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Yeung Man-tin in Wen Wei Po said that apart from releasing any information concerning dangerous slopes, the authorities should swiftly rectify the problem.
Kwong Yum-kel in the Express blamed the Director of Education, Y.T. Li, for trying to make excuses for his department's failure to cancel classes in time and for his bureaucracy and lack of flexibility in handling the matter.
AIRPORT
(Editorials)
In the light of the rising costs of the airport projects, the HK Economic Times and HK Times urged the authorities to increase transparency in a bid to reinforce public confidence in the Government. The Economic Times maintained that the Chinese side had the duty and responsibility to raise questions concerning those aspects of the financing of the projects that caused concern among HK people, for the sake of a smooth transition.
(Columns)
Lee Yu in Wen Wet Po questioned whether the airport must be situated at Chek Lap Kok, why it had to be so large-scale and had to be completed by 1997. He also wondered why the railway could not be replaced by bus and ferry services. Last of all, he doubted whether the British side was really so good-hearted as to want to leave us a new airport when it handed over the territory back to China.
Lo Heung in Ta Kung Pao maintained that it was most inexpensive and convenient to link the airport with ferries and that it was difficult to understand why the Government had not given any thought to the idea but had merely concentrated on the complex and costly airport rail link.
Hon Man, also in Ta Kung Pao, regretted that the Government had attached so little importance to the views of the Airport Consultative committee, which represented the whole of HK people. The committee was only informed of the Government's decision but was not consulted before hand, he said.
LAW AND ORDER
(Editorials)
Commenting on the stationing of a Chinese police liaison officer in HK, Sing Pao said that the crux of the matter was whether his duty was confined to passing information and not matters of jurisdiction. The paper felt that we should not be too sensitive about the secondment but should wait and see how it worked. Wah Kiu Yat Po also agreed that we should not be psychologically bothered but should co-operate with the Chinese police in the fight against crime. The New Evening Post, welcoming the development, criticised those HK people who
deliberaely aroused public worries of Chinese interference in local
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affairs. The same point was made by a Wen Wei Po columnist Man Ko-yeung and Ta Kung Pao's Kwan Chiu.
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