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 the floor in front of us; he has been rehearsing his forthcoming production, The Ten Commandments, in which he will play Moses. It is a suitable backdrop for the genesis of another righteous story.
July 09, 2021
Two partially built towers of The Pavilia Farm III will be demolished and rebuilt.
South China Morning Post
An unprecedented blunder at housing development The Pavilia Farm, which will be partially demolished, has set alarm bells ringing across Hong Kong s construction sector over inadequacies in site supervision and project management, according to industry observers.
Shock waves rumbled through the world s most expensive real estate market on Thursday (July 8) after it was revealed the developer of The Pavilia Farm, Hong Kong s bestselling new residential property last year, would tear down and rebuild two out of seven blocks under construction because substandard concrete was used.