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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Terminating trains on the MTR
The MTR in Hong Kong is one of the heaviest used and most efficient rapid transit railway networks in the world: I have previously blogged about the signalling systems and platform operations used to achieve the short headways between trains, but what happens to trains at the end of the line?
Posted in Transport
Tagged Hong Kong, Mass Transit Railway, MTR, rail operations, railway
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Welcome (part 2)
Over the past few months my main blog at http://wongm.com/ has been a mix of different topics – with one big scoop of photo essays from Hong Kong, and the rest being whatever topics take my fancy. I have decided to split the Hong Kong related posts onto their own domain, which is what you are reading right now.
Posted in Housekeeping
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US$500 a month and my chores are done?
If you spent yesterday with me wandering around Lamma Island, you might have seen some flyers like these, posted by Filipinas looking for work as domestic help. Buy why are there so many of them?
Lamma: Isle of the Gweilo
When walking around Lamma Island you would be forgiven for thinking it is a traditional island untouched by the Western world, but you couldn’t be further from the truth – the local community on Lamma Island isn’t like anywhere else in Hong Kong, with a hippy colony reputation. This noticeboard only explains half of the story…
Lamma Island: a sleepy little hideaway
After a trip to the tourist island of Cheung Chau, today I’m headed somewhere much quieter – Lamma Island. Compared to Cheung Chau, Lamma covers five times the land area but has a quarter of the population – 6,000 residents over 13.55 km², and the lifestyle is even more laid back.
Posted in Everyday Life, Tourism
Tagged Hong Kong, Lamma Island, on the water, Outlying Islands
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