From the South China Morning Post this week in: 1979
Hong Kong's second airport could be built across the border on the mainland, Hilton Cheong-Leen proposed in the Legislative Council.
'Since relations with China are expected to improve in the long term, perhaps the alternative of building a second airport across the Shumchun border, with the co-operation of China, could be considered.' Such an airport, he said, would be less expensive to build than at the site under consideration at Chek Lap Kok. 'It would also serve ... the two million Hong Kong residents who will be living in the New Territories by the end of the 1980s,' he said in the resumed debate on the financial secretary's budget proposals.
Tributes to well-liked disc jockey Bob Williams were contrasted sharply by G. Stream in the correspondence columns.
After a preamble about the sad news of 'Uncle Bob's' death and how much he meant to his listeners, the correspondent went on: 'I find it surprising, therefore, that Mr Ted Thomas in his programme on Saturday morning dismissed Bob's death in a few seconds, while Aileen Bridgewater, on what is after all the rival station, saw fit to devote at least 10 minutes to pay tribute to an 'old friend'.
'Can it be, I wonder, that Commercial Radio has more heart than Radio Hong Kong?'
