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 [...]
Local politics
Eddie Chu: Pan-dems, greens must target village elections
Legco member and rural land justice campaigner Eddie Chu has called on democrats and environmentalists to contest the coming 2019 village elections. Speaking at a Living [...]
Lantau residents, NGOs seethe over stacked consultation
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 [...]
Election ’16: The rural party line
More roads for Lantau, relocation of cattle, improved sewerage works, expansion of Mui Wo tourism. If those seem familiar they should. They are the demands of South Lantau [...]
A couple more for the banner collection
For the record, a couple more banners next to the Mui Wo ferry pier. Resident Ben Sargent commented on my earlier piece that banners calling for the redevelopment of Chi Ma [...]
Anonymous banners getting govt message out on Lantau development
A series of banners promoting the government’s ‘develop Lantau’ message have popped up all over South Lantau in the last three days. The unusual feature [...]
Lantau’s rising political star
Lantau has never bred a major political leader, but Holden Chow, a rising star in the pro-Beijing camp, could be the first. The 37-year-old DAB vice-chairman, who was [...]
Election wash-up: Occupy was an issue, but not on Lantau
Randy Yu earned himself a profile in the SCMP last week in the wake of his Lantau election victory. It was the kind of flattering story on a pro-government figure that the [...]
Poll result shows it’s time to pause Lantau ‘development’
The Islands District Council result yesterday reflected Hong Kong as a whole; the pro-government and pan-Dem forces basically fought a draw. Each gained and lost a seat. [...]
In photos, the excitement of election day 2015
As of 3.30pm, just under 23% of Islands district voters, or 60,877 people, had cast their vote. Here’s how the election has unfolded so [...]
