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If you’ve been along Chi Ma Wan Road in Pui Wo, you’ve surely noticed a big, grubby white building just east of the playground at the junction with the road to the beach. It’s like a chunky rectangular block, with…
Email to director of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, after multiple correspondence with other FEHD officials failed to achieve progress on issue of over zealous use of pesticides versus mosquitoes killing considerable other wildlife: I’m a birdwatcher living on…
Siberian House Martin (Delichon lagopodum) and Asian House Martin (Delichon dasypus), Pui O, Lantau, 25 October 2025 Siberian has clean white underparts – rather than sullied with grey, big white rump patch, near uniform underwing (not darker secondaries ie forewing),…
Occasionally, typhoons have caused immense damage and loss of life in Hong Kong; the worst effects arise from storm surges, which are somewhat akin to tsunamis accompanied by mighty waves; see Hong Kong Typhoons including Calamitous Storm Surges. But also,…
On 18 September 2025, the system that became Super Typhoon Ragasa developed into a tropical depression; it then rapidly intensified to the east of Luzon, before passing through the Luzon Strait and heading towards the Guangdong coast – looking set…
Even before it really formed, there were forecasts indicating Typhoon Ragasa – as it is now known internationally – would be powerful and could threaten Hong Kong. This remains the case; and here, some updates as Super Typhoon Ragasa approaches…
When collecting a new bicycle from Decathlon in Tai Koo Shing, I figured it might be interesting and some fun to try cycling along the waterfront to the Central Ferry Piers [then, ferry to Cheung Chau]. Well, it turned out…
Dear AFCD, I am writing to submit my views on the updating of the city’s BSAP (Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan) for 2025-2035. Lantau: need positive projects for lowlands, especially pui o wetlands [way beyond simply struggling to stop small…
Can but try, I figured, after seeing government is open to comments for the forthcoming policy address by Chief Executive John Lee:
