Eviction

Family avoids eviction as cookie jar luck wins US$4.85m

18 May 2013

Maybe you've heard this story before. Or dreamt it. Man cleans out old lottery tickets from cookie jar and, instead of throwing them away, takes them to the 7-Eleven to check them out. And finds...

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Number of evictions in Spain a record high in 2012

27 Mar 2013

Eviction procedures in Spanish courts for unpaid mortgages and rent hit a fresh high last year, an oversight body said, as a sharp economic downturn and record unemployment continued to take a...

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Vietnam spares Hong Kong-funded bear rescue centre from eviction

17 Jan 2013

A sanctuary for bears rescued from the Asian bile trade, which has been at the centre of a high-profile land dispute, has been spared eviction by Vietnam's government.

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Eviction threat to cigarette smugglers on public housing estates

3 Nov 2012

Public housing estate tenants who place phone orders for contraband cigarettes to be delivered to their homes may face eviction if arrested and convicted, a senior customs officer said.

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It was time for Occupy Central protesters to be forcibly moved

12 Sep 2012

Finally, the authorities have taken action to evict members of Occupy Central, who have been camping on the ground floor of HSBC headquarters for almost a year. Bailiffs were sent to the scene...

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Poor thrown aside in flats crackdown

16 Jul 2012

Hongkongers were relieved when the government cracked down on old buildings jammed with illegally partitioned flats early this year.

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Beijing touts crackdown amid land-grab protests

Beijing has stepped up its crackdown on brazen land grabs and forced demolitions after a nine-month-old regulation intended to curb unlawful evictions has proved to be largely toothless.

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Licensed vendors in Mong Kok seek legal aid to resist eviction

Two government-licensed Mong Kok hawkers applied for legal aid yesterday to challenge eviction notices filed by Law Kar-po, son of late Bossini chain founder Law Ting-pong.

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Villagers concede defeat and reluctantly walk away from their Tuen Mun homes

After a six-month battle, a Tuen Mun village has finally been vacated by residents to make way for a public housing estate.

About 80 villagers had vowed to 'defend our homes to the...

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Six arrested for defying eviction over dam work

A long-running eviction dispute at one of the biggest dam projects in Sichuan province has taken another turn, with six villagers detained because of their persistent protest against what locals...

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Inquiry into wedding banquet complaints

The Consumer Council has received more than 60 complaints from couples who had planned their wedding banquets at Club Regency, a Kowloon Bay banquet hall.

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