Financial agreement reached on HK-Zhuhai-Macao link

GUANGZHOU: Construction of the long-awaited Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge will begin no later than 2010, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said yesterday.

"The governments of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have made a breakthrough in the financing of the bridge. We think the new financial scheme we have laid out will greatly help accelerate its construction," he said.

He was attending the 11th Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Cooperation Conference in Guangzhou yesterday.