Firefighters had to force open the locked metal gate to the three-storey village house before they could get inside, said Wu Tze-fung, the Fire Services Department's divisional commander in New...
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8 May 2013
Q: I have just become a permanent resident and am looking to make Hong Kong my first home. My budget is up to HK$12 million. My shortlisted choices are a one-bedroom flat at Sun Hung Kai...
2:33AM
24 Feb 2013
Simon Watkiss, who lost his sons to the October blaze in Yuen Long, was heartened by the support of Pok Fu Lam councillor Paul Zimmerman.
5:02AM
21 Feb 2013
Without a law to protect homosexuals from discrimination, it is believed this minority group will suffer emotionally, especially in the workplace.
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20 Feb 2013
Like most residents of the New Territories, I welcome the government's initiative to set up a new department to investigate what has become known in the media as unauthorised structures. New...
4:12AM
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...
3:04AM
Elliot Watkiss, eight, and his brother Frankie, seven, died in their home in Wing Hing Wai, Yuen Long, in October after a fire broke out while they were asleep. The boys' father Simon Watkiss last...
5:00AM
Ending the small-house policy for indigenous villagers in the New Territories would boost land supply and ease the city's housing shortage, the Civic Party says.
5:44AM
Only half of the New Territories village houses believed to have illegal structures have been reported to the Buildings Department, despite a scheme offering leniency to people who declare less-...
4:37AM
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