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	Heung Yee Kuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The body is a statutory advisory body in the New Territories, Hong Kong.
		It was established by the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance (Chapter 1097) and first enacted December 11, 1959 (as 45 of 1959 originally).
		For example, in 1966, it donated HK$660,000 to start a school in Yuen Long known as Heung Yee Kuk Yuen Long District Secondary School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heung_Yee_Kuk (194 words)

	Political reforms in Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Heung Yee Kuk leaders yesterday denied accusations by democrats that a grant of land in Sha Tin to build their new headquarters was payback by the government for the body's support of Donald Tsang Yam-kuen's election.
		Nearly 100 Election Committee members - representing the Heung Yee Kuk and its allies in the New Territories - nominated Mr Tsang for chief executive in June.
		Kuk vice-chairman Cheung Hok-ming said work on the $80 million project would start next year and be completed in 2007.
	daga.dhs.org /daga/readingroom/newsclips/2005/hk2007/51108scmp06.htm (276 words)

	1997, No (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pursuant to the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance, if he is elected among the village representatives of that area as the Chairman or Vice-Chairman of the Rural Committee, he would automatically be an ex‑officio councillor of the Heung Yee Kuk Full Council.
		The Pat Heung Rural Committee had adopted the guidelines in the Model Rules in 1994 in the previous village election and this was confirmed at a general meeting of the Pat Heung Rural Committee held on 7 November 1998 for this election.
		The importance of the Heung Yee Kuk’s role in the past is thus confirmed and recognised.
	law.hku.hk /clsourcebook/conlawcase/chanwahCA.htm (9579 words)

	PSHWF briefs Heung Yee Kuk on Sheung Shui poultry processing plant project
		The Permanent Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Mrs Carrie Yau, today (April 18) briefed the Heung Yee Kuk on the proposed Sheung Shui poultry processing plant project and exchanged views with Heung Yee Kuk members on the project.
		Mrs Yau repeated that the primary purpose for developing the processing plant to place poultry slaughtering activities under one roof was to achieve the policy objective of separating live poultry from humans through minimising their contacts as far as practicable to reduce the risk of human infection of avian influenza.
		The Administration understood the concerns of Heung Yee Kuk members, North District Council members and residents about the location of the processing plant and would carefully consider the views gauged, she said.
	www.info.gov.hk /gia/general/200604/18/P200604180188.htm (453 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		The Heung Yee Kuk is threatening to seek a judicial review of the government's ban on backyard poultry unless compensation is offered for seized birds.
		He said that when the government was forced to cull poultry during bird flu outbreaks between 1997 and 2004, it not only paid compensation to poultry farms and transport companies, but also made ex-gratia payments to those affected and waived rental charges for wholesalers and retailers totalling HK$272 million.
		At a conference on the growing risk of a bird flu pandemic, Center for Health Protection consultant Thomas Tsang warned that the risk of bird flu jumping the species barrier from birds to become a human-transmissible virus was still high.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_print.asp?art_id=12074&sid=6672302 (573 words)

	Heung Yee Kuk: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Heung Yee Kuk: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		It is established by the Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance (Chapter 1097, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Yuen long () (used to be known as un long), one of the 18 districts of hong kong, located in the north-west of the new territories, is a...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/heung_yee_kuk.htm (494 words)

	Political reforms in Hong Kong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Heung Yee Kuk chairman Lau Wong-fat yesterday challenged media reports saying that the government might enhance Legco representativeness by giving five more seats to district councils.
		As the course will not be revived until autumn, Mr Lau suggested arranging a similar programme for Heung Yee Kuk core members for the time being.
		The Kuk leaders planned to discuss the proposal in their weekly brain-storming session tomorrow.
	daga.dhs.org /daga/readingroom/newsclips/2005/hk2007/50804scmp02.htm (305 words)

	SCMP.com - Hong Kong's leading English news channel - Budget 2000 - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Legislator Cyd Ho Sau-lan, of The Frontier, believed Mr Tsang had held up the new tax only because it was an election year and he would introduce it next year.
		Heung Yee Kuk vice-chairman Daniel Lam Wai-keung said the tax was against the principle of improving contact between the mainland and the SAR.
		Businessman Alan Heung Siu-lun, 33, said if there was a land departure tax it should be deducted from the existing train fare rather than adding another burden on passengers.
	special.scmp.com /budget2000/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000309020520691.html (600 words)

	Let the races begin! - Daai Tou Laam Diary
		And then there is the Heung Yee Kuk, which acts as an umbrella group for the villages, kind of a council of village elders.
		Two of the functional constituency seats in LegCo are for the District Councillors and another for the Heung Yee Kuk.
		The current chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, Lau Wong-fat, is a member of the Liberal Party and serves in LegCo representing the Heung Yee Kee functional seat.
	the-eleven.com /~tjlegg/index.php?/.../915-Let-the-races-begin!.html (614 words)

	education.scmp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Lantau secondary school facing closure next year is hoping to launch a last-ditch rescue plan involving the creation of a school with an international stream catering for the non-Chinese population on the island and a merger with two village primary schools.
		A working group is to explore plans to save the New Territories Heung Yee Kuk Southern District Secondary School in Mui Wo.
		The school's principal, Au Pak-kuen, said its council had decided at its last meeting to explore the survival plan after surveying Chinese and non-Chinese populations in the district, finding that 80 per cent of the Chinese families and 65 per cent of non-Chinese want their children to go to school locally.
	education.scmp.com /ZZZHN6SH8JE.html (559 words)

