Cage Homes : an art exhibit on Hong Kong's most expensive streets

17 Oct 2012

An island-dwelling cockroach and a tiny snail were declared extinct on Wednesday while 400 plants and animals were added to a threatened “Red List” as global environment ministers met in India.

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Environmental assessment for third runway inadequate

13 Aug 2012

Without assessing the social costs of the [proposed] third runway project, Hong Kong Airport Authority swiftly submitted a project profile to the Environmental Protection Department in late June...

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Peak oil nuts may be right, but for all the wrong reasons

27 Jun 2012

I've never had much time for the peak oil prophets of doom. To me they always seemed first cousins to the kind of people who hide out in log cabins in the back hills of Montana surrounded by...

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Plugged into future of power

29 Oct 2011

Amid calls from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other groups for 2050 greenhouse gas emissions to be 80 per cent below 2005 levels, it is little wonder that clean technology...

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Environmentalist warns of oil-crunch crisis

1 Oct 2011

Companies and governments are hoarding oil and coal and risking creating a 'carbon-asset bubble' - which when it bursts will destabilise economies worldwide on the same scale as the global...

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Plan for third runway won't fly without fuel

9 Aug 2011

If a third runway is added to Hong Kong International Airport, it would not be fully operational until the 2020s. The Airport Authority argues that it is necessary, based on projections of rising...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

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Howard Winn

Way to go

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Impact assessment in need of review

Striking a balance between the needs for development and environmental protection is not easy.

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Green power

While we must wait to see if the government will challenge the High Court decision on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, there are other issues worthy of reflection. The Environmental Impact...

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Little impact seen from Japan, Mideast crises

Japan's earthquake and instability in the Middle East should not cost Hong Kong more than HK$48.5 billion in lost exports this year - or the equivalent of about 1.6 per cent of total exports last...

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Plan to use more nuclear power will meet practical obstacles

I agree with William Yu Yuen-ping of WWF-Hong Kong ('Reduce consumption before buying more nuclear power', September 25). He advocated stronger polices to reduce consumption of energy as an...

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Resources firms advised to tread softly when buying abroad

Chinese mining and resources companies should adopt a low-key approach when looking to acquire overseas assets if they want to avoid inflaming nationalist sentiment, according to industry veteran...

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Asia faces natural barriers as West's fortunes dim

Decades don't usually have the courtesy to begin and end on the right year. The social and cultural revolution that Western countries think of when they talk of the 'Sixties' only got underway in...

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