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Citybus Route 20
Kowloon Urban Route No. 20 is a Hong Kong bus route operated by Citybus, plying between Kai Tak (Muk Ning Street) and Tai Kok Tsui (Island Harbourview). This route was introduced in April 2018 in conjunction with population intake in the Kai Tak Development. It is the first intra- Kowloon franchised bus route operated by Citybus, which obtained the right to operate this route through a tendering exercise. History Population growth in the Kai Tak Development Area, which was redeveloped from the former Hong Kong International Airport, resulted in increased travelling demand to and from the district. Transport Department thus proposed the introduction of three new bus route serving the new development in the ''Bus Route Planning Programme 2017-2018''. It was envisaged that the one serving between Kai Tak and Island Harbourview in Tai Kok Tsui would improve the linkage between the areas of Tai Kok Tsui, Yau Ma Tei, Argyle Street and Kai Tak. The Transport Department invited franc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citybus (Hong Kong)
Citybus Limited () is a bus company which provides both franchised and non-franchised service in Hong Kong. The franchised route network serves Hong Kong Island, cross-harbour routes (between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon/New Territories), North Lantau ( Tung Chung and Hong Kong Disneyland), Hong Kong International Airport, Kowloon, New Territories, Shenzhen Bay Port and Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge Hong Kong Port. The non-franchised routes serve mainly City One Sha Tin. It also provides bus rental services and staff bus services for some large companies such as TVB and China Light and Power. From 1984 to 2001 the company offered a cross-border service between Hong Kong and Mainland China using mainly Leyland Olympians, but this was discontinued due to stiff competition. However, in 2007, Citybus began operating route B3, which goes to Shenzhen Bay Port. Since August 2020, the company is wholly owned by Bravo Transport which also owns the third largest operator, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport Department
The Transport Department of the Government of Hong Kong is a department of the civil service responsible for transportation-related policy in Hong Kong. The department is under the Transport and Logistics Bureau. The Transport Department was created on 1 December 1968 as a separate department within the Hong Kong Government. Prior to 1968 it was assigned to the Transport Office under the Colonial Secretary's department. History The Transport Office was founded in 1965 within the Colonial Secretariat, initially with a staff of 23. The office was set up in response to the territory's worsening traffic problems, and was modelled after the systems in Britain and other Commonwealth countries, with the new department taking responsibility for vehicle registration and driver licensing. In 1968, it was spun off as a separate government department, and was renamed as the Transport Department. In 1974, the department's headquarters moved from the Blake Block on Queensway to the new Murr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tak Long Estate
Tak or TAK may refer to: Places * Dağdöşü or Tak, Azerbaijan, a village * Taq, Iran or Tak, a village * Tak province, Thailand ** Tak, Thailand, capital of the province Entertainment *'' Total Annihilation: Kingdoms'' or ''TA:K'' * Tak, title character of ''Tak and the Power of Juju'', a video game, and ''Tak and the Power of Juju'' (TV series) * Tak (Stephen King), a character in novels by King * Tak, a character in '' Invader Zim'' * Tak, a character from the novel '' Lord of Light'' by Roger Zelazny * ''Tak'' (game), an abstract strategy board game * TAK ensemble, a New York City-based contemporary chamber ensemble Transport * Takamatsu Airport's IATA code * Tallinna Autobussikoondis * Tai Koo station's station code in Hong Kong * Tatarstan Airlines's ICAO code People * Tak (surname), a Dutch, English, Indian, and Korean surname, including a list of people with the surname * Tak (given name), a list of people with the given name or nickname * Seomoon Tak, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Edward Road East
Prince Edward Road East and Prince Edward Road West are roads in Kowloon, Hong Kong, going in an east-west direction and linking Tai Kok Tsui, Mong Kok, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City and San Po Kong (outside the retired Kai Tak Airport). The roads were named after Prince Edward in 1922, later Edward VIII (later The Duke of Windsor), after his visit to Hong Kong. Prince Edward station and the Prince Edward area in Hong Kong are both named after Prince Edward Road, rather than Prince Edward himself. Prince Edward Road In the beginning of the 1920s, the Hong Kong government was developing the Mong Kok district and decided to build a road connecting this to Kowloon City. In April 1922, Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) came to Hong Kong and visited the construction of this road. Due to this visit, the government named this road Prince Edward Road. In the 1930s, Prince Edward Road was extended to the area of Ngau Chi Wan. During Japanese occupation, the road was renamed as Kashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwong Wah Hospital
Kwong Wah Hospital is a 1,141-bed Charitable district general hospital in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong. Located on 25 Waterloo Road, the hospital was founded by the Tung Wah Group in 1911, and managed by the Hospital Authority since 1991. It provides a full range of medical services to the population of West Kowloon and Wong Tai Sin. It is Kowloon West Cluster's major acute teaching hospital, and also a Neurosurgical and Antenatal Diagnosis referral centre. The Hospital has established various clinical centers, including Lai Kwok Wing Urology Centre, Minimally Invasive Surgery Training Centre and Chan Feng Men Ling Cardiac Centre. There are integrated Breast Centre and Dr Stephen Chow Chun-kay Assisted Reproduction Centre. It has established a Community Based Geriatric Service, Respiratory Care Unit, Acute Stroke Unit, TWGHs BOCHK Diabetes Centre, Wong Wha San Renal Memorial Centre, and a Nuclear Medicine site. Kwong Wah Hospital is also a pioneer in Integrative Chinese and Western M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yau Ma Tei Station
