Despite the government's close watch, an illegal salt trade was still active on Lantau Island.

Smugglers on the Lantau Island smuggled salt from the island to the Canton City and attacked the government of the city.

The island slowly evolved into a commercial hub with merchants selling supplies to the local fishing people, boat repair and fishing gear as well as the place to do business for fishing people and small farmers of other nearby islands like Lantau Island.

New Lantao Bus finally conceded to allocate the Dennis Darts only on the northern part of Lantau Island and ordered some new Isuzu buses to serve the airport route A35.

The solid waste was dug up and transferred to To Kau Wan on the north shore of Northeast Lantau for temporary processing, and finally incinerated at the Chemical Waste Treatment Centre on the Tsing Yi Island amid protests by residents.

Originally the site of fishing villages, the island has been developed in recent years with the construction of Tung Chung New Town on its north-western coast and the completion of several major infrastructure projects, including Lantau Link ( 1997 ), Hong Kong International Airport ( 1998 ), Hong Kong Disneyland ( 2005 ) and Ngong Ping 360 ( 2006 ).

Lantau was a major site of resistance against the Japanese during the second world war.

It was one of the world's largest single reclamation projects: the reclamation of nine square kilometers of the seabed near Northern Lantau, which was one of the major habitats of the dolphins.

The major road South Lantau Road begins with Mui Wo and ends in Shek Pik, with Tung Chung Road branching from Cheung Sha to Tung Chung.

The major service area of the company is Lantau Island, while it is the only bus company in the southern part of the Island.

It is adjacent to Tsing Ma Bridge which also serves as major connector between the Hong Kong International Airport on Lantau Island and the rest of Hong Kong.

Designed by Sir Norman Foster, the huge land reclamation project is linked to the centre of Hong Kong by the Lantau Link, which features three new major bridges: the world's sixth largest suspension bridge, Tsing Ma, which was built in 1997, connecting the islands of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan ; the world's longest cable-stayed bridge carrying both road and railway traffic, Kap Shui Mun, which links Ma Wan and Lantau ; and the world's first major 4-span cable-stayed bridge, Ting Kau, which connects Tsing Yi and the mainland New Territories.

Kap Shui Mun ( Chinese: 汲水門 ) or Throat Gates ( historically spelled Capsuimoon ) is a major channel, between Lantau Island and Ma Wan, in Hong Kong.

One of the largest construction projects in Hong Kong has been the new Hong Kong International Airport on Chek Lap Kok near Lantau, which was the most extensive single civil engineering project ever undertaken.

Hong Kong has 263 islands over 500 m < sup > 2 </ sup >, including Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau, Lamma Island, Peng Chau and Tsing Yi Island.

Of these, 15, 250 are red urban taxis, 2, 838 green New Territories taxis, and 50 blue Lantau taxis.

Urban taxis are the most expensive, while Lantau taxis are the cheapest.

Private cars are most popular in newly developed areas such as Lantau and areas near the boundary with mainland China, as there are fewer public transportation options, and more parking spaces compared to other areas of Hong Kong.

* The Ngong Ping Cable Car is a public cableway on Lantau Island.

Kap Shui Mun Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge connecting Ma Wan and Lantau Island, and is also part of Route 8 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 8.

* 2005 – Hong Kong Disneyland opens in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong.

The imperial court later sought refuge in Lantau Island's Mui Wo, where Emperor Zhao Shi eventually died ; he was succeeded by his younger sibling, Zhao Bing, who was seven.

The Lantau Link, of which the bridge is an integral part, was opened on April 27, 1997.

It is part of the Lantau Link, which, with two long span bridges links the New Territories and Lantau Island, and eventually leads to the Hong Kong International Airport on Chek Lap Kok via North Lantau Highway.

The other bridge is the Kap Shui Mun Bridge linking Ma Wan to Lantau Island over Kap Shui Mun.

The Tsing Ma Bridge has been an important gateway to Lantau Island.

It is Route 8 expressway, which connects the Lantau Link, the West Kowloon expressway, Cheung Sha Wan and Shatin.

Toll payable on the Lantau Link -- of which Tsing Ma Bridge is part -- for motorcycles, private cars, public double-decker buses and heavy goods vehicles are HK $ 20, $ 30, $ 60 and $ 80 respectively, and payable only for the eastbound direction from Lantau to Tsing Yi.

In order to watch and get further information about it, one can go to the Lantau Link Visitor Centre and Viewing Platform which is located at the northwest corner of Tsing Yi Island, just next to the Bridge's Tsing Yi end.

