Paper Talk: drivers stage protest over Link Reit parking rent rise
Car drivers and motorbike riders, led by Sha Tin district councillors, stage slow-drive protest
Sunday, Apple Daily
Drivers stage protest over Link Reit parking rent rise
Car drivers and motorbike riders, led by Sha Tin district councillors, staged a slow-drive protest on Saturday against an almost 10 per cent rise in the fees from May 1 for parking spaces owned by the Link Reit. About 30 protesters drove or rode slowly from Ma On Shan to the multi-storey car park building in Temple Mall South, where a Link Reit office is located. A petition was handed to Link Reit representatives demanding the decision be withdrawn and rents for spaces frozen for three years.
Monday, Ming Pao
Items on government land removed after news report
Illegal structures on several plots of government land in Wang Chau, a rural area in the northwest of Yuen Long, have been removed after the Lands Department took action last month following earlier media coverage. Items occupying the sites have been taken away, fences erected around the areas, and car park signs removed. The plots had illegally been occupied by Tsang Shu-wo, chairman of the Ping Shan Rural Committee, for more than 20 years for the purpose of operating a car-parking business.