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Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School
Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School or TSWGSS was established in 1990. It is located in Tin Yiu Estate in Tin Shui Wai, a part of Hong Kong. Having adopted the policy of inclusive education, it is a co-educational grammar school. TSWGSS is a nominated secondary school of Tin Shui Wai Government Primary School. TSWGSS was first built in Au Tau in Yuen Long in 1990. It has moved to Tin Shui Wai since 1992. Medium of instruction in junior forms had been switched from English to Chinese starting from September 1998. Secondary School Profiles. Retrieved 2009-8-5. The TSWGSS campus is next to Yuen Long Lutheran Seconda ...
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Yuen Long District
Yuen Long District (formerly romanised as Un Long) is one of the districts of Hong Kong. Located in the northwest of the New Territories, it had a population of 662,000 in 2021 Geography Yuen Long District contains the largest alluvial plain in Hong Kong, the Yuen Long-Kam Tin plain. With an area of 144 km2, the district covers many traditional villages including Ping Shan Heung, Ha Tsuen Heung, Kam Tin Heung, Fung Kat Heung, Pat Heung, San Tin Heung and Shap Pat Heung, as well as Yuen Long Town and Tin Shui Wai. Two new towns have been developed within this district. Yuen Long New Town was developed from the traditional market town of Yuen Long Town from the late 1970s. Tin Shui Wai New Town has developed since the early 1990s, and is built on land reclaimed from former fish ponds once common in the district. History According to archaeological findings, there were inhabitants settled in the district around 3,500 years ago. The ruling clan of the Tang Clan () l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Yiu Estate
Tin Yiu Estate () is a public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Light Rail Tin Yiu stop, Tin Tsz stop and Tin Shui Wai stop as well as MTR Tin Shui Wai station. It is the first public housing estate in Tin Shui Wai New Town. It is divided into Tin Yiu (I) Estate () and Tin Yiu (II) Estate (), and consists of 12 residential buildings completed in 1992 and 1993. Tin Yau Court () is a Home Ownership Scheme court in Tin Shui Wai, near Tin Yiu Estate. It consists of three blocks built in 1992. Houses Tin Yiu (I) Estate Tin Yiu (II) Estate Tin Yau Court Demographics According to the 2016 by-census, Tin Yiu Estate had a population of 24,929 while Tin Yau Court had a population of 5,090. Altogether the population amounts to 30,019. Politics For the 2019 District Council election, the estate fell within three constituencies. Tin Yiu (I) Estate is located in the Tin Yiu constituency, which is represented by Ben Ho Wai-pan, Tin Yiu (II) Estate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Shui Wai
Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northwest of Central, the main business area in the territory, on land reclaimed from low-lying areas south of Deep Bay, next to historic Ping Shan. while the total projected population for when the town is fully built-out is about 306,000. History The land on which Tin Shui Wai was built did not exist at the beginning of the 1900s, while the adjacent Ping Shan was by the sea. The water north of Ping Shan gradually turned to marshes and villagers converted them into pools and rice paddies. The pools became ''gei wai'' fish ponds where most of the residents were fishermen before the new town was developed. With the decline in aquaculture, most of the fish ponds were abandoned. The Hong Kong Government developed the area into a new town t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuen Long
Yuen Long is a town in the western New Territories, Hong Kong. To its west lie Hung Shui Kiu (), Tin Shui Wai, Lau Fau Shan and Ha Tsuen, to the south Shap Pat Heung and Tai Tong, to the east Au Tau and Kam Tin (), and to the north Nam Sang Wai. Name The Cantonese name Yuen Long may refer to the limits of the original market town, Yuen Long New Town, Yuen Long Plain or Yuen Long District. Market town The central part of Yuen Long was traditionally a market town, in the area now known as Yuen Long San Hui (), in Yuen Long District, where people from the surrounding villages sold their crops and fish. The market is still a place where people from villages in the northwest New Territories shop and trade. Like many market towns in Hong Kong, the market operates only on certain days each week. Modern shopping malls and restaurants have also established. New towns Two new towns have been developed in Yuen Long since the 1970s: Yuen Long New Town was developed in and around t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it is the region described in the Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory. According to that treaty, the territories comprise the mainland area north of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River (which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China), as well as over 200 outlying islands, including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of HK. Later, after New Kowloon was defined from the area between the Boundary Street and the Kowloon Ranges spanned from Lai Chi Kok to Lei Yue Mun, and the extension of the urban areas of Kowloon, New Kowloon was gradually urbanised and absorbed into Kowloon. The New Territories now comprises only the mainland north of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School (Tin Shui Wai, New Territories, Hong Kong)
Tin Shui Wai Government Secondary School or TSWGSS was established in 1990. It is located in Tin Yiu Estate in Tin Shui Wai, a part of Hong Kong. Having adopted the policy of inclusive education, it is a co-educational grammar school. TSWGSS is a nominated secondary school of Tin Shui Wai Government Primary School. TSWGSS was first built in Au Tau in Yuen Long in 1990. It has moved to Tin Shui Wai since 1992. Medium of instruction in junior forms had been switched from English to Chinese starting from September 1998. Secondary School Profiles. Retrieved 2009-8-5. The TSWGSS campus is next to |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuen Long Lutheran Secondary School
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Yuen is a Cantonese Chinese surname, which can refer to: 袁, 阮, 元, 源, 原 and 苑 * Yuan (surname), the Pinyin transliteration of the Han Chinese surnames 袁, 元, 源, 原 and 苑 * Ruan (surname), the Pinyin transliteration of the Han Chinese surname 阮 * Chinese yuan, the basic unit of currency in China See also * Yuen gongwon (UN Park), a burial ground for United Nations Command casualties of the Korean War *Yuen Poovarawan, Thai computer scientist (Yuen as a given name) *Yuan (other) Yuan may refer to: Currency * Yuan (currency), the basic unit of currency in historic and contemporary mainland China and Taiwan **Renminbi, the current currency used in mainland China, whose basic unit is yuan ** New Taiwan dollar, the current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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