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Housing Authority debates one-month rent waiver
The Housing Authority's subgroup on subsidised housing discusses a one-month rent waiver for public housing tenants, after endorsing a 10 per cent rent rise. Chairman Anthony Cheung Bing-leung has said the authority is considering the waiver to ease the effect of the increase. The maximum allowed by law and the biggest since 1997, the increase has triggered protests by tenants at the authority's headquarters in Ho Man Tin.
SpaceX mission: now for the really tricky part
Tuesday's successful launch into orbit of private company SpaceX's unmanned Dragon capsule may have marked 'a new era in space exploration', according to chief executive Elon Musk, but some of the mission's most difficult challenges lie ahead. The next big step takes place today with testing of the Dragon's sensors and flight systems to determine if it is ready to dock with the International Space Station. The complicated procedures will bring it to within 2.4 kilometres of the ISS. If all goes well, the ISS crew will try to pull the capsule in tomorrow with a robotic arm.
Law Society AGM installs new president
The Law Society holds its annual general meeting, at which its leadership will be reshuffled, with Dieter Yih Lai-tak, a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, expected to take over as president from Junius Ho Kwan-yiu, a senior partner at K.C. Ho & Fong. Under reforms introduced in 2010, solicitors will by the end of the year be allowed to apply to represent their clients in the higher courts, a privilege long the preserve of barristers.