JUNE 2007 IN HONG KONG


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Holidays
19 June - Tuen Ng Festival

===2007-06-02 (Saturday)===

★ The Legislative Council's health services panel has given its full support to a government proposal to impose a fixed-penalty fine of HK$1,500 on errant smokers.[1]
===2007-06-04 (Monday)===

★ Frontline public doctors are gearing up for industrial action, and have demanded that the Hospital Authority resolve within two weeks what they see as an unfair pay scale for some 2,000 doctors hired after year 2000.[2]
===2007-06-06 (Wednesday)===

★ The problem of triads infiltrating primary and secondary schools is serious, according to a survey. The poll, conducted last month by the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, shows more than 20 percent of 524 students interviewed had schoolmates claiming to be triad members.[3]
===2007-06-11 (Monday)===

★ Slightly more than half of 600 people polled in a survey strongly believed the chief executive should be returned by universal suffrage in 2012.[4]
===2007-06-12 (Tuesday)===

★ A two-tonne cable car plunged more than 50 metres from the troubled Ngong Ping 360 line on Lantau Island Monday night. The popular tourist attraction was closed for the night and there were no injuries.[5]
===2007-06-14 (Thursday)===

★ The government proposes to drastically amend the Domestic Violence Ordinance which, for the first time, will give minors the right to protect themselves from abuse and allow a court to direct an abuser to receive anti-violence treatment, a source said Wednesday.[6]
===2007-06-22 (Friday)===

★ Abuse of the party drug ketamine can lead to permanent organ damage, doctors have warned. According to doctors at Tuen Mun and Princess Margaret hospitals, abuse of ketamine - the second-most abused drug in Hong Kong - may cause severe bladder dysfunction or even kidney failure.[7]
===2007-06-26 (Tuesday)===

★ A HK$3 billion bid from Wheelock Properties has triggered an auction for a Wong Tai Sin residential site, where analysts believe developers could face potential uncertainty over the plot ratio.[8]

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