HKFP Lens: Revisiting Hong Kong’s old railways at the MTR’s new exhibition

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP— To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the MTR Corporation is launching an exhibition, “Station Rail Voyage,” which showcases retired trains and over 100 railway artifacts at Hung Hom Station. Running from next Wednesday to the end of the year, the exhibition presents retired trains including the “Yellow Head,” a locomotive which marked the start of the […]

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP—Hong Kong’s decades-old President Theatre to close on Tuesday. President Theatre in Hong Kong has announced it will shut down on Tuesday, after operating in the city for more than half a century. The announcement came less than a week after another local cinema went out of business. Newport Circuit announced on Facebook last Saturday that President Theatre, which opened in October 1966, will […]

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP—Hong Kong’s environment bureau says it’s not partaking in gov’t waste tax trial because of how its trash is collected. Hong Kong’s Environment and Ecology Bureau is not participating in a trial of the city’s waste charging scheme, saying that the way rubbish was collected from its location in the Central Government Offices made it “not a suitable location.” First suggested by the government in 2005 before becoming law in 2021, the waste charging scheme […]

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