SKYLINE News Briefing -16 March 2007

Some very quotable quotes....

"I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
-- Stephen Bishop

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
-- Winston Churchill (about Clement Atlee)

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
--- Irvin S. Cobb

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
--- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
--- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"He had delusions of adequacy."
--- Walter Kerr

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
--- Groucho Marx

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
--- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
--- Forrest Tucker

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
--- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
--- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
--- Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
--- Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
--- Billy Wilder

News Headlines

Developers join forces in bidding at land auction
YVONNE LIU, SANDY LI and PEGGY SITO , SCMP 14 March 2007
Developers set aside their rivalries and joined forces at a land auction yesterday to snap up two residential sites in Tai Po for HK$5.61 billion. Analysts said the government could have obtained a higher price for the sites.

Record bid for Tai Po sites
Raymond WangandDanny Chung, The Standard 14 March 2007
Demonstrating its power to forge alliances with developers, Sino Land (0083) teamed with another property player at the government land auction Tuesday to fork out a record HK$5.61 billion for two Tai Po residential sites.

Three lots sold for $6.18 billion at land auction
Hong Kong Government, 13 March 2007
The Lands Department this afternoon (March 13) held the fifth public land auction of the financial year. Three Government lots were sold for a total of $6.18 billion.

Construction industry can apply for natural sand supply from Mainland
Hong Kong Government, 13 March 2007
The Environment, Transport and Works Bureau (ETWB) today (March 13) invited the construction sectors who require import of natural sand, including silica sand and quartz sand from the Mainland, to submit relevant application through the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD).

Planned buildings `will block sun, air'
Winnie Chong, The Standard 9 March 2007
A number of legislators have opposed the construction of two tall buildings on Hong Kong Island's north shore facing Tsim Sha Tsui, saying they will have a wall effect and block air flow and sunlight in Central.

Re-created historic shops for Central redevelopment
CHLOE LAI , SCMP 27 February 2007
The Urban Renewal Authority will re-create an avenue of old shops in a historic part of Central to revive some of the old charms of the dilapidated area, authority managing director Billy Lam Chung-lun said yesterday.

14 building plans approved in January
Hong Kong Government, 22 February 2007
The Buildings Department approved 14 building plans in January - nine on Hong Kong Island, three in Kowloon and two in the New Territories.

Buildings Department determined to tackle unauthorised building works
Hong Kong Government, 20 February 2007
The Buildings Department was determined to tackle the problem of unauthorised building works by prosecuting private building owners who failed to comply with statutory removal orders, a spokesman for the Department said today (February 20).

Does Hong Kong need the South and West Island MTR lines?
SCMP, 16 February 2007
Hotels are being planned at Ocean Park and development between Pok Fu Lam and Aberdeen has been rampant. Huge high rises are going up. And, again, all of this is being done without the proper infrastructure in place to cope with the increase in people and cars.

Cheung Chau site triggered for auction on March 27
Hong Kong Government, 15 February 2007
The Lands Department announced today (February 15) that a site at Shui Hang, Sai Wan in Cheung Chau, Lot No. 1848 in D.D. Cheung Chau, had been successfully triggered for sale under the Application List System.

Tseung Kwan O Area 56 Property Development
MTR Press Release, 15 February 2007
MTR Corporation Limited (the “Corporation”) announced today that Lansmart Limited, a subsidiary of Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited, has won the tender for the Tseung Kwan O Area 56 Property Development.

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