Lantau News

Govt HK$550m Lantau Tomorrow funding request goes to Legco on Friday

June 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

As if Hong Kong politics were not combustible enough: the contentious Lantau reclamation project is back. The HK$624 billion scheme to build a new CBD on reclaimed land near [...]

Govt calls tender for fast(ish) broadband across rural Hong Kong

June 17, 2019 // 0 Comments

The Hong Kong government has issued tenders for its scheme to subsidise construction of high-speed internet to rural Hong Kong villages. The project aims to build fibre [...]

RIP Billy, Lantau’s favourite cow

November 24, 2018 // 1 Comment

South Lantau is today mourning the loss of Billy, the beloved cow who ran with a buffalo herd and became friendly, perhaps too friendly, with visitors. Billy was found dead [...]

Hong Kong wetlands face ‘significant’ threat after court ruling: LIM

September 14, 2018 // 0 Comments

Hong Kong’s remaining wetland areas are under threat after a High Court has ruled the government cannot prevent landowners from dumping rubbish on wetland sites, green [...]

Police seize $600,000 in ivory, cough syrup near Sha Lo Wan

April 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

Police and customs officers seized a small boat and smuggled goods worth HK$600,000 in an operation off Sha Lo Wan yesterday. In a joint operation they spotted a speedboat [...]

Luk Tei Tong villagers to protest today against ‘illegal’ columbarium

April 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

Luk Tei Tong villagers will hold a protest this afternoon over construction of a private columbarium inside a local temple. They say the columbarium would breach land use [...]

Man dies after fall from Kap Shui Mun Bridge

April 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

A 63-year-old taxi passenger has died after jumping over the side of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge early this morning. The cab was approaching the Lantau Link toll plaza at about [...]

Shui Hau tops the list as govt hands out $9m for Lantau conservation education

April 20, 2018 // 1 Comment

Shui Hau’s rich and fragile ecosystem has attracted the biggest share of funds under the government’s new Lantau environmental education scheme. Two proposals, from WWF [...]

Brazen thieves waltzed past CCTV to burgle Cheung Sha home last night

April 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

This thief got away with HK$2,000 in cash in a brazen robbery at Cheung Sha last night. He was one of a pair that raided a home at Golden Coast just after midnight while [...]

Govt to issue tenders for remote Lantau broadband

April 16, 2018 // 1 Comment

The Hong Kong government will issue tenders for the construction of fibre links to 45 Lantau villages – part of a new scheme to provide faster rural internet across [...]