Talk:Ma Wan

Ma Wan
There should be a topic created for Park Island as Ma Wan is today more well known as Park Island being a residential housing project.


 * I think it's better known by most people as one end of the Tsing Ma Bridge. Rodparkes 01:45, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Rose Garden?
What is the Hong Kong government's "Rose Garden plan"? I've never heard of it. I don't know either. You may search in the history of the page and see who added this —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.176.6.15 (talk) 08:31, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

"Highlights" Needs Better Organisation and Polishing
The Highlights section contains some interesting facts, but it needs to be better organised and have the English polished up. Also it duplicates some info in other sections. I will make a few changes, but more work is needed. Rodparkes 07:47, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your review. Feel free to comment more or advise on an expected frame. I try and list out items first and will polish afterwards. I would welcome you in Ma Wan should you wish to visit. 210.176.6.15 08:40, 20 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree. Also, the "highlights" read more like "Hey, look what they have at Park Island" than actual highlights/features. I will also make some changes to this, but it's rather depressing -- though not surprising, considering the rather commercial nature of several of the HK articles. L 12:45, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I am now going to work on this. I will just base on the content currently appeared to improve the section. If once finds any misleading information, just correct it. Addaick (talk) 07:19, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Language
Anyone knows how to add a language for the page ?

There is a french version of "Ma Wan" but it is not linked on the left panel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.80.26.172 (talk) 08:34, 23 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Added. --&mdash; HenryLi (Talk) 15:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

For the history section
For the last 250 years there has been a small fishing village named Tin Liu, founded by the Chan family from Tsing Yi island.

The island was accessible only by ferry until the massive Lantau Link bridges were built to serve the new aiport at Chek Lap Kok in the 1990s. At the time there was just the village, a few farms and some newer dwellings dating from the 1960s. Most of the island was unspoilt island bush.

At that time, the island was somehow acquired by Sun Hung Kai, HK's largest property developer, who built their Park Island luxury development on the previously unspoilt end of the island. SHK bought all the flats as a job lot. The fishing village residents were offered new homes in a housing estate behind the luxury towers. Although the new buildings are bigger and more modern than the old village, the new estate is drab and lacks the character of the old town.

The Kwok family that controls SHK are evangelical Christians. They have built theme parks on the island, one an old collection of environmental feature like wind turbines and solar panels, mixed with tacky, bricked in plazas where they stage large weddings etc. The other feature is a giant replica of Noah's Ark, a so-called educational attraction that highlights the owner's fundamentalist creationist beliefs.

However, it's not certain that they will be able to enjoy their creation for much longer: two of the three brothers (the third is estranged), Raymond and Thomas, along with Rafael Hui, the head of the HK civil service, were arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption on March 29 as part of an unprecedented investigation into allegations of bribery and misconduct in public office.

The ICAC alleges that, from 2000-2009, Hui took more than HK$34 million in bribes, and had the rent-free use of a flat in Happy Valley, from the two Kwok brothers and other defendants in return for favours.

Now the old village, with its centuries of history and charm, a gutted wreck. Judging by the angry graffiti, not all residents were happy with the move.

posted by Tony Henderson http://home.pacific.net.hk/~tonyhen/ 27 Aug 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.119.74.116 (talk) 11:39, 27 August 2012 (UTC)


 * More for the history section, and the rest of the article, here, from historian Stuart Heaver, in the SCMP: The little island that could have been Hong Kong, but for a British army officer’s bad weather day 230 years ago. Onanoff (talk) 09:25, 21 March 2022 (UTC)

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