Environmental Protection Department

Letters to the Editor, February 24, 2013

24 Feb 2013

During my tenure as museum director, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum averaged 35,000 paying visitors a year. This compares favourably with the paid visits to government museums and, indeed, with...

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Green is good, as long as taxes are not in the red

9 Jan 2013

It's always interesting and sometimes surprising to see what drives policy in Hong Kong. Take the story in yesterdays' SCMP about car dealers asking the government for more time to clear their...

Hong Kong's waste-charges plan get broad support, poll shows

7 Dec 2012

People will have to pay to have their rubbish dumped after the Hong Kong government finally took the next step in dealing with its mounting waste problem after years of delays.

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Disappearing paper trail more evidence of need for archive law

5 Dec 2012

How interesting to read in yesterday's South China Morning Post the reason why the Health Department was unable to monitor and enforce the land-grant conditions of some non-profit making hospitals...

Something is 'rotten' in the Prosecutions Department

4 Dec 2012

We gather there has been some amusement in prosecution circles over the claim by outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Kevin Zervos, in his recent annual review, that the prosecutors who have...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Government looks for a new director of public prosecutions

We have been talking for some months now about the interest on the part of Director of Public Prosecutions Kevin Zervos in becoming a judge. We see that the first shoe in that scenario dropped...

Letters to the Editor, November 24, 2012

Environment officials can do better job

The Environmental Protection Department's dogged intention to locate a massive off-shore waste incinerator on Shek Kwu Chau marked a low point in...

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The sheer wilful stupidity of official inaction on pollution

This week's Audit Commission report on the effectiveness of the Hong Kong government's pollution policy makes depressing reading.

That is not so much because of the government's repeated...

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ENVIRONMENT

Lawyer slams government impact report on offshore incinerator

It was unreasonable for the Environmental Protection Department director to approve an impact-assessment report made by his own department on the proposed building of a massive offshore waste...

Government must do more to improve air quality

Just how bad is our air quality? The answer can be found when you sniff it or take a look at the skyline. Those who need more evidence can turn to the damning report by the Audit Commission on the...

LAI SEE

Who will be Hong Kong's next Director of Public Prosecutions?

Readers may be aware that we have been reflecting recently on who might be Hong Kong's next Director of Public Prosecutions. This is of interest because we gather that the present incumbent Kevin...