Sinopec has established a HK$10-million fund to assist green groups in cleaning up the millions of plastic pellets from a container ship that have been washed ashore on local beaches and fish farms.

Legislative councillor Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee has slammed opposition parties for playing what she called the "core value card" in the current election, to create an impression of crossborder tensions between Hong Kong and the mainland.

Environment groups pressed the government on Thursday to place two ecologically sensitive areas of the New Territories into a planned nature conserve. The two land parcels are Long Valley and the north agricultural zone of that area.