Hugh Farmer: The Index has been updated. If you would like to add to existing articles please add a comment. If you would like to write at greater length on a subject, new or old, or self-contribute, feel free to contact me:- indhhk(blah)gmail.com A number of personalities have been added to the index in the last month including those mentioned […]
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Elizabeth Ride has sent a BAAG letter regarding sending money to HK company employees held as prisoners and internees during the Japanese occupation. Elizabeth says the background to this scheme was that the BAAG had earlier found that certain HK firms with representatives caught in HK were able to send funds to them via the Red Cross in Macao. For […]
» Read moreElizabeth Ride has sent this BAAG report. HF: The “200 men are now employed there”, suggests the two mines are at the same location. However, Ng Tung Shan appears to be in Shenzhen, China. And Ling Ma Hang is very close to the border but in Hong Kong. Can anyone help clarify this report? Related Indhhk articles: Lin Ma Hang […]
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Happy Christmas to you. And for the passers-by in Wanchai yesterday. HKD15 million gone in minutes after a security van spills bundles of cash on to Gloucester Road. At least until Asia’s finest getting working on the CCTV pictures. Thanks to Yannis Baritakis for sending me the article. SCMP article Related Indhhk article: The Hong Kong Mint, 1866-1868
» Read moreHF: This is shown in our article, Quarries in Hong Kong – a list I added it to the list but I have no idea where I saw it mentioned. Can anyone supply further information about it? And why was it a “Government” quarry?
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HF: The SCMP of 12th December 2014 contained a full page article, Bazaar Behaviour. This outlines the decline in the number of hawkers markets and discusses the view that “public policy over the years has served to concentrate retail activity in sanitised malls.” The article mentions:- – there were about 40 such bazaars in the 1970s. – that the number […]
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Tymon Mellor’s article, Sha Lo Wan Mine, says “In 1954 the Far Eastern Prospecting And Development Corporation Limited was formed and took over the mining license. They established a facility and started large scale working that were active until the 1960’s. The company was dissolved in 1979.” And the book Hong Kong Landscapes: Shaping the Barren Rock, Bernie Owen and Raynor […]
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Elizabeth Ride has sent this BAAG report about Chun Hing Oil. HF: There is a contemporary Kwan Yick Building at 430-440A Des Voeux Rd West in Shek Tong Tsui which is the area immediately east of Kennedy Town. And a contemporary company, Chun Hing Petro-chemical Ltd, whose address is given as Fu Yung Building, Tsuen Wan. BAAG Report WIS #28 25.4.43 […]
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CM Fung has sent an extract of the book, Hong Kong Trams: Hongkong Tramway: 100 Years by Mike Davis. The Publisher’s website says the book is no longer available in bookshops but CM says it is available in a number of Hong Kong public libraries. These sections covered are: Initial proposals The Tramway route Tram services and termini Rolling stock […]
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