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Policy address by city leader may have featured some concrete measures to tackle housing and other livelihood issues, but they all rest on her ability to end unrest
- Transport policies stand out among 33 initiatives that did not materialise during Lam’s term
- Lawmakers, expert hope transport gets back on track, call for end to MTR Corp’s rail monopoly
But leader in surveying industry calls on administration to speed up construction process, noting long wait for public housing.
Three Housing Authority factory estates in Kowloon Bay, Fo Tan and Cheung Sha Wan are to be converted into residential areas by 2031.
Villagers who bought homes illegally or rent subdivided units worry they’ll get nothing as only those who registered as squatters in 1982 are assured of compensation package.
Uncertainty over life post-2047 is at the heart of the Hong Kong protests. Lobbying to extend ‘one country, two systems’ and the rule of law beyond 2047 could help Lam safeguard the city’s capital markets and young people’s future.
The chief executive’s policy address had a few good bits, such as welfare initiatives, but was criticised with good reason by lawmakers of all stripes and the media.
Hong Kong has seen a spate of work injuries in recent years with the government pushing ahead with major infrastructure projects.
Endless disruption and heckling is foolish; pro-democracy lawmakers should be listening, criticising and making recommendations for a better Hong Kong.
The key to affordable homes remains in boosting land supply, a goal that the government should not take its eyes off
Office of the Ombudsman said its investigation found a host of problems, including a rising number of complaints about parking spaces designated for electric cars being occupied by other vehicles.
Critics of the latest policy address are indifferent to its contents, choosing rather to highlight the lack of a response to the five demands of protesters. The implicit support of misguided critics is the reason protesters are not retreating.
Residential settlement on land including existing site of River Trade Terminal would be on scale of other new towns in Hong Kong, says minister.
Hong Kong leader says senior official not involved in prior discussions on relaxing mortgage restrictions. Patrick Nip apologises for raising public concern, but insists neither he nor his family gains from the new measures.
Lynton Crosby, the election campaign strategist behind the Conservative Party’s 2015 election win, says the Hong Kong government must deal with the causes of the protest and come up with a plan to address the problem.
Embattled leader also says she will not tolerate any violent or unlawful acts, when asked about alleged police brutality.
Welfare chief Law Chi-kwong says the measures will lower poverty rate by 0.4 per cent.
China’s third-quarter GDP growth, at 6.0 per cent, was the lowest on record and fuelled doubts about the efficiency of stimulus measures
More than 11,600 users reacted to Carrie Lam’s live session – 9,000 posted “angry-face” emojis, 2,000 ‘liked’ what she had to say, and 600 expressed ‘love’.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam wants to give government departments a year to evaluate rent situation and come up with a ‘more reliable scheme’ to help the poor.
