Heung Yee Kuk

17 Feb 2013

Lau Wong-fat said he appreciated efforts made by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's administration, but he hoped a "generous approach" would be taken to tackling some of the thorny issues affecting...

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Talking points

16 Feb 2013

Liaison chief meets Heung Yee Kuk

Fortune stick warns of political, economic challenges

11 Feb 2013

Lau Wong-fat, chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, drew a stick of the worst category at Che Kung Temple in Sha Tin.

Small-house moves worthy of Machiavelli

28 Jan 2013

Perhaps town and country just don't get along. This may be why urbanites like yours truly are always picking on the Heung Yee Kuk, the powerful rural body that represents indigenous villagers in...

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CY lacks stomach to fight the kuk

23 Jan 2013

There was tough talk about ending the small-house policy in the New Territories when Leung Chun-ying was running for chief executive. Now, you wonder if the government hasn't given in. Leung still...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

Alice Wu

John Tsang's confused middle-class claim

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

200,000 village houses face warnings on illegal structures

Buildings Department officers will this week begin handing out as many as 200,000 warnings and demolition orders to the owners of village houses with illegal structures.

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Heung Yee Kuk chief Lau Wong-fat softens on 2047 end to housing right

The chief of the powerful rural affairs body has softened his opposition to the idea of scrapping in 2047 a policy that allows male indigenous villagers in the New Territories to build three-...

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Can anyone get through to Carrie Lam?

A public forum on the plan to develop 787 hectares of land descended into chaos on Saturday as 6,000 people turned up, many to protest. But Chief Secretary Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said the...

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LAI SEE

Why the gasp of alarm over dirty pools but not polluted air?

A local newspaper has drawn attention to the level of bacteria in seven public swimming pools because they exceed what are considered as safe limits.

Lau left Exco post 'to handle kuk row'

Heung Yee Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat said yesterday that he had declined an offer to stay as an Executive Council member under Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying so he could focus on handling...

Kuk urged to solve village eviction row

Villagers threatened with eviction from homes that have been in their families for decades have called on the Heung Yee Kuk to step in to solve the dispute.