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Richland Gardens
Richland Gardens () is a home ownership scheme and Private Sector Participation Scheme in Kowloon Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near the Kai Yip Estate. It was jointly developed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and Shui On Land, Shui On Land Limited. It consists of 22 residential blocks and a shopping centre completed in 1985. It was built next to Kai Tak and is one of the closest buildings to the former airport. Kowloon Bay Health Centre Incident In 1995, the government proposed the construction of a clinic which included a treatment centre for HIV/AIDS infection. The Richland Gardens residents were worried about bringing undesirable people and infectious disease to the area, and strongly protested against the plan. Although the centre could still open in 1999, the residents continued to protest against the centre, by blocking access to the clinic, annoying and attacking patients and health care workers. Several residents were then sued by the Equal Opportunities Commission (Hong ...
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Richland Garden
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Hong Kong Housing Authority
The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in April 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an government agency, agency of the Government of Hong Kong. In the same year, the Resettlement Department and the Building Section of the Urban Services Department were merged to form the Housing Department, which acts as the Housing Authority's executive body. History The modern Housing Authority was founded in 1973. In 2005, most Housing Authority-owned shopping centres and car parks were controversially divested to The Link REIT. A citywide scandal erupted in 2015 after 2015 Hong Kong heavy metal in drinking water incidents, heavy metals were found in the water supply of some housing estates, schools, and private residential buildings. The contamination was first identified at Public housing estates in the Kai Tak development area#Kai Ching Estate, Kai Ching Estate, opened in 2013. A task force found that the contam ...
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Residential Buildings Completed In 1985
A residential area is a land used in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing may vary significantly between, and through, residential areas. These include single-family housing, multi-family residential, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may permit some services or work opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It may permit high density land use or only permit low density uses. Residential zoning usually includes a smaller FAR ( floor area ratio) than business, commercial or industrial/manufacturing zoning. The area may be large or small. Overview In certain residential areas, especially rural, large tracts of land may have no services whatever, such that residents seeking services must use a motor vehicle or other transportation, so the need for transportation has resulted in land development following existing or planned transport infrastructure such as rail and road. Development patterns may be regu ...
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Education Bureau
The Education Bureau (EDB) is a policy bureau responsible for formulating and implementing education policies in Hong Kong. The bureau is headed by the Secretary for Education and oversees agencies including University Grants Committee and Student Finance Office. History The Education Department ( and before 1983) was responsible for education matters in the territory, with the exception of post-secondary and tertiary education. In 2003, the department was abolished and a new bureau, the Education and Manpower Bureau ( abbreviated EMB) was formed. In July 2007, under newly re-elected Chief Executive Donald Tsang, the manpower portfolio was split away to the new Labour and Welfare Bureau, leaving this body as the Education Bureau. The bureau was formerly housed at the Former French Mission Building. In 2022, the Education Bureau introduced the Citizenship and Social Development subject, to replace Liberal Studies as one of the four core subjects in senior secondar ...
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Environmentally Friendly Linkage System
Kai Tak Smart and Green Mass Transit System (), also known as the Kai Tak Monorail (), is a government-proposed monorail system to be located in the Kai Tak Development area of Hong Kong with 5 stations. The system was first proposed in 2012 and was expected to be completed in 2023, at a cost of HK$12 billion, and to take up 15 percent of public transport in the Kowloon East Development. It was scrapped officially in 2020, but revived in 2023. History Throughout the 1990s, a number of master plans were drawn up to prepare for the eventual reuse of the Kai Tak airport land. The South East Kowloon Development Statement (1993) and the Feasibility Study for South East Kowloon Development (1998) both proposed that the site be served by two conventional Mass Transit Railway lines running underground. A 2001 study removed the line serving the former runway area, replacing it with a proposed "trolley bus or light rail system". In light of the Protection of the Harbour Ordinance and ov ...
