Hong Kong new airport delayed

It's been announced in Hong Kong that the opening of the city's new airport is being delayed by more than two months.

The territory's financial secretary, Donald Tsang, said it had been decided to postpone the opening until July because of delays in completing a railway link to the city centre and an air-cargo terminal.

Chek Lap Kok airport -- one of the biggest engineering projects in the world -- is being built on reclaimed land off an outlying island in the Hong Kong archipelago at a cost of about twenty-billion US dollars.

It was initially due to be completed last July, before Britain handed Hong Kong back to China, but disagreements between London and Beijing over the financing delayed the project.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service