For immediate release 20 July, 2010 Today, the Hong Kong medical profession (The Hong Kong Paediatric Society, The Hong Kong Geriatric Society, The Hong Kong Asthma Society, The Hong Kong Society of Paediatric Respirology, The Hong Kong Paediatric Nurses Association and Hong Kong Doctors Union) issued a bold and unprecedented letter to the Government,...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Joanne Ooi ’
Doctors Make Unified Call For More Decisive Action on Hong Kong Air Pollution
Idling while air pollution goes through the roof
SCMP Joanne Ooi The timing of the bill to ban idling engines could not be worse. In July last year, the Hong Kong government announced its intention to overhaul the city’s air quality objectives – non-binding caps on the levels of seven air pollutants. To meet the new targets, the government commissioned the engineering...
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Hong Kong’s Tsang Pins Reputation on TV Debate Over Democracy
Frederik Balfour Bloomberg Donald Tsang will debate with Audrey Eu on changes to HK’s electoral system in 2012 on TV in a bid to salvage his reputation with the central government in Beijing. Pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong say that the proposed 2012 package does not go far enough to deliver power into the...
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Improvements in Air Quality in Regional Report Not a Cause for Celebration
SCMP Cheung Chi-fai HK and Guangdong released monitoring results for the region that showed that sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide levels fell 26% and 7% respectively last year, the biggest reductions recorded in 4 years. However, within Hong Kong, roadside monitoring figures show a 13% rise in annual average concentrations of nitrogen dioxide. These...
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