Regional Council

A cleaner city requires a sense of community

5 Apr 2003

Hong Kong may have countless gleaming residential and commercial buildings but for too long the community has turned a blind eye to the filth around, and beneath, them. The detritus resulting from...

12:31PM

Monitor misses advisory meetings

19 Nov 2001

The former Urban Council chairman did not attend meetings of an advisory body on food and environmental hygiene for six months.

6:00AM

More than 180 council projects in limbo

4 Dec 1999

More than 180 projects for parks or markets already approved by the two municipal councils may be halted.

It would be up to the new bureau heads taking over municipal services to see...

12:16AM

Tighter admission rules needed

2 Dec 1999

As a frequent user of the Tai Po Public Library, I appreciate the overall efficient services provided by the Regional Council.

However, admittance to the study room must be more...

11:28PM

Desperate last effort on merger amendment

13 Nov 1999

A lawmaker will make a last-ditch effort to have the two councils merged instead of scrapped.

8:39PM

Plant a tree for the millennium

9 Nov 1999

Enrolment for the Millennium Tree Planting project organised by the Provisional Urban Council and the Provisional Regional Council has been extended to November 19.

8:16PM

Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Hygiene rating for eateries

Restaurants are to be graded like hotels under a star system according to their hygiene, it was decided yesterday.

6:35PM

Celebration budget

A $5.5 million budget was endorsed by the Provisional Regional Council for 14 millennium celebration activities.

8:54AM

$15m for millennium celebrations

Nearly $15 million has been earmarked by the provisional urban and regional councils to celebrate the millennium, according to preliminary estimates released yesterday.

3:09AM

Hygiene rules

I refer to the letter headlined, 'Pristine pools' (South China Morning Post, April 10) and would like to respond in respect of public swimming pools managed by the Provisional Regional Council.

2:31AM

Boundary of public morality redrawn

It has been a week of shame for the SAR, as citizens saw their political ecology polluted first by a sex scandal and then violence in rural elections. The reaction of some public figures to the...

10:42PM

In search of action against all-night noise

I would appreciate it if someone from the Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong Police or Regional Council could shed light on the regulations governing noise pollution and assembly of...

6:51PM