Will Beijing earn Unesco World Heritage listing for much changed old city?
Will Beijing earn Unesco World Heritage listing for much changed old city?
  • Using a Western interpretation of a 2,400-year-old document, Beijing seeks Unesco’s stamp for a line of monuments, many badly restored or entirely rebuilt
26 Jun 2023 - 2:50PM
Visitors look at a laser performance in front of the Yongdingmen, or central south gate, in Beijing, rebuilt in 2003. The city is seeking Unesco World Heritage status for a large area of its former imperial inner city, including this gate. Photo: Getty Images
Architecture and design

Will Beijing earn Unesco World Heritage listing for much changed old city?

26 Jun 2023 - 2:50PM
  • Using a Western interpretation of a 2,400-year-old document, Beijing seeks Unesco’s stamp for a line of monuments, many badly restored or entirely rebuilt
Elvis Leung Yiu-chi’s live-in lover, Wu Man-lung, leaves the Hong Kong High Court after testifying in the trial of Kwong Kwok-leung for Leung’s murder. Kwong was jailed for life for the crime and later committed suicide in his prison cell. Photo: SCMP

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Kwong Kok-leung would ‘jump at the sight of a cockroach’. Yet in 2001 he was jailed for life in Hong Kong for murdering Elvis Leung Yiu-chi over a money dispute. A year later, he was found hanged in his prison cell.

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