Shek O

Shek O, meaning rocky bay, is characterised by two beaches and a 701-hectare country park, all of which are situated on the south eastern coast of Hong Kong Island. Its northern beach - Big Wave Bay - is popular with surfers and is home to a prehistoric rock carving depicting geometric designs and animals. The south beach, called Shek O, is popular with swimmers and water sport enthusiasts.

PROPERTY DIGEST

Property Digest, January 30, 2013

30 Jan 2013

Tomson Group announced it had agreed to acquire two sites, with a total site area of 450,460.8 square metres, in Shanghai's Pudong for a total of 1.09 billion yuan (HK$1.34 billion).

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Paraglider takes off on Dragon's Back trail in Hong Kong (video)

27 Jan 2013

A paraglider takes off from the Dragon's Back trail near Shek O in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon. The spot is known for high-flying enthusiasts, and the weather conditions - at 17 degrees, and...

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Briefs, January 20, 2013

20 Jan 2013

HK$4.4m of silver seized at checkpoint

Customs seized 515kg of smuggled silver valued at HK$4.42 million on Friday from a private car entering the city via the Western Corridor border post...

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Fellow pupils of Shek O drowning victims to get grief counselling

3 Oct 2012

A school attended by two teenage boys who drowned at Shek O while celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival was in "crisis mode" yesterday dealing with pupils' grief after the second boy's body was...

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Teenager drowns off Shek O beach, second missing

1 Oct 2012

Police and firemen were searching for the missing body of a 16-year-old boy in the water off Shek O beach early Monday evening after recovering the body of a 15-year-old boy in the afternoon and...

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Letters

27 May 2012

Rare Hakka village must be protected

I read with great interest Hazel Knowles's article in the Sunday Magazine about Pak Sha O ('Plots on the landscape', May 20), a village I am very...

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Opinion

Hari Kumar

Workers pay the price for our bargains

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Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

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Hordes of posing couples have picturesque Shek O singing wedding bell blues

There is nothing like a good wedding, but the trend in recent years for happy couples to have their photographs taken in idyllic Shek O has worn a bit thin for some living there.

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Swastikas remain despite complaint

Villagers in Shek O have complained that despite informing New World First Bus Services about Nazi graffiti on the wall of the village's bus terminus nearly three weeks ago, nothing is being done...

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Officials unwilling to compromise over seats and eateries at city's beaches

The article ('Sun goes down early on beach food kiosks', November 28) implies that standardised furniture is being introduced due to noise complaints, but this is not the case.

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One set of tycoon's gates down, but five still to go

Only two of six tycoons found to have encroached on public land by erecting gates leading to their luxury houses have complied with orders to remove them or expressed willingness to do so.

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Tycoons taken to task over 'private' roads

Wharf (Holdings) chairman Peter Woo Kwong-ching reopened roads in front of his two luxury Shek O homes after concerns that he and other tycoons encroached on public land by erecting gates on...

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Seventh arrest made in Big Wave Bay murder

A 49-year-old man was arrested yesterday in connection with a killing at Big Wave Bay, near Shek O, on Saturday night. He is the seventh person arrested in the case.

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