The validity of a public poll on the West Kowloon Project is called into question. Included in the article is a brief timeline of the West Kowloon Cultural District Project from its orgins in 1998 to the projected year of 2007 when a statutory body is to begin work on the West Kowloon Project. The government commissioned a public poll of 13 questions with 3 choices (bidders) that the article calls comment cards. 4,176 of 33,416 comment cards were suspiciously similar (identical envelopes or mailing labels with similar responses), causing Henderson Land to question the credibility of public polling; ninety percent of these suspect cards favored the plans of one bidder, which was the clear favorite in the polling overall. A separate telephone poll showed 61 percent supported building a cultural district while 10 percent opposed it, and 51 percent favored the construction of the debated canopy.
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Felix CHAN, 
English
cultural policy,  Hong Kong
8 Oct 2005
South China Morning Post, 8 Oct 2005, p. A3
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