Two industrial sites in Tsuen Wan and Ap Lei Chau, covering a total area of 14.6 hectares, are proposed to be rezoned for business use according to the Planning Department’s latest report on Tuesday.
Organisers say just 48,000 people joined today's annual July 1 march, the lowest turnout for the annual pro-democracy rally since 2008. The last of the marchers have now arrived at the rallying point at government headquarters in Admiralty, close to the site of the main Occupy sit-in last year.
Planners have shot down more than 80 per cent of applications from private companies to rezone green belt land for housing over the past 18 years, often for fear of setting an "undesirable precedent", a study shows.
Hong Kong archaeologists are calling for the establishment of an independent expert panel to reassess the value of relics unearthed in To Kwa Wan.
While two prominent archaeologists have raised doubts over the MTR's plan to redesign To Kwa Wan station to preserve unearthed relics, the head of the Antiquities Advisory Board has argued that public display should be an important consideration when deciding how to handle the artefacts.
Occupy Central indirectly contributed to the election victory of independent Dr Ko Wen-je by inspiring Taipei students to support him, the mayor-elect's campaign chief says.
