New Islands team to challenge for district council seats
A new team has formed to compete for Islands District Council seats at the coming November 24 election. The environmentally-friendly grouping, Islands Connection [...]
Local Politics
Randy Yu calls for double-decker bus review in wake of Tai Po crash
District Council vice chair Randy Yu has called on the Transport Department to review the safety of double-decker buses on Lantau roads before they are introduced later this [...]
Amy Yung demands answers on lack of consultation over council expansion
Islands District Councillor Amy Yung has called on council chairman Chow Yuk-tong and the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau to explain why the council will not add [...]
Protestors dump Lantau waste at Govt House, warn of further action
Demonstrators dumped construction waste outside Carrie Lam’s residence today to protest landfilling and wetland destruction, with Legco member Eddie Chu warning of [...]
Tung Chung’s new public market won’t open until at least 2023
The government has rebuffed requests from district councillors to build a public market in central Tung Chung. Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) official have [...]
Police weigh more N. Lantau Highway patrols, but no cut in speed limit
Police say they will consider more frequent and more aggressive patrols on North Lantau freeway, but there are no plans lower the speed limit. Police and Transport Department [...]
Police arrest woman over District Councillor office fires
Lantau police have arrested a 40-year-old woman over suspected arson of the Tung Chung office of Islands District Councillor Bill Tang Ka-piu. Tang’s Yat Tung office [...]
(Photo) Rural committee celebrates holiday with military theme
Mui Wo Rural Committee has erected this military-themed billboard to celebrate the October 1 holiday. It announces an evening’s entertainment, though it doesn’t [...]
Calls to investigate ‘suspicious’ Mui Wo rural land deals
A Mui Wo village leader was directly involved in six village house transactions and connected to another three in the space of two years, prompting calls for the transactions [...]
CEDD wants your opinion even if Randy Yu doesn’t
Good news, non-Chinese residents of Lantau. The government thinks you’re worth talking to, even if our district councillor doesn’t. The Civil Engineering and [...]