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time content from Historic Hong Kong is published.Link CopiedThen & Now18 hours agoHow Hong Kong became a souvenir hunter’s paradiseThen & Now5 Jun 2025When Indonesia was the Hongkonger’s

summer destination of choiceCulture31 May 2025When a wall collapsed on people at a bus stop near a school, killing 6Opinion30 May 2025Forget tourist fads. Let’s better preserve, promote Hong

Kong heritage+ FOLLOWRegister and follow to be notified the next time content from Historic Hong Kong is published.OverviewLatest NewsLink CopiedThen & Now18 hours agoHow Hong Kong became a

souvenir hunter’s paradiseThen & Now5 Jun 2025When Indonesia was the Hongkonger’s summer destination of choiceCulture31 May 2025When a wall collapsed on people at a bus stop near a school,

killing 6Opinion30 May 2025Forget tourist fads. Let’s better preserve, promote Hong Kong heritageSummaryThroughout its history, Hong Kong has been a place of ever-changing contours and

skylines as well as home to a great variety of people. Here we present columns, photo galleries and stories about people who've lived in and helped shape Hong Kong, buildings preserved and

long vanished, historical events, the city's changing culture and how the past shapes the present....moreExplainersHong Kong Public TransportHow old is the Hong Kong tram system?VIEW

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world war relics conservedread more >///The Star Ferry’s history dates back to 1888 when the Kowloon Ferry Company was founded. In 1898, a British businessman purchased the fleet of four

ferries, and the service became known as the Star Ferry Companyread more >///Reclaimed land represents around 6%of Hong Kong’s total arearead more >///More Knowledge CategoriesEdward

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