This tower was specifically built to show off the physical power of the excavator.

Whatever the operator of this machine gets paid, it is not enough! And someone should point out to those spectators that they are dangerously close!!

An alliance of 13 NGOs has applied to the Town Planning Board for a 77-metre height restriction on the Central Police Station site. The limit, if adopted, would mean the Jockey Club, which has undertaken to conserve the site, would have to almost halve the height of the controversial 150-metre structure it proposed in 2007.

The government has been warned that its decision to go ahead with a mechanism allowing contract price adjustment during the economic downturn may prove costly, with 10 major infrastructure projects in the pipeline.

The foundations of the city's historic Central School will be rebuilt by experts on the adjoining police married quarters site in Central, after two weeks of public consultations that begin later this month.

The Buildings Department approved 30 building plans in December - 11 on Hong Kong Island, 10 in Kowloon and nine in the New Territories.

Residents and non-profit organizations based in old commercial buildings by April are in line for funding under the urban renewal program.