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Equal Opportunities Commission (Hong Kong)
The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) is a public body in Hong Kong that investigates discrimination complaints and promotes equal opportunity, equality. It was created in 1996 as the city's first quango, semi-governmental agency focused on sex discrimination. Its scope has since been expanded to include anti-discrimination, protecting groups based on race (human categorization), race, disability, and family status. History Background In the early 1990s, women in Hong Kong were not protected against sex discrimination or sexual harassment, because courts could not directly enforce human rights convention that included the right to equality. The median wage of women in 1994 was about a third lower than that of men, and classified advertisements often limited senior positions in the private sector to men and low-paying jobs only sought female applicants. The Government of Hong Kong, Hong Kong government has had a history of opposing anti-discrimination legislation. When th ...
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Infectious Disease
An infection is the invasion of tissue (biology), tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host (biology), host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an Disease#Terminology, illness resulting from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens, most prominently pathogenic bacteria, bacteria and viruses. Hosts can fight infections using their immune systems. Mammalian hosts react to infections with an Innate immune system, innate response, often involving inflammation, followed by an Adaptive immune system, adaptive response. Treatment for infections depends on the type of pathogen involved. Common medications include: * Antibiotics for bacterial infections. * Antivirals for viral infections. * Antifungals for fungal infections. * Antiprotozoals for protozoan infections. * Antihelminthics for infections caused by parasi ...
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Kai Tak
The Kai Tak Development (), abbreviated as "KTD" and formerly called South East Kowloon Development (), refers to the redevelopment of the former Kai Tak Airport site in Kai Tak (constituency), Kai Tak, Kowloon, Hong Kong. After the airport relocated to Chek Lap Kok in 1998, the Hong Kong government planned for urban development on the old airport site. The plan calls for a multi-purpose sports complex, a metro park, the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, a hotel, a housing estate, and commercial and entertainment construction projects over an area of more than . The plan also covered nearby development in areas including Ma Tau Wai, Kowloon City, San Po Kong, Kowloon Bay and Kwun Tong. The planned population is 86,000 people, accommodated in 30,000 housing units, including 13,000 constructed as part of Public housing in Hong Kong, public housing estates. The total gross floor area is over with over of open space. The total cost for the development is about HK$100 billion. After sever ...
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Shui On Land
Shui On Land Limited () is the flagship property company of the Hong Kong–based Shui On Group. It is engaged in developing large-scale city-core development projects and integrated residential development projects in major cities in China, including Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Dalian and Foshan. The company is headquartered in Shanghai and its chairman is Vincent Lo. Shanghai's Xintiandi was developed by Shui On Land as "the first large-scale city-core redevelopment project by Shui On Land." Shui On Land was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2006. See also *Real estate in China Real estate in the People's Republic of China is developed and managed by public, private, and state-owned red chip enterprises. In the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, the real estate sector in the People's Republic of China (PRC) ... References External linksShui On Land Limited
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Kai Yip Estate
The following shows the public housing in Hong Kong, public housing estates (including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS)) in Ngau Tau Kok, Jordan Valley, Hong Kong, Jordan Valley, Kowloon Bay and surrounding neighbourhoods, in Kwun Tong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Overview Choi Ha Estate Choi Ha Estate () is a public estate and TPS estate in the hillside of Jordan Valley near Amoy Gardens. It consists of 3 blocks built in 1989. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 3 in 2000. Its name comes from nearby Choi Ha Road. Houses Choi Ha Estate is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net. Choi Fook Estate Choi Fook Estate (), formerly Choi Wan Road Site 3B (), is a public estate in Ping Shan, Kowloon, Ping ...
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Kowloon
Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a population density of in 2006. It is the smallest, second most populous, and most densely populated of the divisions. Location Kowloon is located directly north of Hong Kong Island across Victoria Harbour. It is bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait to the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Butterfly Valley, and Stonecutters Island, Stonecutter's Island to the west, a mountain range, including Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock to the north, and Victoria Harbour to the south. Administration Kowloon comprises the following Districts of Hong Kong, districts: *Kowloon City District, Kowloon City *Kwun Tong District, Kwun Tong *Sham Shui Po District, Sham Shui Po *Wong Tai Sin District, Wong Tai Sin *Yau Tsim Mong District, Yau Tsim Mong Name The name 'Kowloon' () ...
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