A 58-year-old man has pleaded guilty to one count of bestiality with a dog near Tung Chung.
Chung Lin-fai, a former welder, admitted that he had used a piece of bread to entice a two-year-old female dog to a stream near Wong Lung Hang Rd, Tung Chung on February 1. Continue reading
Tung Chung’s secondary real estate market is heating up. Transactions doubled last month, with one Seaview Crescent apartment becoming the first to fetch HK$10 million.
With such brisk demand – more than 80 sales took place in March – most owners raised their prices. The average price in the Caribbean Coast, to give an example, increased by 5% to HK$9650 per sq foot.
A decapitated dolphin was discovered on a Lantau beach this week, just days after dolphin meat was found on sale at a Zhuhai market.
A local resident, Ms Ho, found the body on the beach behind the Heung Yee Kuk school in Mui Wo and contacted 1823, HKET reported Monday. Another dolphin carcass had been discovered on the beach several months ago. Continue reading
Red, blue and green Hong Kong taxi fares will rise on Sunday.
For Lantau cabs, flagfall will increase to HK$19 from HK$17, and every 200m will be charged at $1.5, up from HK$1.4 currently.
Flagfall for red cabs will rise to HK$24.
The more details on Lantau fares, see this Transport Department conversion chart.
Is it a public consultation when the public is not invited?
Local residents and NGOs are still fuming over their exclusion from a public consultation on Hong Kong long-term development plans – the latest in a series of steps that appear to be aimed at limiting criticism of the East Lantau Metropolis (ELM) project.
Randy Yu (fifth from right), rural committee leaders and officials at the March 22 forum
The plan to build an new retail, commercial and housing hub on 1000 hectares of sea reclamation off Lantau, with MTR and freeway links between Mui Wo and Central, could cost as much as HK$400 billion.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang laid down the law on independence at the National People’s Congress early this month. Independence for Hong Kong will “lead nowhere,” he fulminated in his annual work report.
But what about that time when the Communist Party declared independence from China? Continue reading
Police have found missing Thai woman Pornthip Sathienjarukarn.
The 49-year-old woman, who was visiting Hong Kong, was last seen near Mui Wo market on the morning of February 9.
Lantau police say she has been located safe and unharmed in Kowloon City. She is currently being looked after local police. She will be interviewed by the with Immigration Department and Thai Consulate and then returned to Thailand.
Yet another engineering failure, resulting in a massive mud spill, has been revealed at the scandal-plagued Hong Kong Zhuhai Macau Bridge (HZMB).
The Highways Dept only yesterday acknowledged the collapse, at the southeast end of Chek Lap Kok, more than two years after the event.
Newspaper HK01 reported Monday that the failure released tonnes of mud into Tung Chung Bay, creating a brown slick. It published satellite photos from Google and the Lands Dept showing the discoloured water.
The paper and Civic Party law-makers have accused the Highways Dept of covering up the accident, the latest in a series of incidents in the HK$130 billion project. Continue reading
The Town Planning Board is weighing an application for a caravan park already in operation in Cheung Sha.
A company called Well Power Investment Development Ltd has sought permission to place nine caravans on former Palm Beach site for three years and to build supporting facilities including a toilet, a storage area and a kiosk.
The site covers 3,016 square metres, of which 85% is designated Coastal Protection Area (CPA)., and applies to lots 62, 63, 64, 65, 66 S.B, 66 RP and 67 in D.D.331. The remainder is government land.
One of the directors of the company is Chan Shekmou, an indigenous resident of South Lantau, according to a company registry search by Apple Daily. It says the caravans will be placed on stone and will not impact on the vegetation and argues that the proposal is consistent with the government’s ambitions to make South Lantau a tourist zone.
If approved, it would not be the first caravan park in South Lantau. A site in Tong Fuk with six caravans has been operating since 2014.
Hong Kong government’s has been been identifying sites as Coastal Protection Areas since the early 1980s in order to preserve sensitive environment and natural coastlines.
However, outside the Town Planning Ordinance, protection for CPA-designated sites is not enforced.
The Town Planning Board has set a tentative date of April 7 to discuss the application. Deadline for comments is March 10.
Hong Kong police have appealed to the public for information about a Thai woman missing in Lantau since February 9.
The woman, Pornthip Sathienjarukarn, 49, came to Hong Kong as a tourist on January 21. She was due to fly home on February 4, but was last seen outside Mui Wo market on the morning of February 9.
After initial inquiries the police believe the case is not suspicious and have handed the case to Missing Persons Unit.
Ms Sathienjarukarn, who is reportedly in an emotionally fragile condition, is about 1.6 metres tall and of medium build. She has a square face with yellow complexion, short black hair and a red birthmark on her chin. She was last seen wearing a beige windbreaker and a pair of slippers.
Anyone who knows the whereabouts of the missing woman or may have seen her is urged to contact the Regional Crime Unit of New Territories South on 3661 1223 or 6277 5336 or email to crm-nts-rcu-2b-office@police.gov.hk, or contact any police station.
UPDATE FEB 21, 1PM: Lantau police advise Ms Sathienjarukarn is still missing. They are still searching for her on South Lantau but have no reason to believe she is still here. The case is now in the hands of Regional Crime Unit.
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