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A jade necklace said to be worth about HK$22 million (US$2.8 million) was stolen in a brazen robbery at a jewellery store in Hong Kong’s busy Tsim Sha Tsui shopping district on Monday, sparking a citywide police search for at least three suspects.
Hawker turned property tycoon called the ‘queen of Hong Kong harbour’, Old Mary, gets musical tribute Hong Kong hawker turned property and factory owner Old Mary, who was born in China in 1870. Her descendants think this was taken on the day of the visit of Britain’s Princess Margaret to her store in Nathan Road, Kowloon, in 1966. Many years ago, as a child, Stephen Au Kam-tong encountered a woman called Old Mary. On a recent afternoon in his studio in Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon, the actor, writer and director describes their subsequent relationship. A few polystyrene rocks are scattered on...
地方中心／台中報導 台中市政府積極推動都市河岸人行道美化作業，為台中各角落注入工程美學種子，建設局日前成功於北區麻園橋（北平路與華美西街路口）旁人行橋，導入台中人行橋首幅3D立體彩繪作品，以「水中生物」衝出水面及空中吊橋圖騰設計，營造活潑生動的俏皮氛圍，同時活化整體人行空間、豐富城市街道，讓經過的用路人眼睛為之一亮。 建設局長陳大田指出，此人行橋於108年7月完工啟用，單側長20公尺、寬7.3公尺，因周邊鄰近住宅...
Rebels at the Gate By Robert Neff In the summer of 1894, the community of Westerners residing in Seoul were greatly alarmed ― not of the on-going Sino-Japanese War but because of the growing insurrection and unrest spreading throughout the southern part of the peninsula which threatened to spread to Seoul and endanger their lives. On September 17, 1894, Sallie (the wife of the American ambassador to Korea, John Sill) wrote in her journal-letter that on the "night before last the rumor was rife that all the missionaries in Seoul were to be massacred." It wasn't the first time a massacre of ...