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KCRC
2. MTR
3. HKHA News
of the Day 31
July 2002 1.
Renovate rather than rebuild, Suen says
2. Border zone plans on drawing board
3. Improved flight info displays in airport upgrades
4. Rejection of Tai O
revamp 'against pledge on tourism'
5. Cheung
Kong wins approval for hotel
6. Workforce: a solution to two problems
7. AIG Tower rising soon on Furama Hotel site 30
July 2002 1.
Lai Sun joins $4b office venture at Furama site 29
July 2002 1.
Government spares no effort in protecting statutory rights and benefits of construction
employees
2. Building workers keep up pressure
3. New way to watch how
bridges wobble 27
July 2002 1.
Draft Clear Water Bay Peninsula South DPA announced
2. Draft Wong Nai Chung
Outline Zoning Plan amended
3. Draft Tsing Yi Outline Zoning Plan amended
4. Hong Kong Planning Standards and Guidelines revised
5. Cheung Kong revises
development plan 26
July 2002 1.
Man extorting Sheung Shui construction site arrested
2. Henderson nets $200m
in Tsuen Wan
3. Warning to URA on cost of projects
4. Tunnel project queried
5. S*A*R [Shocked and Rocked] with tome Hilditch and Vivienne Chow
This week's top rocker
6. S*A*R [Shocked and Rocked] with tome Hilditch and
Vivienne Chow
Top Dogs and Cool Cats
7. Cyber-squatters play the name
game
8. Interfacing can be hard to do 25
July 2002 1.
Project Agreement on MTR Penny's Bay Rail Link
2. Transcript of the Acting
SETW
3. Consultancy contract awarded for improvement to Tung Chung Road
4. Penny's Bay deal inked after Legco go-ahead
5. Park rail-link deal signed
after Legco go-ahead
6. Building firm probe sought 24
July 2002 1.
Contract for Water Mains and Sewerage Works from Siu Ho Wan to Yam O awarded
2. MTRC dividend waiver deal 'likely'
3. Disney gave SAR 'no guarantees'
4. Swire thinks smaller in Island East project
5. Easier rules spur rezoning 23
July 2002 1.
Lawmakers block start to Penny's Bay rail link
2. Housing body in privatisation
study
3. MTR seeks developers for station
4. Sun Hung Kai offering Park
Island sweeteners
5. Antony Leung to ask MTRC to reveal details of $2b rail
project
6. MTRC seeks initial interest for station project 22
July 2002 1.
Firm eyes all options near bridge link
2. Disney 'concentrating on opening
HK park' 20
July 2002 1.
Housing Authority Exhibition Centre Opens
2. Lung Kwu Chau Jetty to be reconstructed
3. How Disney left us out of the loop
4. Go-ahead for golf course will
ruin fantasy for visitors, says theme park 19
July 2002 1.
Disney battles Discovery Bay's golf course plan
2. Theme park firm places
blame
3. Tourist hostel plan for historic estate
4. Excellent Estate Maintenance
Services Awards 16
July 2002 1.
Building plans approved in May
2. SHKP thinks big in sell-off of small malls
3. Shui On profit plunges 79pc as market slows
4. Shui On hit by slowdown
in government housing orders
5. HKR clear for Siena phase three 15
July 2002 1.
Arup Communications successfully completes Hospital Authority consultancy
2. HK 'could save $45b on public works' 11
July 2002 1.
LQ16:Shatin to Central Link
2. MTR proposes south side railway
3. Battle
ahead for green revolution
4. Territory smothered by severe smog
5. Cross-border
pollution scheme 'in 3 years'
6. Glimpse into minister's photo album
7.
SAR [Sublime and Ridiculous] with Tom Hilditch and Vivienne Chow - Battle of the
Brands
8. SAR [Sublime and Ridiculous] with Tom Hilditch and Vivienne Chow
- Know Your Product
9. Portuguese passports stuck on slow boat from
China
10. Cartoon from
SCMP 10
July 2002 1.
Project Agreement on MTR Penny's Bay Rail Link
2. Wave of Weblish gives surfers
bad case of Internesia
3. Slow walk in park
4. Increased integration call
to lift cross-border edge
5. Goldman Sachs sees gold in faster economic co-operation
6. 'Back-door' $800m aid for Disney rail attacked
7. Champion needed for antiquities
buried in bureaucracy
8. Care and caution needed to harness delta force
9. URA's initial project attracts seven bidders
10.
Developer stakes out St John's sitet
11. Options limited by history
12.
New zoning allows poor rural land to turn residential
13. Region advised against
all-out push into high technology
14. The next step forward
15. A Bumpy
ride
16. Seven bid for $1.7b project at Tsuen Wan
17. MTRC to build Disneyland
linkMTRC to build Disneyland link
18. A bridge too far?
19. Two sides
of the divide 9
July 2002 1.
S-A-R [STRONG AMID RECESSION] with Tom Hilditch and Vivienne Chow 6
July 2002 1.
Roving Exhibitions on Railway Development
2. Sha Tin and Tai Po Outline Zoning
Plans amended
3. Draft Kwai Chung Outline Zoning Plan amended
4. Draft
North-East Lantau Outline Zoning Plan approved
5. Draft Ngau Tau Kok and Kowloon
Bay Outline Zoning Plan approved
6. Draft Mid-Levels West Outline Zoning Plan
approved
7. Decaying area to be renewed in $465m plan
8. Suen retreat
on owner target
9. Sensational answers rewarded 5
July 2002 1.
PCCW continues sell-off
2. Qualified engineers 'in short supply'
3. Lesson
in history At 93, John Kenneth Galbraith has seen it all - and regulated much
of it. Yet even he is shocked by the excesses of recent scandals plaguing corporate
America, reports Rupert Cornwell
4. Taiwan has to boost efforts against rising
China economy
5. More flexible planning system announced
6. KCRC may expand
new line
7. Another three stations proposed for new line 4
July 2002 1.
LCQ13: Public consultation by Town Planning Board
2. Tung Chung Cable Car
Project
3. MTR wins Lantau cable car project
4. MTRC awarded franchise
to build Lantau cable car
5. A New Frontier for MTR
6. People must speak
up if they want more democracy, says Anson Chan 3
July 2002 1.
MTR Corporation Implements Prolog Manager and Prolog WebSite for Major Hong Kong
Transportation Project
2. MTR faces $68b bill in rail tie
3. Hotel plan
too much like home
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