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Hong Kong's record floods, still fresh in our minds from last week |
As captured by numerous amateur video enthusiasts and uploaded to YouTube…
Video records of the worst black-rain downpour in almost 30yrs in HK, completely blocking the road to the Airport (Mountain Landslide) at Tung Chung. The video's below seem to be doing the rounds this week on e-mail, but we at SKYLINE have collected a good selection of them all in one location for your viewing !
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-aMQtKzsS0&feature=related
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=ajr6bzxDs44&feature=related
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=V8PaEQp36OU&feature=related
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=HWFN_HPsHow&NR=1
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=R2uTKyK1c9k&feature=related
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=p4cCTH8CM2U
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=2WaXEQ0cV8M&feature=related
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=2vc6IJMcFWs&feature=related
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=O5eHhvajZtE&feature=related |
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News Headlines
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| Culture hub clears crucial cash hurdle |
| Diana Lee, The Standard 19 June 2008 |
The government has cleared a major hurdle in the controversial West Kowloon cultural hub project after a Legislative Council committee approved HK$21.6 billion in funding. |
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| Legco panel backs HK$21b for arts hub but wants accountability |
| Eva Wu, SCMP 19 June 2008 |
Lawmakers gave initial approval yesterday for a grant of HK$21.6 billion to the body which will build and manage cultural facilities in the West Kowloon arts hub, but demanded it report regularly to the Legislative Council. |
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| LCQ18: Property development rights granted to railway corporations |
| Hong Kong Government, 18 June 2008 |
A question by the Hon Lau Kong-wah and a written reply by the Secretary for Transport and Housing, Ms Eva Cheng, at the Legislative Council meeting today (June 18) |
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| Construction Output for the First Quarter of 2008 |
| Hong Kong Government, 13 June 2008 |
The total gross value of construction works performed by main contractors in the first quarter of 2008 increased by 8.5% in nominal terms over a year earlier to $24.1 billion, according to the provisional results of the Quarterly Survey of Construction Output released today (June 12) by the Census and Statistics Department (C&SD). |
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| Rail ride to give park tunnel vision |
| Dennis Eng, SCMP 13 June 2008 |
A new rail system at Ocean Park is expected to start transporting up to 10,000 people an hour between different areas of the theme park by the middle of next year. |
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Upcoming Event
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21 June 2008
Workshop Forum - Make the Central Waterfront everyone's favourite destination
Organizer : Designing Hong Kong
Time : 09:30am - 01:00pm
Venue : The Fringe Studio, 1/F, Fringe Club 2 Lower Albert Road, Central
Details : The Government is consulting the public on concepts for the Central Waterfront. Are we on the right track? What should and should not be done? How to improve the plans, and make the Central Waterfront a world class destination with an abundance of activities and places to enjoy?
Free admission, advance registration essential.
Tel: 2525 4416 or 2521 7251
Email: michele@hkfringeclub.com
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