Choi Ying Estate
The following shows the public housing estates (including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS)) in Ngau Tau Kok, Jordan Valley, Kowloon Bay and surrounding neighbourhoods, in Kwun Tong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Overview Choi Ha Estate Choi Ha Estate () is a public estate and TPS estate in the hillside of Jordan Valley near Amoy Gardens. It consists of 3 blocks built in 1989. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 3 in 2000. Its name comes from nearby Choi Ha Road. Houses Choi Ha Estate is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net. Choi Fook Estate Choi Fook Estate (), formerly Choi Wan Road Site 3B (), is a public estate in Ping Shan next to Choi Ying Estate. Formerly a quarry site, Choi Fook Estate is ...
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Public Housing In Hong Kong
Public housing in Hong Kong is a set of mass housing programmes through which the Government of Hong Kong provides affordable housing for lower-income residents. It is a major component of housing in Hong Kong, with nearly half of the population now residing in some form of public housing. The public housing policy dates to 1954, after a fire in Shek Kip Mei destroyed thousands of shanty homes and prompted the government to begin constructing homes for the poor. Public housing is mainly built by the Hong Kong Housing Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society. Rents and prices are significantly lower than those for private housing and are heavily subsidised by the government, with revenues partially recovered from sources such as rents and charges collected from car parks and shops within or near the residences. Many public housing estates are built in the new towns of the New Territories, but urban expansion has left some older estates deep in central urban areas. They are ...
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Choi Ha Estate
The following shows the public housing estates (including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS)) in Ngau Tau Kok, Jordan Valley, Kowloon Bay and surrounding neighbourhoods, in Kwun Tong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Overview Choi Ha Estate Choi Ha Estate () is a public estate and TPS estate in the hillside of Jordan Valley near Amoy Gardens. It consists of 3 blocks built in 1989. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 3 in 2000. Its name comes from nearby Choi Ha Road. Houses Choi Ha Estate is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net. Choi Fook Estate Choi Fook Estate (), formerly Choi Wan Road Site 3B (), is a public estate in Ping Shan next to Choi Ying Estate. Formerly a quarry site, Choi Fook Esta ...
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Choi Wan Estate
Choi Wan Estate () is a public housing estate in Ngau Chi Wan, Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located between Ngau Chi Wan Village and Jordan Valley and the foot of Fei Ngo Shan. The estate is divided into Choi Wan (I) Estate () and Choi Wan (II) Estate (), and has a total of 21 blocks. It is one of the largest public housing estates in Wong Tai Sin District. Background Choi Wan Estate was the site of Ngau Chi Wan Village. Its name Choi Wan fits its geographical position because "Wan" (i.e. Choi Wan Estate, "Wan" means cloud in Cantonese) is above "Hung" (i.e. Choi Hung Estate, "Hung" means rainbow in Cantonese). The estate started construction in 1976 and finished in 1979. Choi Wan Estate is one of the few public housing estates in Hong Kong which blocks are not named with character in the estate name (i.e. "Choi" or "Wan"). Instead, the blocks are named based on the Chinese astronomical matters, for instance, Ngan Ho House (, ''lit.'' galaxy house) and Koon Yat Ho ...
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Choi Hing Road
Choi may refer to: * Choi (Korean surname), a Korean surname * Choi, Macau Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname Cui (崔) and Xu (徐) * Choi, Cantonese romanisation of Cai (surname) (蔡), a Chinese surname * CHOI-FM, a radio station in Quebec City, Canada * Choi Bounge, a character from the ''King of Fighters'' video game series *Children's Hospital of Illinois See also * Choy (other) Choy may refer to: People *Choy, Cantonese Chinese or version of Cai (surname) *Choy, a Malayalee surname, sometimes spelled as Choyee or Choyi Arts, entertainment, and media *CHOY-FM, a radio station in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada *CHOY-TV, a ...

