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Secret plan to build public housing for up to 4000 on Mui Wo school site

September 29, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Hong Kong government is planning to build public housing for as many as 4000 people on the old Mui Wo high school site and the adjacent car park. The scheme appears [...]

Randy Yu’s wife accused of assaulting helper with hot iron: report

September 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Virginia Lau Yu-lin, the wife of Islands District Council chairman Randy Yu, is under investigation for allegedly assaulting her domestic helper with a hot iron. Lau, 55, the [...]

Have your say on Hong Kong: vote in this weekend’s democrat primary

July 7, 2020 // 0 Comments

Forget the security law: here comes the election – and you the voter can play your part. The 2020 Legco election is scheduled for September 6, with some democrat [...]

Pan-dems to reshape Islands council after stunning poll result

November 25, 2019 // 3 Comments

Pro-democratic candidates have dominated the Islands District Council poll to take seven of the ten elected seats. In the most high-profile victory the memorably-named Sheep [...]

Randy Yu defies democratic wave to retain Lantau seat

November 25, 2019 // 2 Comments

Randy Yu has hung on to his Islands District Council seat in the face of the massive democratic wave that swept Hong Kong yesterday. Fung Siuyin from the pro-democratic [...]

Election ’19: Randy Yu, the man for the status quo

November 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

If you’re looking for a politician to represent Hong Kong’s political moment you could hardly do worse than Randy Yu. A surveyor and property executive by occupation, [...]

Police called after campaign worker alleges assault in Tong Fuk

November 18, 2019 // 1 Comment

Police were called to Tong Fuk this evening after a canvasser for candidate Fung Siu Yin alleged she was assaulted by an unknown man. The woman, a Mui Wo resident who [...]

Election ’19: Fung Siu Yin, reform candidate

November 18, 2019 // 1 Comment

Fung Siu Yin is the challenger in Sunday’s district council poll and a part of a new face in local politics. Standing for the Lantau seat, she is pro-democratic, green [...]

Explainer: Island District Council election 2019

November 4, 2019 // 2 Comments

If Hong Kong leaders were trying to avoid controversy ahead of the District Council election, banning Joshua Wong was maybe not the way to go about it. The exclusion of the [...]

New Islands team to challenge for district council seats

August 17, 2019 // 3 Comments

A new team has formed to compete for Islands District Council seats at the coming November 24 election. The environmentally-friendly grouping, Islands Connection [...]