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KCRC
2. MTR
3. HKHA News
of the Day 30
September 2002 1.
Alternative bridge plan aims for 2010 opening 28
September 2002 1.
New link `to put KCRC on earnings track' 2. Economy blamed as 40pc of latest
HOS flats unsold 3. Beijing studies Zhuhai bridge 4. Wary buyers see HOS
flat sales hit record low 27
September 2002 1.
Housing Authority Chairman Re-appointed 2. Construction Output for the Second
Quarter of 2002 3. Housing Society may quit two projects with private partners
4. SHKP warmed by housing policy 26
September 2002 1.
HK `must look to Yangtze' 2. Developers and analysts propose radical solutions
3. $600m revamp for Ocean Terminal 25
September 2002 1.
The Vet 2. KCRC invited to plan and design the Kowloon Southern Link 3.
S&P sees no end to property fall 4. Property to fall further, says S&P
5. Mid-Victor Li relinquishes Hopewell directorship 6. Software snags make
the road to e-government far from smooth 7. No way to escape from instant
messaging 8. Queue forms at door of Deposed Big Cheeses Club 9. Monitor
10. Wheeler 11. HSI distorted, says study 12. It’s another Sister
Slam 13. Monitor 14. Mini peg panic over . . . for the moment at least
15. Believing in a jet plane 16. Shares weaken as players stay away
17. Developers' shares slump after slow weekend sales 18. HSBC chiefs back
currency peg 19. In his words 20 . Doonesbury by G.B. Trudeau 24
September 2002 1.
I rejected bridge plan, confirms Li 2. Bridge over Pearl River Delta teeming
with red herrings 23
September 2002 1.
Environmental gem emerges from a blot on the Lamma landscape 20
September 2002 1.
Public forum for views on further development of TKO 2. Developers go separate
ways with pricing directions 3. Housing Society to share URA projects
4. Airports warned on growth take-off 19
September 2002 1.
Developer demands freeze on HOS sales 2. Paliburg delays vote on tech buy
3. Sun to launch Linux desktop 4. Industry struggles to get access to $5b
of innovation funding 5. Mid-Levels site may fetch $2 billion 6. Land
revenues way off target 7. Hong Kong Zhuhai Bridge 8. Non Sequitur by
Wiley Miller 9. A Siren in Hong Kong 10. Alarm grows at record smog level 18
September 2002 1.
Set up company for bridge: Wu 2. Sir Gordon keen to build bridges with adversary
3. Deadly worm lurks a year on 4. Cheating at golf a lot more fun with GPS
5. Bond issue may cost Hutchison dearly amid worries over 3G 6. Window XP
7. Not-so-retiring Anson keeps SAR guessing 8. Alarm grows at record smog
level 9. It was all a matter of timing for chainsaw A1 10. S*A*R [Sorry
About Reality] with Tom Hilditch and Shirley Lau 11. S*A*R with tom Hilditch
and Shirley Lau 17
September 2002 1.
Swire eyes next-door King's Rd site 2. Facelift planned for Temple Street
market 3. KCRC considering
buying back West Rail shop malls 4. No quick rebound 5. Drowning under
a sea of paperwork 6. 'Let bookies into soccer betting' 7. Not-so-retiring
Anson keeps SAR guessing 8. Alarm grows at record smog level 9. Department
cites unsafe road access in rejecting applications 10. Four Seasons wins extra
floor area at IFC 16
September 2002 1.
New rules to target shoddy builders 14
September 2002 1.
Flats price war escalates 2. McNealy promises to make sure that Sun rises
again 3. 800 years of data shows commodities immune to trends 4. No 1
SAR tycoon triggers flurry of blue-chip director buy-backs 5. Big Blue to
pump US$23m into Linux centre 6. You'll find very few holes in this busy scheduler
7. Time to heed Greenspan's fiscal advice 8. Unreasonable art of investing 13
September 2002 1.
Nathan Road business fears as section closes for 2 years 2. Moribund PC market
hails Tablet's entry 3. Call to scrap HOS buy-backs 12
September 2002 1.
Monitor 2. Pay-cut rule forces workers to break contracts 11
September 2002 1.
Penny-stocks report puts officials in harsh light - but blames no one 2. 'Whitewash'
attacked by all sides 3. Trio urged to resign over scandal 10
September 2002 1.
Penny for his thoughts 2. Monitor 3. Tycoons urged to forget war of words
4. Record high for SAR air pollution 5. New rules to combat labour disputes
6. Deficit may blow out to $74b, warns ING 7. Buyers snap up Aegean Coast
apartments 9
September 2002 1.
Tien will urge Exco to freeze land sales 2. Li `didn't change view on bridge'
3. Cheung Kong to tempt owners of HOS flats 4. Land sale likely to raise
$345m 5. Donald Tsang joins bridge backers 6. Sir Gordon's comments upset
Li Ka-shing, says Canning Fok 7. Fall in complaints over building industry
graft 8. Top officials face testing time with completion of penny-stocks probe
9. Bamboo weakness worries builders 10. Hacker warns of new viruses 11.
Penny stocks row probe unlikely to lay blame 12. Small developers test market
sentiment in twin offerings 13. Property bubble building up steam 14.
China at forefront of Linux drive 7
September 2002 1.
The Weather of August 2002 2. Speech by the Secretary for Commerce, Industry
and Technology 3. Feasibility study to decide fate of proposed link 4.
SAR urged to be 'headquarters of southern China' 5. Outsourcing `blamed'
for MTR safety switch hitch 6. Does HK deserve a brighter future? 7. MTR
considering joining Zhuhai bridge project, says Gordon Wu Antoine So 8. Storm
develops over Wan Chai reclamation plan 9. Tai Cheung targets returns from
luxury investments 10. Civil servants should think within the box 6
September 2002 1.
I'll help fund HK-Zhuhai bridge, says Stanley Ho 2. High time to build bridges
across Pearl River Delta 5
September 2002 1.
Wheelock chief backs bridge 2. No quick fix for property prices 3. Middle
earners squeezed out 4. Architect proposes new housing approach 5. Survey
shows SAR public confidence has reached an all-time low 6. Flexible' housing
policy plan 7. Piling scam pair given 12 years 8. Plan for 4.8pc spending
cut over 4 years 9. More groups back Zhuhai bridge plan 10. Wheelock supports
bridge without state help 11. Cultural custodian considers cheaper Linux 4
September 2002 1.
No quick fix for property prices 2. SHKP looks to make HK$1.3b as Aegean Coast
units go on sale 3. Cartels' impact least in HK, Singapore: poll 4. Building
sales fall 22.7pc in August 5. Anson shows way forward but tries to keep it
secret 6. Public's confidence in future of SAR plunges to record low 7.
Developers offer flats at discount prices 8. 8 Interest-free loans to help
home buyers 9. Two jailed 12 years for their role in short-pilings scandal
10. SMEs back bridge proposal 11. SMEs warned of virus threat 12. Meta
tags offer cheap option to bells and whistles site 13. How to install the
English dictionary you want 14. Grosvenor to expand in Asia 15.
Clarification 3
September 2002 1.
Contract let for Kai Tak study 2. Skyrail wins HK$865m Lantau cable car role
3. Developers in rush to launch units on SHKP sales success 2
September 2002 1.
Scientific Disneyland' vision for Hong Kong |