Yau Ma Tei, formerly named Waterloo after Waterloo Road, is an MTR station located in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon. It is served by the and the . The station opened on 22 December 1979 and was renamed as Yau Ma Tei on 31 May 1985 along with Argyle (Mong Kok) and Chater (Central). Yau Ma Tei is an interchange station, even though the platforms are not designed for cross-platform interchange. After the Kwun Tong line has been extended to , it is used by northbound passengers on one line to change to southbound trains on the other line. This station is used by many students during commuting hours, since it is in the vicinity of many large schools. The station's livery colour is a light grey. Red, white, and blue stripes, which is located prominently adorned the station walls until they were removed as part of renovation works in 2005 which also saw the original Helvetica typeface, used in station name signs, replaced by Myriad. History On 16 December 1979, Modified Initial System ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market
Fruit Market, also known as Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market and Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market, is a wholesale fruit market in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Etymology It is known as ''gwo laan'' () in Cantonese. ''gwo'' () means fruit while ''laan'' () means wholesale market, derived from railing and enclosed area. History The market was founded in 1913 between Ferry Street, Waterloo Road and Reclamation Street with Shek Lung Street passing through it. The name of the market was originally Government Vegetables Market () which sold fruit and vegetables. Fish traders joined in the 1930s. With the opening of Cheung Sha Wan Vegetables Wholesaling Market () and Cheung Sha Wan Fishery Wholesaling Market () in Cheung Sha Wan in 1965, the vegetables and fish stalls moved out. From then on the market has operated as a specialist fruit wholesaling market. The market was then officially known as Kowloon Wholesale Fruit Market until the name was transferred to Cheung Sha Wan Wholesal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympian City
Olympian City () is a shopping and residential complex built on reclaimed land in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, next to the MTR Olympic station. It is one of the main shopping and residential areas in West Kowloon. The shopping arcades, Olympian City 1, 2 and 3, were developed by Sino Land while the residential buildings were developed by MTR Corporation and Sino Land. Phases There were three phases in the development of the Olympian City project: *Phase I included Island Harbourview, HSBC Centre, Bank of China Centre and Olympian City 1, which were completed from 1998 to 2000. *Phase II included Park Avenue, Central Park and Olympian City 2, which were completed from 2000 to 2002. *Phase III included The Hermitage and Olympian City 3, which were completed in 2011. Note that the nearby development of Olympic Station Package 3 ( Harbour Green, developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties) was not part of the Olympian City project. Shopping arcades Olympian City 1 File ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic Station
Olympic is a station on the of Hong Kong's MTR. The livery is dodger blue. The station was originally named Tai Kok Tsui in proposals outlined by the government in the Airport Core Programme during the 1990s. In 1996, however, when Lee Lai-shan won the first ever Olympic gold medal of Hong Kong in windsurfing at the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics and two Hong Kong sportsmen, Cheung Yiu-cheung and Chiu Chung-lun, also won Gold medals in the Paralympic Games of the same year, the (then-under construction) station was renamed ''Olympic'' on 16 December 1996, paying tribute to those achievements of Hong Kong athletes. The station is decorated with the pictures of the 1996 Summer Olympics and is named after the Olympic Games. Olympic is only one of two stations on the Tung Chung line not shared with another line, the other being . __TOC__ History On 22 June 1998, Olympic station opened in sync with Tung Chung line. Station layout Both side platforms are parallel to each other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South China Morning Post
The ''South China Morning Post'' (''SCMP''), with its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Post'', is a Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained Hong Kong's newspaper of record since British colonial rule. Editor-in-chief Tammy Tam succeeded Wang Xiangwei in 2016. The ''SCMP'' prints paper editions in Hong Kong and operates an digital media, online news website. The newspaper circulation, newspaper's circulation has been relatively stable for years—the average daily circulation stood at 100,000 in 2016. In a 2019 survey by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the ''SCMP'' was regarded relatively as the most credible paid newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apple Daily
''Apple Daily'' ( zh, link=no, 蘋果日報) was a popular tabloid published in Hong Kong from 1995 to 2021. Founded by Jimmy Lai, it was one of the best-selling Chinese language newspapers in Hong Kong.壹傳媒有限公司 According to the information released by Next Digital, "Apple Daily" was the second best-selling Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong. Along with entertainment magazine ''Next Magazine (Hong Kong and Taiwan), Next Magazine'', ''Apple Daily'' was part of Next Digital. The paper published print and digital editions in Traditional Chinese, as well as a digital-only English edition. A Apple Daily (Taiwan), sister publication of the same name remained operational online for a time in Taiwan under a joint venture between Next Digital and other Taiwanese companies. In a Reuters Institute poll conduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bus Services In Hong Kong
Bus services in Hong Kong have a long history. As of 2016, five companies operate franchised public bus services. There are also a variety of non-franchised public bus services, including feeder bus services to railway stations operated by MTR, and residents' services for residential estates (particularly those in the New Territories). History Current situation Bus services in Hong Kong can be roughly divided into three types: franchised buses, non-franchised buses and public light buses. Franchised bus As of 2014, there are five privately owned bus companies providing franchised bus services across Hong Kong, operating more than 700 routes with some 5,800 buses. Hong Kong is one of the few cities in the world that bus services are not operated or owned by the Government. These are the five franchised bus companies in Hong Kong: * Kowloon Motor Bus Company (1933) Limited Mainly provides service in Kowloon and New Territories, operating about 400 routes with about 3,850 bus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
