August 2007 in Hong Kong

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Holidays

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2007-08-02 (Thursday)

• The stalemate at Queen's Pier, which at one stage threated to turn ugly, ended late last night as the final group of seven protesters, along with a newspaper photographer, voluntarily vacated the roof they had been occupying.1

2007-08-04 (Saturday)

• A 19-year-old girl - diagnosed with a gender identity disorder, and said to have a tendency to dress like a male - pleaded guilty to stealing her brother's identity card and using it to apply for a job.2

2007-08-07 (Wednesday)

• Fears that changes in the English and Chinese papers and the marking system in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination would have a negative effect have proved unfounded.3

2007-08-10 (Friday)

• The integration of Hong Kong and Shenzhen to form a metropolis could make it the third-strongest city economically in the world by 2020, a pro-government think-tank said yesterday.4

2007-08-10 (Friday)

• Tens of thousands of commuters were stranded at underground stations and ferry piers, traffic stalled for kilometres on highways and telephone networks jammed when tropical storm Pabuk made a U-turn west of Hong Kong and set Hong Kong Observatory's alarms ringing.5

2007-08-14 (Tuesday)

• A strike involving hundreds of construction workers, which enters its seventh day today, has developed into a political tussle between two of Hong Kong's most powerful trade unions.6

2007-08-18 (Saturday)

• An 800-meter nullah to be turned into a river will become the focal point of the new Kai Tak City Centre, according to the latest amendment on the Kai Tak outline zoning plan approved by the Town Planning Board.7

2007-08-21 (Tuesday)

• The mastermind of what a District Court judge described as a "spine- chilling" scam involving mainlanders deliberately blinding themselves to make bogus insurance claims was yesterday sentenced to four years and three months in jail.8

2007-08-24 (Friday)

• Thousands of people from all walks of life turned up at a public memorial service last night to pay their last respects to Ma Lik - leader of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong - who died of colon cancer earlier this month at the age of 55.9

2007-08-30 (Thursday)

• The Hospital Authority has unveiled a HK$355 million deal reached with doctors to reduce disparities in salary scales and to encourage specialists to remain in the public sector.10

News collections and sources

• Wikipedia:News collections and sources.
• Wikipedia:News sources - This has much of the same material organised in a hierarchical manner to help encourage NPOV in our news reporting.

zh:香港2007年8月