New Clear Water Bay Road
Clear Water Bay Road () is a major road from Choi Hung Interchange in Ngau Chi Wan to Clear Water Bay, Sai Kung District. It also is a route to Sai Kung Town and Tseung Kwan O via Hiram's Highway and Hang Hau Road / Ying Yip Road respectively. An expressway deviation, New Clear Water Bay Road (), bypasses a steep, winding, 1 in 6 alignment of Clear Water Bay Road near Shun Lee and Fei Ngo Shan. In 1932, Clear Water Bay Road began from Kowloon City. In 1963, part of the road was renamed Choi Hung Road and Prince Edward Road East. Description Clear Water Bay Road begins at Ngau Chi Wan at the junction with Lung Cheung Road, Prince Edward Road East and Kwun Tong Road near MTR Choi Hung station. It then is bypassed by the newer deviation, running past Choi Wan Estate and Fei Ngo Shan south of Kowloon Peak and reaches Cha Liu Au (). It then merges with the new road then continues as a four-lane expressway east to Tseng Lan Shue, Pak Shek Wo and Pik Uk and runs downhill to Tai ...
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Hill
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct Summit (topography), summit. Terminology The distinction between a hill and a mountain is unclear and largely subjective, but a hill is universally considered to be not as tall, or as Grade (slope), steep as a mountain. Geographers historically regarded mountains as hills greater than above sea level, which formed the basis of the plot of the 1995 film ''The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain''. In contrast, hillwalkers have tended to regard mountains as peaks above sea level. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' also suggests a limit of and Whittow states "Some authorities regard eminences above as mountains, those below being referred to as hills." Today, a mountain is usually defined in the UK and Ireland as any summit at least high, while the official UK government's definition of a mountain is a summit of or higher. Some definitions include a topographical pro ...
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Home Ownership Scheme
The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing programme managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It was instituted in the late 1970s as part of the government policy for public housing with two aims – to encourage better-off tenants of rental flats to vacate those flats for re-allocation to families in greater housing need; and also to provide an opportunity for home ownership to families unable to afford to buy in the private sector. Under the scheme, the government sells flats to eligible public housing tenants and to lower-income residents at prices below the market level, with discounts usually between 30 and 40 per cent. It restricts resale of the units in the second-hand market to other families who qualify or, on the open market, after payment of a premium equal to the updated value of the discount given on the original purchase. As an ancillary scheme, the Housing Authority also entered into arrangements with local private developers to provi ...
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Choi Hing Court 2019
Choi may refer to: * Choi (Korean surname), a Korean surname * Choi, Macau Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname Cui (崔) and Xu (徐) * Choi, Cantonese romanisation of Cai (surname) (蔡), a Chinese surname * CHOI-FM, a radio station in Quebec City, Canada * Choi Bounge, a character from the ''King of Fighters'' video game series *Children's Hospital of Illinois See also * Choy (other) Choy may refer to: People *Choy, Cantonese Chinese or version of Cai (surname) *Choy, a Malayalee surname, sometimes spelled as Choyee or Choyi Arts, entertainment, and media *CHOY-FM, a radio station in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada *CHOY-TV, a ...

Quarry
A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground. The operation of quarries is regulated in some jurisdictions to reduce their environmental impact. The word ''quarry'' can also include the underground quarrying for stone, such as Bath stone. Types of rock Types of rock extracted from quarries include: *Chalk *China clay *Cinder *Clay *Coal * Construction aggregate (sand and gravel) * Coquina * Diabase *Gabbro *Granite * Gritstone *Gypsum *Limestone *Marble *Ores *Phosphate rock *Quartz *Sandstone * Slate *Travertine Stone quarry Stone quarry is an outdated term for mining construction rocks (limestone, marble, granite, sandstone, etc.). There are open types (called quarries, or open-pit mines) and closed types ( mines and caves). For thousands of years, only hand tools had been used in quarries. In the 18th century, the use of drilling and blasting operatio ...
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Ping Shan, Kowloon
Ping Shan () is a hill in Kwun Tong District, eastern Kowloon that lies between the communities of Ngau Chi Wan, Kowloon Bay and Jordan Valley, Hong Kong. Most of it was the Ping Shan Stone Quarry before redevelopedment into a new neighbourhood with numerous public housing estates and schools. Being unlabelled in most maps, it was often mistaken as part of the forementioned neighbourhoods and Ngau Tau Kok. History Initial human settlement was found in a northwestern section where Ping Shek Estate is now situated with villages named "Ping Shek" () and "Pak Uk Tsai" (). Except this northwestern section, most of Ping Shan was excavated as the Ping Shan Stone Quarry until 1975 when an MTR tunnel between Choi Hung station and Kowloon Bay station was built. As part of "Development near Choi Wan Road and Jordan Valley" project,https://www.hkie.org.hk/ea/eng/details.asp?id=137 Development near Choi Wan Road and Jordan Valley. Ping Shan was developed into a new neighbourhood with Ch ...
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Choi Tak Estate 201106
Choi may refer to: * Choi (Korean surname), a Korean surname * Choi, Macau Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surname Cui (崔) and Xu (徐) * Choi, Cantonese romanisation of Cai (surname) (蔡), a Chinese surname * CHOI-FM, a radio station in Quebec City, Canada * Choi Bounge, a character from the ''King of Fighters'' video game series *Children's Hospital of Illinois See also * Choy (other) Choy may refer to: People *Choy, Cantonese Chinese or version of Cai (surname) *Choy, a Malayalee surname, sometimes spelled as Choyee or Choyi Arts, entertainment, and media *CHOY-FM, a radio station in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada *CHOY-TV, a ...

Education Bureau
The Education Bureau (EDB) is responsible for formulating and implementing education policies in Hong Kong. The bureau is headed by the Secretary for Education and oversees agencies including University Grants Committee and Student Finance Office. History The Education Department ( and before 1983) was responsible for education matters in the territory, with the exception of post-secondary and tertiary education. In 2003, the department was abolished and a new bureau, the Education and Manpower Bureau ( abbreviated EMB) was formed. In July 2007, under newly re-elected Chief Executive Donald Tsang, the manpower portfolio was split away to the new Labour and Welfare Bureau, leaving this body as the Education Bureau. The bureau was formerly housed at the Former French Mission Building. Structure The bureau mainly consists of seven branches, which are responsible for different policies. Each branch is led by a Deputy Secretary for Education. *Further & Higher Education B ...
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