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An ill-tempered Blatter denied Fifa was in crisis, at a press conference in Zurich. > SPORT C8 ILLEGAL BUILDING Minister’s ultimatum to textbook ‘monopolies’ Government is urged to draft clear buildings policy streets in protest at the government’s An angry education minister “forced demolition” of their illegal threatened Hong Kong’s textbook after Chief Executive Donald Tsang’s Mid-Levels structures. “monopolies” with competition home is embroiled in row over illegal structures The members, mostly from Yuen from a government publisher if they Long, went as far as demanding com- did not act now to split the sale of ...................................................... pensation if any unauthorised struc- textbooks and teaching materials. not be tolerated, no matter where tures were removed. The publishers, who last year were Olga Wong and Gary Cheung they are located and even if owners An official said the problem had given a year to do so, say it will take [email protected] are willing to pay for them.” far-reaching implications and that a three more years. > CITY C1 Tsang’s flat in MacDonnell Road thorough study was vital. The government was urged yester- was reported to have a balcony en- Tsang defended himself yester- day to devise a clear policy on illegal closed without permission. Secretary day and said he was under the im- structures and take action against for Constitutional Affairs Stephen pression the flat in question did not any that posed an immediate danger. Lam Sui-lung and Education Bureau have illegal structures. Some inde- With Chief Executive Donald Secretary Michael Suen Ming-yeung pendent experts backed his claim. Tsang Yam-kuen now caught up in have already been found to have un- “My understanding is that adding the widening controversy, the presi- authorised structures on properties. glass windows on a balcony is not dent of the Hong Kong Institute of Business leaders and politicians have necessarily an offence … I was not in- Surveyors, Wong Bay, said the crack- been similarly exposed. formed by the Buildings Department down should be a priority in both ur- Meanwhile, some members of that I have an illegal structure other ban and rural areas. the Heung Yee Kuk, the powerful than two which were removed within “We must not leave the public any rural body, threatened to take to the 20 days.” impression that they can get away He said he was not above the law First cash offer to a victim with breaching the law,” Wong said. and would make any changes de- Lawmaker Lee Wing-tat of the manded by the Buildings Depart- of Tiananmen crackdown Democratic Party said he had called ment. The department did not reply for an urgent legislative meeting on to the Post’s inquiries. In a move hailed by some as a first June 14 to discuss the issue. The case is nevertheless politically step by Beijing to break a political “The development chief [Carrie embarrassing for Tsang, who just six taboo, the central government has Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor] should come days ago reminded government offi- offered cash to a victim of the Street sweepers. Police detain a protester during a demonstration in Hohhot , Inner Mongolia up with a clear policy as soon as pos- cials to ensure their properties were Tiananmen Square crackdown, . About 100 people gathered in the city on Monday to express their anger at the death of a herder who sible. She has been evading the fact free of illegal structures. according to an open letter from the was trying to block coal trucks driven by Han Chinese. There were a number of arrests. It followed a week of that structures like enclosed balco- Tiananmen Mothers Support demonstrations that have rattled the authorities. Photo: The New York Times > MONGOLIANS ‘SIDELINED’ A6 nies and rooftop glasshouses should Tsang’s balcony on MacDonnell Road > ‘PAY US TO REMOVE STRUCTURES’ C1 Group. > LEADING THE NEWS A3 Communist ART propaganda Cheng Dai-chien art sells pushes out Hollywood for a record HK$191m Amid a boom in market for Chinese art, late master’s which fetched a total of HK$680 Mainland cinema million during the 90-minute auction works confirmed as being among the most valuable yesterday. schedules are cleared of ...................................................... It showed the growing fever in the Bids for Lotus and Mandarin Chinese art market. US blockbusters to make Amy Nip, Priscilla Jiao Ducks – a 1947 piece – started at Last week, a painting by Qi – a and Zuleika Sedgley way for party’s new film HK$10 million but it eventually sold contemporary of Chang – set a record for nearly 20 times that amount after for modern art and calligraphy at a ...................................................... A painting by the late Chang Dai- 30 rounds of bidding at the Hong mainland auction after it sold for chien fetched HK$191 million at an Kong sale. The price was more than 425.5 million yuan (HK$508.5 Priscilla Jiao auction yesterday, setting a world nine times Sotheby’s estimate of million). [email protected] record for his works and offering fur- HK$20 million. The work was bought Bian Yiwen, general manager of ther evidence of the remarkable by an Asian private collector. an auction firm in Beijing, said: Hollywood blockbusters including boom in the Chinese art market. The sale price smashed the previ- “China’s economy is expanding fast. Transformers 3 and Cars 2 have been ous record for Chang’s works, set in People’s appreciation for art is pushed back on mainland cinema May last year for his painting Ai Hen growing and they also can afford [to schedules to make way for the Com- Hu in Beijing, which was sold for 100 spend] more. It is not surprising to munist Party’s latest propaganda million yuan (HK$120 million). see this fever building for Chinese film. The Founding of a Party, set to It also makes the canvases of paintings.” premiere across the mainland on Chang – who died in 1983 at the age of Meilin Wang, the head of Chinese June 15, marks the 90th anniversary $ 84 – among the most valuable paint- painting, 20th century and contem- of the Communist Party on July 1. 140 m ings in the world, exceeded in value porary Asian art at Bonhams Asia, The new film boasts 107 cast only by those from the likes of Pablo said the market for Chinese art had members, including Hong Kong’s The price, in US dollars, for the Picasso, Qi Baishi and Andy Warhol, seen a huge boom in the past two Chow Yun-fat and John Woo. world’s most expensive painting, some of whose work sold for more years. Last year, the total auction pro- The 70 million yuan (HK$83.9 No 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock, than Chang’s at last year’s auction. ceeds from sales of Chinese art million) film is expected to rake in sold in 2006 by David Lotus was one of the 25 pieces reached 57.3 billion yuan (HK$68.6 nearly 800 million yuan – a record for Geffen featured in the Mei Yun Tang Collec- billion), an increase of 150 per cent a mainland film – but it will not be tion of Paintings by Chang Dai-chien over the previous year. challenged by the usual summer in- vasion of US blockbusters, according to Gao Jun , spokesman for the New Film Association, one of the BUSINESS WORLD mainland’s main cinema chains. FOCUS “The cinemas are confident that the movie will set a new box office record because Hollywood block- Pay rises A CURE FOR Hooked on busters have been scheduled for screening in late July,” Gao said. HEALTH The film has become a national ‘no threat the myth event, with nearly 20 provincial and municipal propaganda departments SYSTEM’S involved in making it, he said. to China’ of hookahs Other screening slots this month ILLS will be filled by other propaganda films and a smattering of overseas Li & Fung chief sees no Young flock to water pipe, movies that will not be popular serious challenge to thinking it’s safer than enough to threaten the box office > CONTINUED ON A3 world’s factory PAGE B1 PAGE A4 cigarettes PAGE A13.
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