Message from PDD Chairman (June 2011)

FIG Working Week 2011, Marrakech, Morocco, 18-22 May, 2011
I attended FIG Working Week on 18-22 May 2011. I joined the meetings and Technical Sessions of Commission 8. Commission 8 focus on Spatial Planning and Development matters. I made contact with representatives from RICS and other institutes. I gave some presentation in the meetings and shared with them the recent developments in Hong Kong. I was also appointed by the FIG Council and endorsed in the General Assembly to be a member of a newly established “Task Force on Property and Housing”. This Task Force is headed by Chryssy Potsion, Vice President of FIG.

Metro Radio 「新城地產街」節目
On 11 June 2011, I joined a discussion in the 「新城地產街」programme of the Metr o Radio to talk about the issues concerning building safety, unauthorized structures and property market. Professor Patrick Lau also attended in this programme.