Hong Kong Housing

Letters to the Editor, March 4, 2013

4 Mar 2013

Michael Chugani in his column has painted a gloomy economic outlook for Hong Kong and his vivid description reminded me of the film Les Miserables and Mencius. When greed reigns, it suffocates...

Sites behind flats boost smaller than tennis court

4 Mar 2013

At least two of the building sites touted by the government as the answer to easing the city's housing problems are smaller than a tennis court, a conservation group has discovered.

Letters to the Editor, March 3, 2013

3 Mar 2013

I was interested to read Dr Robert Hanson's letter ("'Green' light bulbs really a health hazard", February 22), replying to my letter ("Offer rewards for light-bulb recycling", February 17)....

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Talking points

27 Feb 2013

Hongkongers will be keeping one eye on their wallets and another on the television as Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah delivers his budget plan. Tsang is expected to take advantage of the...

Letters to the Editor, February 27, 2013

27 Feb 2013

I refer to the report concerning the groundbreaking research into "brittle tail syndrome" in racehorses. The article, while correctly hailing the efforts of Professor Yuen Kwong-yung and his team...

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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

New World Development's Henry Cheng willing to donate land for flats

A day after Henderson Land Development chairman Lee Shau-kee confirmed he was in talks with the government about donating land for cheap homes, New World Development chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun...

Sale of hotel units another housing headache for Leung Chun-ying

Property giant Cheung Kong's selling of 360 units in the Apex Horizon hotel in Kwai Chung has stirred up public anger and political and legal interest. The issue is the unfairness of the exemption...

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Letters to the Editor, February 20, 2013

Mr Lo criticised me and the Civic Party for "jumping on the bandwagon" in uploading Lian's article on Facebook and inviting the chief executive to sue me for libel if indeed he had a case for...

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Budget must watch out for Hong Kong's middle class

We have become a pear-shaped society, with a swollen lower class and a shrinking middle class, the former trapped by impotent rage and the latter resigned to their fate in which the Hong Kong...

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HOUSING

Housing Society seeks help to rehouse tenants while it rebuilds estates

The Housing Society says the lack of vacant flats for temporary relocations is the main obstacle to redevelopment of public housing - despite this approach being highlighted as a way to increase...

HOUSING

Doubt cast over singles' bid for cheap homes

The society has found that 30,400 applicants - or more than half of the 58,330 applications it received for its new Greenview Villa project in Tsing Yi - are unmarried people aged under 35.

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