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The government steps up its efforts to tackle the city's air pollution quandary as Secretary for the Environment Wong Kam-sing unveils "A Clean Air Plan for Hong Kong". Secretary for Transport and Housing Professor Anthony Cheung Bing-leung also attends the launch to set out how various bureaus and departments will work together to improve air quality.

Developers get a chance to bid on the two residential sites allocated for the government's "Hong Kong Property for Hong Kong People" scheme. Bids are expected to come in at some 30 per cent lower than for comparable lots as the flats built on the sites at the former Kai Tak airport will have to be sold to Hong Kong residents. Surveyors expect the sites to go for between HK$3.87 billion and HK$4.3 billion.