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Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus (Chinese: 人力車觀光巴士) was a brand of sightseeing transportation service operated by Citybus, one of the franchised bus services operators in Hong Kong. It was operated by New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) before it was merged into Citybus on 1 July 2023.
In post-war Hong Kong, rickshaws was one of the main transportation either for transporting goods or for transporting people during the Japanese invasion, known as the Battle of Hong Kong. Japanese military hired many rickshaw pullers to have them gathered and organize with other cooks and seamen for an underground armed team to enact the anti ...
Outside the Lion Pavilion Lookout in 2011 on The Peak, Hong Kong, can find this last licensed rickshaw ride in this ex-British colony. Rickshaws were first imported to Hong Kong from Japan in 1880. They were a popular form of transport for many years, peaking at more than 3,000 in the 1920s. However, their popularity waned after World War II.
In the early 1990s, the service levels of CMB were in decline. Therefore, the Government of Hong Kong started to introduce new competitors by transferring the franchise of CMB routes to other companies. As a result, Citybus became the second franchisee of the bus service on Hong Kong Island. Over 40 routes were transferred between 1991 and 1995 ...
Ngan Shing-kwan, CBE (Chinese: 顏成坤; 1900 or 1903 – 14 April 2001), born in Hong Kong, [1] [2] was a notable Hong Kong transport and later property tycoon that ran China Motor Bus. Ngan got his start running his uncle's rickshaw service during the 1920s in Kowloon.
Prior to this, Ngan had operated a rickshaw business also within the Kowloon Peninsula. In 1933, the company received an exclusive bus franchise agreement from the Government of Hong Kong to operate routes on Hong Kong Island. [3] After World War II, the network of CMB's routes expanded alongside exploding population on the island. New buses ...
A Hong Kong judge on Thursday convicted seven people, including a pro-democracy former lawmaker, of rioting during mob violence at a subway station at the height of the city’s anti-government ...
In 1945, Yu worked as a rickshaw driver in Shanghai, China. [4] In the 1957, Yu started his working life in Hong Kong as a cleaner. [5] [3] [4] In the 1960s, Yu was a construction worker. Yu followed his boss to Taiwan and started a property business. [3] In 1973, Yu invested in the stock market including junk stocks and lost everything. [4]