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 Yao Yiwen "Greatest cities have the capability of providing something for
everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody."
-- Jane Jacobs
Located
in the heart of Kowloon, Mongkok captures the extreme urban density and
neon nightscape of the city with a diverse overla... |
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 Lu Lu Under the Gaze of "Queen Victoria"
Next to the busy district of Causeway Bay, in front of the Hong Kong Central Library, is Victoria Park, so called because of the statue of Queen Victoria that sits at its southern entrance contemplating the wal... |
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Liu Yiyu
"Be it boom or bust, we have to live." - Lok Yau Fa
Lok Yau Fa, known to his friends and associates as "Brother Fa," was born near Temple Street. As a boy he lived on the street. He was the cameraman of many well-known Hong Kong movies. He was the driver who famous... |
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 Li Tao
The debate over the future of Hong Kong's "Sneaker Street" has lasted more than 10 years. The government wants to redevelop the run-down area around Fa Yuen, Sai Yee and Nelson Streets, Mongkok, famous for its dozens of small shops selling a vast variety of sneakers, but also ... |
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 Shen Yihui There are no towering skyscrapers, no well-dressed white collar workers, no grand shopping malls. Apliu Street is lined with small stores and rickety hawker stalls. It is a place where frugality rules, bargaining is rife and old Hong Kong's renowned entrepreneurial flair flourishes at street lev... |
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 Fu Yiwen The Mountains are steep, The Oceans are deep,
Earth is wide, Heaven is high,
Men’s dignity, Soul have we.
Wide world broadens our mind,
Age ripens our fruit.
Cherish, cherish, it’s our spirit of New Asia!
-- New Asia College Anthem
Mr Lit Hong Fie climbs the stairs of... |
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 Shi Fenglei
At eight o'clock in the evening, Sakina Mok closes her flower shop, one hour earlier than months ago, leaving in the darkness an account book suggesting another day of dull sale and an ocean of languishing flowers.
Sakina's family has been running flower shops in Hong Kong's lar... |
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The sound of children playing outside on a Sunday afternoon on Lamma Island. A young boy, Max, celebrates his third birthday party with... |
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 Tsang Sze Man Living but dying--that is the situation of wet markets in Hong Kong. According to the web site of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department , there are currently 80 public markets under the HKSAR government. These markets are indeed in dead ends. Vendors of the wet markets know their situations ... |
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