October 04, 2004

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Only in hong Kong part 392

The SCMP reports on a plan that only Hong Kong can love:

Hundreds of trees near the Stanley waterfront will be chopped down to make way for Hong Kong's first garden park in a bid to boost tourism. The 48,477-square-metre site, bordered by historic Murray House, Ma Hang Estate and Cape Road, will be cleared under the Housing Authority plan...

The park will have two sections. Two-thirds of the site will be turned into a public park, with a hiking trail, nature education path and playgrounds. The rest of the site will become the horticultural park, which will feature different types of Chinese-style plantings. Visitors will be charged to enter.

Knocking down trees to make a park. It's actually quite funny, but inevitable all the same.

UPDATE: What Phil said.

posted by Simon on 10.04.04 at 12:31 PM in the




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Damn! This will bring even more of the lower orders, possibly even NT riff-raff, to the south side.

posted by: fumier on 10.04.04 at 01:15 PM [permalink]




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