Winston Chu Ka-sun said while the current ordinance banning reclamation except in special circumstances offered some protection, the government would always be tempted to carry out further infill...
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17 Feb 2013
The museum, set up by private donors in 2004, moved last June from the ground floor of Murray House in Stanley to its new home - a prime four-deck waterfront location overlooking Victoria Harbour...
12 Feb 2013
The Year of the Snake hit the city with a bang last night with 4.5 tonnes of explosives fired off in the fireworks display above Victoria Harbour. About 340,000 people watched the fireworks at the...
8 Feb 2013
Christina North is proud to tell people not just that she was born in Hong Kong. She adds that she entered the world on a Star Ferry boat crossing Victoria Harbour.
28 Jan 2013
I think it is necessary for a statutory harbour authority, which will be able to plan, design and manage the waterfront, to be established in Hong Kong.
Blitz will not deter parallel trading tide
The arrest of 90 people "on suspicion of parallel trading" will do very little to ease the nightmare at the border as more mainlanders are lured...
Hong Kong is an architects' playground. Against a backdrop of steep hills and framing the city's crown jewel that is Victoria Harbour stand impossibly tall structures, packed as tightly as trees...
There is no question that the people of Hong Kong own Victoria Harbour. The Protection of the Harbour Ordinance makes that clear. But it has never been clear who is ultimately responsible for...
On the chief executive's threat to punish developers who hoard flats:
Victoria Harbour has been snubbed as a potential Unesco World Heritage site by Hong Kong government officials, who instead favour the nomination of the Chi Lin nunnery in Diamond Hill rebuilt in...
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The tram tracks once ran along Hong Kong Island's shoreline and where Tsim Sha Tsui's row of seafront hotels now lies, was the landmark shipping terminal "Blue Funnel", where sampans and tugboats...
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