	HK Gov't Explains Poultry Processing Plant Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Hong Kong government said on Tuesday that it understood local residents' concerns about the poultry processing facility plan in Sheung Shui at the New Territories and would try to minimize possible nuisance which might caused by the plan.
		The Permanent Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food of Hong Kong Carrie Yau Tuesday briefed the Heung Yee Kuk, an organization representing residents of the New Territories, on the proposed Sheung Shui poultry processing plant project and exchanged views with Heung Yee Kuk members on the project.
		Yau repeated that the primary purpose for developing the processing plant to place poultry slaughtering activities under one roof was to achieve the policy objective of separating live poultry from humans through minimizing their contacts as far as practicable to reduce the risk of human infection of avian influenza.
	www.china.org.cn /english/government/166100.htm (316 words)

	HKDF - Response to the Fourth Report of the Constitutional Development Task Force
		The Heung Yee Kuk electorate would consist of the Executive Committee members, including the Chairmen and Vice Chairmen of the 27 Rural Committees.
		The HKDF believes many of these issues could be effectively addressed by folding the existing FCs, with the exception of the Education, Labour, Heung Yee Kuk and District Council FCs into seven composite, multi-seat constituencies as set out in the attached Appendix.
		The Heung Yee Kuk and District Council FCs would be disbanded, as these are political in nature and contradictory to the occupational concept on which the FCs are generally based.
	www.hkdf.org /nl.asp?func=showarticle&article=759&type=2 (3761 words)

	Politics of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The geographical constituencies are elected based on proportional representation system with seats allocated according to the largest remainder method with Hare quotas.
		The functional constituencies are returned using two systems: 4 special functional constituencies (Heung Yee Kuk, Agricultural and Fisheries, Insurance, and Transport) elect their representatives using the preferential elimination system, one (Labour) applies Block vote, while the other 23 ordinary functional constituencies use the first past the post system.
		Under the initial design, the last Legislative Council of Hong Kong under British rule was to be elected according to the Basic Law and would have become the first Legislative Council of the HKSAR.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Hong_Kong (4163 words)

	Panel on Planning, Lands and Works -- Papers
		The Administration's response to the concerns raised by Heung Yee Kuk Councilors at the meeting with Legislative Council Members held on 2 March 2004 [CB(1)1932/03-04(02)]
		The concerns raised by Councillors of Heung Yee Kuk at their meeting with LegCo Members on 29 October 2002 on provisional compensation for land resumption in the New Territories and issues referred to the Administration for comments [CB(1)815/02-03(05)]
		The concerns/suggestion raised by Councillors of Heung Yee Kuk at their meeting with LegCo Members on 29 October 2002 on issues relating to the exemption from the payment of Government rent and issues referred to the Administration for comments [CB(1)815/02-03(01)]
	www.legco.gov.hk /yr03-04/english/panels/plw/papers/plw_e1.htm (1980 words)

	HK2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Heung Yee Kuk has warned that prolonged disputes about patriotism will hinder constitutional development.
		Lau Wong-fat, chairman of the rural affairs body, said that while he hoped there would be a consensus at some stage, the debate could not be allowed to affect the reform process.
		He would not say if his organisation would back universal suffrage by 2007, saying there should be consultation on the principles of development according to the situation in Hong Kong and an effort made towards "gradual and orderly progress".
	daga.dhs.org /daga/readingroom/newsclips/2004/hk2007/40220scmp03.htm (279 words)

	Cheung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Divided by the mountain range on the eastern side of Pat Heung which is almost in the middle of the whole area, we find the western side of the New Territories is fertile flat land consisting of a few early settled clans in which the Tangs are a powerful one.
		Ping Shan Heung will be an example as it indicates not only villages within the Ping Shan area but also some neighbouring villages that were related to the Ping Shan Tang clan through land ownerships[5].
		Lee, M.K. The evolution of the Heung Yee Kuk as a political institution.
	www.asa2000.anthropology.ac.uk /cheung/cheung.html (7622 words)

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		PART IV The Chairman and Vice-Chairmen for the time being of the Kuk shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession, known as the Heung Yee Kuk Incorporated and shall in that name be capable of suing and being sued.
		(2) The Heung Yee Kuk Incorporated shall exercise the powers conferred by subsection (1) only in such manner and subject to such conditions as the Executive Committee shall in its absolute discretion direct or impose, and only for the purpose of promoting the objects of the Kuk.
		(1) The words Heung Yee Kuk (¶mÄ³§½) shall be used solely by, and in connection with, the Kuk established under this Ordinance.
	www.ldc.upenn.edu /Catalog/CatalogList/LDC2000T47/example.e (15235 words)

