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Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate
Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate () is a public housing estate in Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon, Hong Kong, along the north of Lung Cheung Road, near Wong Tai Sin Temple and MTR Wong Tai Sin station. It consists of eight blocks built in 2000 and 2009 respectively, and it is now undergoing redevelopment. Background Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate was a Government Low Cost Housing Estate, called Wong Tai Sin Government Low Cost Housing Estate (). It was divided into eastern and western parts. Western part had a total of 14 blocks (no Block 13) built in 1963 while Eastern part had 5 totally blocks in 1965. In 1973, it was renamed as Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate. In 1980, Block 8 of Lower Wong Tai Sin Estate, located at the south of Lung Cheung Road, was reassigned to Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate. And it was renamed as "Cheung Yan House" (). Between 1997 and 1998, Block 1 to 12 were demolished to reconstruct seven blocks (completed in 2000) and Lung Cheung Mall (). In 2002, Block 14 and 15 were demolished ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HK Upper Wong Tai Sin Estate
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 List of cities in China, city and Special administrative regions of China, 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 List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the Global city, most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a British Hong Kong, colony of the British Empire after the Qing dynasty, Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Bao'an County, 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 obtaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
