Hong Kong urged to call time on ‘archaic’ indigenous land policy

April 11, 2019 4:00 PM

BANGKOK (REUTERS) – Hong Kong must end a discriminatory land policy that favours indigenous men, land rights campaigners said on Thursday (April 11), after a top court upheld a minor law that has long been criticised for exacerbating the city’s chronic housing shortage.

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