Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 7, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free july the world handover no big Deal for poor Lam Chu a factory Plains about the squalid government allocated Home that his wife Liu Bikyee and seven of their eight children share in Hong Kongs Western new about people in Hong Kong Lack Money for decent housing by John Leicester Assoc Taietti press ousted Hong urges China to unveil troop plans acc Natori prose armoured Ner Sonniel carriers six a Niles Arp Banner Frantti inter associated press Hong Kong a former Law maker thrown out of office when China recovered Hong Kong urged Beijing yesterday to say How Many troops it plans to station in the former British if the chinese leaders have any respect for the compatriots they should Tell the people what their plans Emily a fierce critic of chivas said in a radio chivas dispatch of troops in trucks and armoured personnel carriers six hours after Hong Kongs change of sovereignty last week showed Little sensitivity for local Lau the display of military might served to remind everybody that the new master has she Britain also criticized the deployment As top China has not said whether More sol Diers from its Peoples liberation army will be coming to Hong Kong the troops were sent to Demon Strate chinese sovereignty and to defend Hong Kong in the unlikely event of the troops have maintained a Low they Are banned from inter Fering in Hong Kongs affairs under a Beijing approved Constitution that promises Hong Kong substantial autonomy As a special administrative Region of but Lau said the relationship Between the troops and the new Hong Kong government should be spelled out unless and until this is clearly the local people will always be worried about possible interference by the she Lau was among 27 lawmakers who lost their jobs with the change of Sov get your garage Sale sign onto Yards its As easy As placing an and in your free press turn unused items in your attic into useful Cash in 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rats still steal food from the Liu was asleep at Midnight last monday when chivas Flag was raised after 156 years of British she had crawled to bed two hours drained by a Day with the rids and an argument with her husband about the pros and cons of Hong Kongs return to i wont remember much about the past few said ill remember the but not much it was nothing for it is hard to get excited about history being her big Day is a few months when the family will move to a three bedroom government subsidized Hong Kong May boast the worlds biggest share of Roll royces for the size of its population and a per capita income that surpasses but behind the glittering skyscrapers Are the Back alleys where old men sleep in the rain and the shacks of the kwai lok temporary housing project where Liu for the Hong Kong dream of luxury and the Man Sions in posh Victoria Peak Are just that a about people some 10 per cent of Hong Kongs population live in abject without Money for decent food and says Chua hoi Wai of the Hong Kong Council of social a group of More than 200 social a major reason is the exorbitant Cost of which forces half the territory million people to live in subsidized an 75squaremetre apartment in a Middle class area can Cost More than million Many people pay More than 40 per cent of their wages in some couples delay marrying because they cannot afford their own extended including their adult children and their often bunk thousands of poor Many of them live in Page Homes apartments that have been subdivided into Dank bedside cubicles Sepa rated by wire Chua says sky High real estate costs Force factories and other businesses to close and Lay off causing disillusion among the Young who know that if they work hard they cannot even afford their own in his first Days As Hong Kongs new chief shipping mag Nate Tung Chenhwa said housing would be a priority in his efforts to create an affluent society with improved Quality of life for Tung set a target of getting new apartments a year onto the mar Ket and raising the percentage of Home owners from the current 4s per cent to 70 per cent within a Liu is not a Tung but watching his speech on television last tuesday reduced her he seemed very she nine years the government moved her and her family from a shed they built on a Hillside to a two Storey temporary House in the new far from Hong Kongs glamorous her a factory and seven of their children sleep in a single capsized room on Grimy they live and eat in a cramped downstairs stuffed with their they have it but unlike Many other poor people in Hong Kong they have something to look Forward the government told them june 23 that it has found them a three bed room subsidized in a few they move into their first real Home since they immigrated from China in Liu and her husband will have their own but the heavily subsidized rent still will Swallow a Quarter of her husbands monthly which already is just enough to get she a i i Aai to get the Best weekend news delivered to 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