Protests to stop demolition of Queens ferry pier

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(29 Jul 2007) SHOTLIST • 1. Wide pan from Victoria Harbour to the coastline • 2. Wide of Queen's Pier • 3. Close-up of Queen's Pier • 4. Tilt down to protesters, from a banner: (Chinese) No farewell • 5. Close-up of the three protesters • 6. Close-up of protesters' belongings • 7. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Chan King-fai, 25, protester on hunger strike: • Queen's Pier is architecture with high historical value. Along with City Hall and Edinburgh Place it witnessed the past and the present of Hong Kong people in the recent 50 years. We think that the government must take the responsibility of our urban development. It shouldn't be like the past which always demolished and reclaimed. • 8. Wide pan of public forum • 9. Wide of the public forum stage • 10. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor, Secretary for Development: • In the beginning of the year 2000, we were saying we hoped to have the Central - Wan Chai Bypass completed by 2009 to solve the traffic congestion in Central and Wan Chai. In fact today we are already suffering from traffic congestion deeply. The roads start to get crowded. However with the most optimistic estimates today, Central - Wan Chai bypass - because of the recent disputes - can only be completed in 2016 at the soonest. • 11. Cutaway of audience speaking • 12. A protester writing banners with his blood • 13. Close-up of protester writing with his blood • 14. Pan from Victoria Harbour to Queen's Pier • 15. SOUNDBITE: (Cantonese) Freddie Hai Tuen Tai, architect: • Actually, from an architectural engineering perspective, there are some other proposals which can be considered. But until the current stage, the message we have had is that things decided cannot be altered, owing to some public administrative reason, rather than any unsolvable technical reasons. • 16. Some visitors taking pictures of Queen's Pier • 17. Newspaper cuttings about Hollywood star Chow Yun-fat in Queen's Pier • 18. Close-up of newspaper cuttings about Hollywood star Chow Yun-fat in Queen's Pier • File - Hong Kong, 1997 • 19. Chris Patten, the former British governor of Hong Kong, arriving at Queen's Pier • 20. Close-up of Chris Patten • 21. Wide of Chris Patten inspecting uniformed force • STORYLINE • Protesters on a hunger strike continued their camp out on Sunday at a historic Hong Kong pier threatened with demolition. • Their protest is an attempt to rescue what they consider to be one of the last remnants of the territory's waterfront past - the Queen's pier - from redevelopment. • They and several other protestors have been camped out at the pier since 26 April. • Twenty-five-year-old Chan King-fai said the pier's conservation had high historical value. • Queen's Pier is architecture with high historical value. It, along with City Hall and Edinburgh Place, has witnessed the past and the present of Hong Kong's people for the last 50 years. We think that the government must take responsibility for our urban development. It shouldn't continue demolitions and reclamations in the past. Chan said. • But a government official said on Sunday that the removal of Queen's Pier was unavoidable. • Plans are to demolish the pier to make way for a new road to soothe traffic congestion in Hong Kong's Central district. • The government was to have handed over the Queen's Pier site to contractors in February this year for work to begin. • During the British colonial era, the pier welcomed British royal family onshore, including the Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and the late Princess of Wales. • In April, it was officially closed for work to begin. • The demolition of the pier is scheduled by the end of this month. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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