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Housing strategy comes under fire
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THE People's Council Housing Policy yesterday
Government's long-term strategy as impractical and
not taken into political, economic and social the media reported.
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'Fines to be cut'
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THE Transport Branch was planning to reduce fines for offences under existing legislation governing use of seat belts by front-seat passengers the
the media reported. in private cars, taxis and minibuses,
factors, fines account
The Transport Advisory Committee and Exco had agreed earlier that the for taxi drivers when their Council chairman Tsui Kim-ling
front-seat passengers falled to said
put the Government forecast
on saat belts of
should be half of housing demands was too optimistic.
the amount of fines for the passengers optimistic. themselves. However, the branch was He said people's interest in purchasing thair
later advised by the Attorney-General Own flats investments
and that it in properties might be law to apply different levels of fines was against the spirit of affected by the approach of 1997.
The council said
on different people who had committed the beneficiaries of the proposed interest-
biggest the same offence. free loan scheme would be the Government and the private developers. It said the scheme would be of little value to public housing tenants because they would have to give up their flats and shoulder the burden of fluctuating interest rates.
The council suggested that the scheme be extended to cover familles in the private sector who aligible for public housing.
Scrap public order
law: Toronto group
THE Express reported
HK
that
were
the Association of Toronto, set up by a group of HK migrants who had settled in Canada and who still
It was therefore decided fines would be reduced to $100 for that all offenders under the seat belt law.
'Review scheme'
REPRESENTATIVES of the Federation of Trade Unions yesterday called for changes to the long service payment scheme, the media reported.
At a meeting with Labour Department officials, the group proposed that an employee who had worked for the same organisation for 15 years should be able to enjoy full payment under the scheme when they resigned.
The group suggested that an employee who had been certified by a doctor to be unsuitable for work should also be entitled to long service payment.
owned property and business in HK, 'Curb disco noise'
had issued a statement opposing the Public Order (Amendment) Ordinance.
The association asked the Government to scrap the law immediately the ordinance itself had caused "public alarm."
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Wah Klu Yat Po reported that DB members from the Central and Western and Wan Chal districts would raise questions on the ordinance at their coming board meetings,
Writing in Ming Pao's op-ed page today, a Chinese University lecturer said that the controversy over the public order law showed that HK's existing political structure was not a democratic system.
A SURVEY conducted by the HK Christian Service in six Tsim Sha Tsui found that people discos in who went to such places
to such places regularly suffered from temporary hearing problems. A spokesman for the agency sald the survey found that the average noise level In these discos W88 above 100 decibels. impairment might be permanent for He said that hearing those who worked in discos.
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He urged the Government to draw up legislation to control the noise levels in discos and to set up noise meters in such establishments. The Government should conduct checks on fire safety measures in discos.
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