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HONG KONG, March 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST:
- The number of flats completed last year fell to the lowest level since the handover, and completions of grade-A offices hit a 36-year low.
- The Executive Council yesterday endorsed a draft bill on covert surveillance that will require the authorities to inform "some but not all" of the targets of phone taps and covert surveillance once an operation is over.
- Village houses in the New Territories are about to go up - by a couple of storeys. The government is considering scrapping its three-storey policy, and is introducing a pilot scheme.
THE STANDARD:
- The Hong Kong government insists there's no shortage of private flats on the horizon, despite its forecast that flat completions will remain at post-1997 lows for the next two years.
Source: HighBeam Research, HONG KONG NEWSPAPER HIGHLIGHTS - MARCH 1, 2006.