	Land departure tax would be 'heavy burden' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A proposed land departure tax would be a heavy burden on New Territories residents, rural representatives said yesterday.
		At the monthly Heung Yee Kuk meeting, a majority who spoke gave the thumbs down to the government proposal to tax commuters travelling to and from Lo Wu.
		Kuk member Ng Kam-chuen said the proposal was illogical.
	traveltax.msu.edu /news/Stories/scmp6.htm (188 words)

	Legislative Council of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A "First past the post" system was used for 23 FCs, in which an eligible voter may cast one vote.
		The exceptions were Labour FC in which a voter may cast three votes, and the Heung Yee Kuk, Agriculture and Fisheries, Insurance, and Transport FCs where a preferential elimination system was used due to the small number of voters.
		In the latter a voter must indicate his/her choice in descending order of preference.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Hong_Kong_Legislative_Council (457 words)

	Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor - Newsletter Dec 1998
		In contrast, the majority of the functional constituencies have electorates of less than 1500 voters, and among this group many have corporate voting.
		The five smallest constituencies apart from the Urban and Regional Councils are the Heung Yee Kuk rural organisation; Agriculture and Fisheries; Insurance; Transport; and Finance.
		Apart from the Heung Yee Kuk, these electors are all corporations.
	www.hkhrm.org.hk /english/reports/enw/enw1298b.htm (1339 words)

	Heung Yee Kuk - TheBestLinks.com - December 11, Hong Kong, 1959, New Territories, ...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Heung_Yee_Kuk.html (128 words)

	Mapping the Village Layout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		There is a long story about drawing up village layout to adhere to the requests of HYK, which the land staffs have been eager to implement for various reasons.
		One is for the sake of strengthening the Small House policy, which is one of the rare items that are still under control; the other is the genuine intention to improve the living quality of the village environ.
		The using of the EVA provision is one of the excuses to strangle these developments, which according to some sources that Heung Yee Kuk shall be sending rockets to the bureau for the seemingly constant rejection by the district lands offices.
	hkila.org.hk /laq/spring2002/layout1.htm (628 words)

	Netnewsasia - Hong Kong needs more nudity
		The legendary conservatism of some villagers is the only justification the Kuk’s members have found to justify their opposition.
		Funnily enough, it’s the same reason this self-interested, interfering, undemocratic bunch of aging busybodies use to oppose every sign of progress in the New Territories; be it votes for women or land-rights for non-native sons.
		Perhaps the old farts at the Heung Yee Kuk have the same fear.
	www.netnewsasia.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=1 (780 words)

	Village Representative Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance (Chapter 1097) - Notice of Duly Elected Candidate in Uncontested By-election of Special Councillor for the 31st Term of the Heung Yee Kuk
		Heung Yee Kuk Ordinance (Chapter 1097) - Notice of Vacancy in Office for the 31st Term of the Heung Yee Kuk
		Notice of Confirmation of Co-opted Councillors for the 31st term of the Heung Yee Kuk
	sc.info.gov.hk /TuniS/www.had.gov.hk/vre/text/eng/hyker (289 words)

	Welcome to The Film Services Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		New Territories Heung Yee Kuk Southern District Secondary School
		Call before sending in the application form with information on the location, date, time, synopsis of the film, description of the scenes, size of the crew and cast.
		Compliments to the government and public bodies that have agreed to consider applications to hire premises or facilities under their management for location filming.
	www.fso-tela.gov.hk /accessibility/eng/locations_search_details.cfm?no=2800-SDSS&type=2 (104 words)

	Legislative Council of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A simple plurality system was used for 23 of the FCs, in which an eligible voter may cast one vote.
		The exceptions were Labour FC in which a voter may cast up to three votes, thereby creating a block vote, and the Heung Yee Kuk, Agriculture and Fisheries, Insurance, and Transport FCs where a preferential elimination system was used due to the small number of voters.
		In the latter a voter must indicate preferences rather than approval/disapproval or a single choice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legislative_Council_of_Hong_Kong (1026 words)

	Culture: Arts no longer abstract
		Miss Helen Hung Wei Yee, teacher-in-charge of the scheme in Diocesan Girls' School, shares the same view.
		New Territories Heung Yee Kuk Tai Po District Secondary School also has the same view.
		Artists attending in New Territories Heung Yee Kuk Tai Po District Secondary School, Mr.
	www.com.cuhk.edu.hk /varsity/9911/culture1.html (763 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Hong Kong - Not a City of Life, but a City of Struggle*
		The indigenous peoples organization 'Heung Yee Kuk' of the New Territories - which boasts a small independent left wing - commands 820,000.
		In the mean time we have orientated our propaganda towards the trades unions as genuine traditional organizations of the working class, the Heung Yee Kuk - with some success - and the migrant workers, activists, students and intellectuals.
		We have no illusions and with the background of 0% growth of our economy for 2001 (from 4.5% for 2000) and an absolute recession in 2002 and of the militant struggle we are confident that we will make inroads and develop the resources and support for genuine Marxism.
	www.marxist.com /hong-kong-city-of-struggle141201.htm (3229 words)

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