With support from the Wa Sung Community Service Club and other Chinatown organizations, Councilmember Abel Guillén secured $195,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds to finance the ...
You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat — tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight — is one of the ...
Hong Kong's Aberdeen Harbor was home to thousands of fishing families known as "the floating people." They lived on junk boats or sampans — small, flat-bottomed wood boats about 4.5 to 7 meters in ...
The boats ranged from a large, raft-sized boat built from rain collection barrels secured by a wooden frame and powered by a bicycle frame attached to small paddle wheels, to a one-person boat ...
Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...
HONG KONG, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Dukling, a traditional Chinese junk boat frequently spotted around Hong Kong's picturesque Victoria Harbour, has readjusted its tour routes to survive the coronavirus ...