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Workers deal with a Tai Po landslide on Bride’s Pool Road near Wu Kau Tang in September. Photo: Dickson Lee

Editorial | Settle Hong Kong slope disputes for the sake of safety

Climate change has increased the risks of landslides in city and this is no time to argue about maintenance work.

Bhutan aims to sell Southeast Asia on its 21-year ‘mindfulness city’ project

Editorial | Much to gain and lose at Hong Kong’s Choi Hung Estate

Higher education: why are more schools in Asia favouring high-rise buildings?

Among them, three junior colleges in Singapore will move to new campuses in 2028 and occupy smaller sites with blocks up to 12 storeys.

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Eunoia Junior College. Photo: Facebook/Eunoia Junior College

Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Authority considers taking on Kowloon City project

Managing director Wai Chi-sing says authority is now exploring taking up a major redevelopment project on its own after failed tender.

Hong Kong’s failed land tender reflects caution among big developers

Development costs, poor returns may be holding back developers from URA joint ventures, analysts say.

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Redevelopment of Hong Kong’s Instagram-famous Choi Hung Estate to begin in 2028

Housing Department tells Wong Tai Sin District Council the first stage of redevelopment will start in 2028 and the second between 2035 and 2036.

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The estate is home to about 7,400 households in 11 seven- to 20-storey buildings built between 1962 and 1964. Photo: Elson LI

Letters | Hong Kong shows its education hub aspiration isn’t just talk

Readers discuss the government’s push to become a magnet for global talent, language requirements for university admissions, a new Chinese culture centre and provision of handrails around the city.

HK$600 million for Hong Kong exhibition hall justified for ‘educational value’

Bernadette Linn says hall will showcase city’s urban development projects and estimated cost is comparable with similar facilities in city.

Need for HK$700 million gallery on prime Hong Kong site questioned

Government plans to set up a gallery on Wan Chai waterfront to showcase major projects such as Northern Metropolis.

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The San Tin area is to become a tech hub under government plans. Photo: Dickson Lee

Singapore’s bold mission to naturalise its urban setting

Singapore’s evolution from Garden City to City in Nature has been the latest step in a decades-long process by which an urban population is learning to coexist with the natural world.

Visitors crossing the bridge of the Cloud Forest at the The Gardens by the Bay, a nature park in Singapore. Photo: Matilde Gattoni

Letters | Gym’s closure underscores need for whistle-blower protections

Readers discuss the lessons to learn from Physical Fitness’s troubles, the practice of offering property buyers cash rebates and New Territories development as an engine of growth.

Hong Kong assures fair bidding process for 3 new mass transit projects

MTR Corp has no advantage in East Kowloon, Kai Tak and Hung Shui Kiu bids as the projects ‘don’t involve a heavy rail system’, official says.

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Letters | Reshape how Hong Kong preserves historic buildings

Readers discuss the conservation of a historic block at Tai Kwun, crowd control measures during festivals, and the significance of the arrival of two new pandas.

The Married Inspectors’ Quarters (Block 4), part of the Tai Kwun complex, collapsed eight years ago. Photo: Sam Tsang

Letters | How Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore could inspire Hong Kong on climate change

Readers discuss climate adaptation strategies Hong Kong could adopt, and options for elderly taxi drivers.

A worker walks past a rooftop solar farm at electric vehicle maker BYD’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China, in September 2017. Photographer: Bloomberg

Exclusive | With major waterway plans in the pipeline, is China in its ‘grand canal era’?

Local governments seeking economy-boosting infrastructure projects are pitching costly waterways, ushering in a ‘grand canal era’ and raising eyebrows.

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Opinion | How Hong Kong can help its SMEs make a difference

The government need not blindly back development projects but instead match enterprises who need work with communities who need help.

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The inaugural Open House Hong Kong highlights the city’s rich urban landscape

The first local edition of the global design phenomenon promises to showcase the city’s rich and varied urban landscape, and place it within a global context

At St Stephen’s College in Stanley, Hong Kong, visitors can tour the first SOS-certified Brutalist buildings in Hong Kong. Photo: courtesy of Kevin Mak

New York, Paris, Milan: where in the world is closest to becoming a ‘15-minute city’?

Study maps progress towards an urban planning ideal, highlighting disparities globally.

Letters | Hong Kong must sustainably balance ecological conservation and development

Readers discuss the debate over the San Tin Technopole, and the practice of feeding pigeons.

Save as much of historic Hong Kong block as possible, heritage experts urge

Most members of Antiquities Advisory Board also support Jockey Club proposal to build canopy to protect surviving parts of Block 4 in Tai Kwun.

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Block 4 of the historic compound in Central is currently under cover. Photo: Sam Tsang

Hong Kong public housing builder secures HK$12 billion syndicated loan

Deal includes HK$3 billion for Housing Society to use on projects to benefit wider community, as builder targets increased cash flow.

Kwun Tong Garden Estate Lotus Towers, a rental estate under the management of the Hong Kong Housing Society. Photo: Jelly Tse

Opinion | Hong Kong’s malls should be more than a shopping paradise for the rich

The city needs to ensure everyone can enjoy its indoor spaces, whether they’re at work, rest or play.

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Hong Kong experts back plan on saving part of partially collapsed Tai Kwun block

Block 4 of Tai Kwun, the former Central Police Station compound, shows ‘signs of continuing deterioration’ after its partial collapse in 2016.

51% of Hongkongers say city’s extreme weather policies ineffective, survey finds

Major green group also urges government to improve design standards for local drainage infrastructure so it can endure stronger floods.

Only 33 per cent of Hongkongers expressed confidence in the government’s extreme weather policies. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Why you should listen to: 99% Invisible’s ‘The Eliza Effect’

This 2019 episode is about one of the first computer programs that could simulate human conversation – and act as a robot therapist

The Eliza Effect harks back to Joseph Weizenbaum, an MIT professor who in the 1960s created one of the first computer programmes that could simulate human conversation. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Letters | How Hong Kong can showcase its urban development with flair

Readers suggest moving Hong Kong’s City Gallery to Kai Tak, and urge the government to take action on cold calls.

Explainer | Hong Kong sales of 2024 subsidised flats unveiled, but is deal sweet enough?

7,132 subsidised flats up for grabs, with a 30 per cent discount, but both figures down on last year’s release.

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last updated:
9 September, 2024
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