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As a very frequent user of the MMIS system run by the HKPublic Library I've alternately loved and loathed it ... wonderful to be freely able to access all these papers at home, maddening how slow it is to load, even with superfast fibre optic broadband.  Now there's a new system, and if anyone can help me round it I'd be really grateful.  I've watched the video for searching old papers, but so far despite my best efforts I can't get a specific paper for a specific date.  I can get a date range - say 1909-1919 for the HKDaily Press, then get a year of that range ...

Any 'gwulo' with acces to BBC4 TV may find the late AW's lifetime journey to HK interesting.

BBC4 tonight 19/August at 10pm BST.

Hello folks, back in the late 70's / early 80's I stayed at a hotel called the Grand.  I can't find any record of this hotel, does anyone know what street it was on? It wasn't massive, but from what I remember a nice place, modern and well equiped. Any thoughts would be much appreciated! Cheers, james

Found this in The China Mail(Hong Kong) of May 4th 1948:" STRANGE OBJECT OBSERVED. A ball of blush light about half the size of the moon in diameter streaked across a cloudless sky over Hong Kong late on Sunday [2nd] night,according to an observer`s report.The object,seen seen from the Praya, was travelling at high speed in a westerly direction. It disappeared behind the western end of the Peak in a few seconds. The ball did not have the characteristic tail of a meteor.

Does anyone know any expat families of 3 or 4 generations who are currently living in HK?

HK photographer Leong Ka-tai is keen to take their family portrait for the Festival Flare exhibition on Families, at the HK International Photo Festival.

Hello! Just wondering if anyone can help me out with this photo. I want to know whereabouts in Hong Kong this house might have been (I imagine it's been well and truly flattened by now!).

This house belonged to my g-grandfather and g-grandmother, Samuel and Elizabeth Baker (nee Kerr). Samuel was an engineer at the East Point Sugar Refinery and before that he worked for Jardine-M's Indo-China Steam Navigation Co (1890s-1910s), so I imagine he would have wanted to live close by to those places of work. 

taken by photographer on board Prince Robert, apparently the fifth ship to enter Hong Kong 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23057174@N02/sets/72157630976475156/

The new landlord of 27 Lugard Road, a Grade II Heritage Building completed in 1916, has applied to develop this almost 100-year old single family residency to a boutique hotel:

http://www.info.gov.hk/tpb/en/plan_application/A_H14_75.html

Hello

I am writing a romantic mystery novel set in the 1960s (about two thirds the way through), and I need to find out some additional information about gold smuggling in and out of Hong Kong in the 1960s.  I have found an old 'Asia Times' article on the Web about the 'fixed exchange rate' at that time.  To get round this, gold was bought legally on the London gold market and then exported to Macau where it was recast into shapes suitable for smuggling back.

This is a good resource for biographical information of Chinese community leaders in the 1930s, but of course everything said is positive.

http://ebooks.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/bd80203f29676fbf2d207d3c5e721ab5.pdf

I got the link from this page:  http://www.uwants.com/viewthread.php?tid=16352588&extra=page%3D3