Yuen Long District

7 Sep 2012

Tin Shui Wai's name has a serene meaning: "town of sky and water". In reality, the sky is obscured by cookie cutter public housing blocks and water flows only in a drainage nullah.

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New Territories residents rush to declare illegal structures

7 Sep 2012

New Territories residents have submitted about 500 declarations of illegal structures in the past week, as a government deadline of the end of t

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HK developers retain appetite for land banks

6 Sep 2012

Sixteen developers yesterday expressed interest in a residential site on the north side of Yuen Long's Long Ping MTR Station, suggesting that cooling measures were not affecting their appetite for...

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Owners of leisure park in Yuen Long, Hong Kong, ordered to shut down restaurant

16 Aug 2012

Rural strongman Leung Fuk-yuen, his brother and his Tai Tong Lychee Valley park were at the centre of a new land-use row yesterday after a court ordered the closure of a restaurant run by the park...

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Two villagers in Hong Kong face trial over illegally-built fourth floor at their home

16 Aug 2012

Two New Territories' villagers who ignored a government order to remove an illegally built fourth floor at their home will face trial in October, after the court case was delayed for months.

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City Digest

21 Jul 2012

Court cuts activists' jail terms to fines on appeal

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Home ownership plan for Mai Po flats project

A developer has taken the unusual step of suggesting that up to 624 apartments in a residential project it is planning to build in a wildlife-rich wetland be sold as home-ownership scheme flats....

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Police enlist minorities to counter rise in crimes

Police are reaching out to the city's ethnic minority communities to tackle the rising number of arrests of non-Chinese suspects.

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Lam 'asking for fight on small houses'

The development chief's call to end the controversial small-house policy has sparked a public debate in which indigenous villagers accused Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor of stirring up a hornets' nest...

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Yuen Long needs more commercial buildings to house medical facilities

In the past decade, Yuen Long has seen an explosion in population.

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Picking winners amid the economic gloom

DHL and the South China Morning Post launched the 23rd Hong Kong Business Awards yesterday against a stormy global economic outlook, with business leaders calling on the government to cut red tape...

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Villagers' protest crossed the line

There is a clear line between the right to protest and obstruction of the law. Villagers in Yuen Long violated it on Monday while protecting illegal structures in a rural leader's commercial...

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