Lam Tsuen

Ecologists voice fears over planned housing in Tai Po

13 May 2013

The plan to build 267 three-storey houses met with opposition from green groups that said about five hectares of the site in She Shan Village in Lam Tsuen was buried under waste. They feared...

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Home prices weigh heavily for couple at Wishing Square

13 Feb 2013

Among the thousands of people who flocked to Fong Ma Po village in Tai Po on Tuesday to make their new year wishes were William Ko and his girlfriend. The couple, who are getting married next...

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First two babies of 2012 arrive neck-and-neck

2 Jan 2012

Hong Kong's first two New Year babies arrived at the same time yesterday - just six minutes after the start of 2012.

But the births were both a bit of a surprise, with one sooner...

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Wishful thinking

11 Feb 2011

With a jump, a stretch and a toss, people aim plastic oranges bearing their wishes at the dense foliage of the artificial wishing tree in Lam Tsuen Wishing Square.

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Hong Kong Well-wishing Festival

10 Feb 2011

Feb 11-17, 10am-10pm,
Lam Tsuen Wishing Square

8:32AM

Native newts netted ahead of flood works

10 Nov 2010

Normally, anyone caught catching the rare Hong Kong newt is liable to jail, but not workers who have been catching the protected amphibian in Tai Po in the past few days.

The...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Thursday Think-tank

Five things we're all wondering about

1 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's daughter studying in Hong Kong under an alias ... She deflected attention by posing as the girlfriend of...

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Festive feast

Old friends (top) tuck into the 'Ten Thousand Poon Choi Banquet' yesterday during the once-a-decade Tai Ping Ching Jiu festival at the Tai Po village of Lam Tsuen, the home of the Wishing Tree...

4:25AM

All roads lead to Lam Tsuen for festival

Locals and villagers living overseas have flocked to Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, home of the famed wishing tree for a once-in-a-decade event featuring opera singing, lion dances, festive food and a daily...

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Tai Po village set to celebrate once-in-a-decade religious rite

Lam Tsuen in Tai Po - home of the famous 11-metre-tall banyan 'wishing tree' - will celebrate a once-in-a-decade religious festival this week.

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Boss found stabbed to death in office toilet

A homicide investigation was launched yesterday after a 46-year-old man was found stabbed to death in an Aberdeen toilet.

5:29AM

Hong Kong's trees in the flashlight

The winning works of a photography competition organised by CLP revealed a close bond between young people and nature.

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