Pictures and the structure of the Lantau Link and Ting Kau Bridge are on display at the Centre.

Peng Chau viewed from Lantau Island.

Peng Chau (, Jyutping: ping4 zau1 ) is a small island located off the north-eastern coast of Lantau Island, Hong Kong, which has an area of 0. 99 km².

Peng Chau is accessible by a ferry ( Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry ) from Central on Hong Kong Island, or by ferries from Mui Wo, Chi Ma Wan and Cheung Chau ( New World First Ferry ), or by Kai-to ferries from Discovery Bay on Lantau Island.

* Kap Shui Mun Bridge carries both road and railway traffic, with a main span of 430 metres and an overall length of 1323 metres, connecting Ma Wan and Lantau Island in Hong Kong as part of the Lantau Link serving Hong Kong International Airport.

The villagers participated in the Hungarian national uprising of István Bocskay in 1605, and of Count Francis II Rákóczi in 1705.

Following the Glyndŵr uprising, the villagers of the Creuddyn peninsula were harshly taxed and by 1507 they had nearly all fled their homes.

In the beginning of the uprising, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang recruited 900 villagers to be a patrol.

In the film, Dr. Rao, comes to a village, to set up a dairy cooperative, which upsets not just the middlemen, who were hitherto exploiting the villagers, but also the age-old feudal structure of the village, soon an uprising is sparked among the local untouchables, which leads to an economic revolution as well.

He implored his thousands of followers to likewise begin making salt along the seashore, " wherever it is convenient " and to instruct villagers in making illegal, but necessary, salt.

Mainstream Arab society can be conceived of as divided into three classes, Bedouin ( nomads ), farmers fellahin ( villagers ) and hadar ( townspeople ), though these are often little more than descriptive.

This produced adequate power for the miller to meet the needs of the local farmers and villagers.

As much as 90 % of the villagers own a parcel of sugar cane and are very active cane farmers.

One of them, the BBC's reporter Jacky Rowland, reported that the dead " were all ordinary men ; farmers, labourers, villagers.

Shortly earlier, in about 1956, René Nebesky-Wojokowitz wrote a report after he was told by villagers of Kusundas conducting silent trade with Nepali farmers.

The family is lightly but effectively characterized, and on the outskirts of the story are the villagers, the small businessmen, and the surrounding farmers – the nucleus of Mayhem Parva.

The villagers, who were farmers, lived peacefully and had significant interaction with their Jewish neighbors.

In 1982, an Amnesty International report estimated that over 10, 000 indigenous Guatemalans and peasant farmers were killed from March to July of that year, and that 100, 000 rural villagers were forced to flee their homes.

Until the middle of the 20th century, an agricultural system operated by downland farmers known as ' sheep-and-corn farming ' underpinned this: the sheep ( most famously the Southdown breed ) of villagers would be systematically confined to certain corn fields to improve their fertility with their droppings and then they would be let out onto the downland to graze.

Townspeople, villagers and farmers formed a lower class called the rayah.

The villagers are mostly farmers, merchants or fishermen.

Wall construction has also been improved: when assigning two or more villagers, they evenly spread out instead of working on the same patch, and when multiple farmers are sent on one farm, the surplus will start cultivating adjacent farms instead of idling.

PLBLS, a voluntary organization functioning over a decade to protect the bird sanctuaries, educating the students, villagers and farmers to protect the rare birds.

The Millstone had a long tradition as a public house in the centre of the village, used by generations of farmers and villagers.

In the only village actually named Chota, Spanish-speaking black Creole villagers live here but there are eleven other Afro-Ecuadorean villages with more than 100 inhabitants in the upper Chota ; the Quechua-speaking farmers live higher up in the Andes mountains.

The farmers fields that encircle the village and give its rural feel, are now mostly owned by the Proby family in nearby Elton village-who are based at Elton Hall. As little ago as the 1960s there were as many as 6 local farmers resident in the village employing villagers including John and David Simpson, Don Cooke, and Messrs. Kirby, Northern and Horsefield.

The first known store was built in 1850 to supply dry goods to the villagers and surrounding farmers.

The villagers of Appenzell town are still known as Hofer, to distinguish them from the surrounding farmers.

Fellahin was the term used throughout the Middle East in the Ottoman period and later to refer to villagers and farmers.

The majority of the villagers are subsistence farmers of maize and rice.

The villagers of Erangal are mostly traditional farmers who cultivate the adjoining farmlands.