Thirty-one pet owning families feature in Mihaela Tudor’s Collective Portraits of South Lantau Pet Owners. In putting the collection together Mihaela, a professional photographer based in Mui Wo, says she was inspired by the beauty of Hong Kong’s natural landscape and its people – and the fact that every other family in Lantau has a pet. “I have been lucky enough to spend the pandemic in a happy bubble, in Hong Kong’s countryside, a place… Read More »COLLECTIVE PORTRAITS
Congratulations are in order for the Lantau Cricket Club (LCC) U11 team who won the Cricket Hong Kong U11 Junior League Championship on April 24. The LCC U13s also had a great season, making it to the finals on May 23. The LCC is the home of The Buffalos – children aged six years and up train year-round in Tung Chung on Friday afternoons, and the club has a kids’ cricket camp planned for the… Read More »LANTAU CRICKET CLUB: U11S
GREEN @ COMMUNITY stores have been popping up across Hong Kong, and you’ll now find one in the Silver Centre Building in Mui Wo. GREEN @ MUI WO is open daily from 9am to 7pm, and it takes in eight types of recyclables including papers, metals, plastics, glass bottles, regulated electrical equipment, small electrical appliances, rechargeable batteries and fluorescent lamps and tubes. You can even drop your recyclables at night, through a mailer box located… Read More »GREEN@ MUI WO
Reporting by Elizabeth JerabekPhotos by Martina Yu & courtesy of Aggie Lam The newly published non-profit ‘photo book’ Dear Hong Kong seeks to increase social awareness of diversity and inclusion through interviews with 80 talented Hongkongers from around the globe. Not surprisingly, perhaps, 11-year-old Lance Lau, the Tung Chung resident, who has been striking for climate change since September 2019, is one of the high-profile influencers featured. Dear Hong Kong co-founders Oskar Valles and Aggie… Read More »TALES OF THE CITY
Fitness in Motion is now offering a full range of martial arts, mobility and fitness classes out of its brand-new studio in Tung Chung. “Getting fit isn’t just about losing weight,” says founder Maxim Minin. “For most people, there’s a lot more to it than simply dropping pounds and many reasons beyond vanity why it might be important. We work with clients from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom want to get fit because… Read More »FITNESS IN MOTION