Lantau News

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 [...]

New double-decker bus to run on 3M route from Q3

April 15, 2018 // 0 Comments

This is the new double-decker bus that will run between Tung Chung and Mui Wo, starting in the third quarter. New Lantao Bus Co (NLB), which released the photo this week, [...]

Fix North Lantau traffic chaos before bridge opens, says Holden Chow

April 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

After another morning of chaos on North Lantau Highway, Legco member Holden Chow has called on the government to tackle congestion before the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge [...]

Ding Ding Gallery opens in Mui Wo

April 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

Mui Wo now has a small exhibition space – Ding Ding Art Gallery at Caffe Paradiso. Tom Midgley, owner of the popular coffee shop, says it is open to anyone in the [...]

Man dies in fall from Yat Tung tower

April 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

A 69-year-old man died in a fall from a Yat Tung residential block yesterday. A security guard reported a man’s body was found outside one of the tower blocks at 3pm [...]

Dump body on Lantau, body-in-cement witness suggested

April 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

Lantau has entered Hong Kong’s body-in-cement court case, with the court hearing that a witness had suggested using Lantau as a place to dump a body. Ho Ling-yu, the [...]