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+ THE PILING TENDER ALSO COVERS A FIVE-STOREY MULTI-PURPOSE COMPLEX PROVIDING SHOPS, MARKETS, A RESTAURANT, A CARPARK AND AN INDOOR-GAMES HALL.
+TIN PING ESTATE IS BEING DEVELOPED IN TWO PHASES, WITH CONSTRUCTION WORK NOW WELL UNDERWAY ON THREE TRIDENT 11 BLOCKS FOR SOME 11 400 PEOPLE.+
THE PILING TENDER WAS APPROVED BY THE HOUSING AUTHORITY'S BUILDING COMMITTEE AT ITS LAST MEETING.
KWAI CHUNG NULLAH COLUMNS TO BE STREAMLINED
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THE SHAPE OF THE COLUMNS IN KWAI CHUNG NULLAH WILL BE CHANGED FROM SQUARE TO TRIANGULAR TO SPEED UP THE FLOW OF WATER.
THE STREAMLINING WILL REDUCE THE DANGER OF FLOODING BY INCREASING THE CAPACITY OF THE NULLAH, A LANDS AND WORKS BRANCH SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY.
A $8.9-MILLION CONTRACT FOR THE WORK WAS AWARDED TODAY (THURSDAY) TO NISHIMATSU CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LIMITED BY THE NEW TERRITORIES DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
THE 16-METRE-WIDE NULLAH RUNS 2.7 KILOMETRES FROM THE JUNCTION OF KWAI CHUNG AND CASTLE PEAK ROADS TO KWAI CHUNG CREEK.
WORK WILL START NEXT WEEK AND TAKE 20 MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
SPEEDPOST TO UK RESUMED
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THE POST OFFICE TODAY ANNOUNCED THE RESUMPTION OF THE SPEEDPOST SERVICE BETWEEN HONG KONG AND THE UNITED KINGDOM.
THE SERVICE HAD BEEN SUSPENDED SINCE JUNE 5.
TRAFFIC NOTES ***
TRAFFIC ON THE SECTION OF TSUEN KING CIRCUIT, BETWEEN ON YAT STREET AND ON YIN STREET, TSUEN WAN, WILL BE RE-ROUTED TWO WAYS FROM 10 AM ON SATURDAY (JUNE 9), FOLLOWING COMPLETION OF ROAD WORKS, THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY.
AT THE SAME TIME, LEARNER DRIVERS WILL BE PROHIBITED FROM ENTERING THE CUL-DE-SAC OF BERWICK STREET WEST OF PAK TIN STREET, SHEK KIP ME!, TO ENHANCE THE SAFETY OF MENTALLY RETARDED STUDENTS IN THE VICINITY.