Potential locations for an extra public market in Tin Shui Wai are raised as the government’s plan for the long-anticipated public market is slammed for failing to cater everyone’s need. For years, politicians and various organisations have been asking for a public market in Tin Shui Wai as the price in the privately-owned markets in […]
A Battle Against Fast Fashion: Sewing Sustainability into What We Wear
How fast can you enjoy the vogue of fashion? By record in 2015, the Spanish fast-fashion pioneer Zara crowned to be the “fastest” from design to store—all in 25 days. In the business world, conventional wisdom is that speed wins in every competition. From designing on papers to shelving in stores, fast fashion industry […]
Treasure hunt in Hong Kong’s mountains
Lo Kin-man (盧建民) is an ordinary citizen in Hong Kong who hikes every weekend. Having discovered trash all over the place on the way up the hills, he decided to clean up the mountains on his own. The government mainly relies on education and the removal of trash bins as means to alleviate the problem […]
Fading local history preserved in century-old school
After passing through the green corridor with trees lining on both sides greeting incoming visitors in Tung Tau Wan Road, Stanley, you will find a junction hiding amongst the green. Surprising to many, the branch road is the entrance of a local school, St. Stephen’s College, which occupies over 15 hectares of space in the […]
Hundreds to pay tributes to fallen soldiers at the Cenotaph
The weather fitted the sadness of the atmosphere as hundreds gathered at the Cenotaph war memorial in Central last Sunday for the Remembrance Day Ceremony in remembrance of the fallen soldiers in the two World Wars. The Cenotaph, situated between Statue Square and the City Hall, was constructed in 1923 as being almost an exact […]