JULY 2007 IN HONG KONG


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Holidays
2 July - Day after Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day

===2007-07-02 (Monday)===

President Hu Jintao stressed Sunday the essence of "one country, two systems" is to uphold the power vested with the central government.[1]
===2007-07-04 (Wednesday)===

★ Welfare activists Tuesday tore up a government commissioned report which threatens to slash payments to single-parent dole recipients under a job-seeking project, saying it has failed to address their problems.[2]
===2007-07-07 (Saturday)===

Secretary for Justice Wong Yan-lung has stepped into the battle for the HK$32 billion estate left by the late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum.[3]
===2007-07-11 (Wednesday)===

★ A 60-meter crane collapsed on a Causeway Bay demolition site Tuesday killing two workers and injuring five others, three of whom were trapped in the wreckage.[4]
===2007-07-13 (Friday)===

★ Police are conducting an internal investigation into whether lawmaker "Long Hair" Leung Kwok-hung was given preferential treatment during a police raid on a Tsim Sha Tsui discotheque last week.[5]
===2007-07-17 (Tuesday)===

★ The financing of the Sha Tin-Central rail link after the merger of the Mass Transit Railway Corp and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corp is hanging in the balance, the Legislative Council was told yesterday.[6]
===2007-07-20 (Friday)===

★ Sixteen people were injured in a nine- vehicle pile-up on New Hiram's Highway, Sai Kung, yesterday afternoon - minutes after a section of the road near the scene caved in, leaving a car partially submerged.[7]
===2007-07-21 (Saturday)===

Miss Hong Kong was crowded tonight. 23 years old Kayi Cheung won the annual beauty pageant. The First runner-up was 21 years old Grace Wong, and the 19 years old Lorretta Chow around up the top 3. [8]
===2007-07-26 (Thursday)===

★ The heatwave has continued to take its toll, with two deaths and more than a dozen people falling ill in the past few days, and the temperature soaring to a record high on southern Hong Kong Island.[9]
===2007-07-28 (Saturday)===

★ Customs officials have arrested seven Hong Kong residents and seized a record amount of cocaine in what is believed to be the largest drug bust in the city.[10]
===2007-07-31 (Tuesday)===

★ Lands Department officials arrived to put up notices ordering an end to the "unlawful occupation" of Queen's Pier; activists filed for a judicial review.[11]

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