a potentially illegal structure from a flat he owns in Mid-Levels after being told to either prove it did not break the law or take it...

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Owner of luxury floating villa sues after officials order demolition

The owner of an extravagant floating villa is suing Shenzhen authorities over demolition of the project after negotiations over legal issues broke down last month.

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Housing estate refuses to come down without a struggle

Lower Ngau Tau Kok Estate may have been built more than 40 years ago, but its designers used what one engineer describes as 'a very modern approach'.

It is this approach that is...

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