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Victoria Prison
Victoria Prison, was the first and longest-running prison to date in Hong Kong. It is located on Old Bailey Street in Central, Hong Kong Island. Named in honour of Queen Victoria, it was originally known as Victoria Gaol and was renamed into Victoria Prison in 1899. Victoria Prison has been redeveloped into a cultural and shopping destination generally called Tai Kwun (). Tai Kwun is composed of three declared monuments: the former Central Police Station, former Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison. History The prison was completed on 4 August 1841. It was originally known as the Victoria Gaol and is said to be the first western building constructed of durable material in Hong Kong. The prison still retains the facade of Victorian architecture, having been built mostly of granite and brick. Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary, was imprisoned there from 1931 to 1933. During World War II, the prison was occupied by the Japanese and most of its buildings were damage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Prison
Victoria Prison, was the first and longest-running prison to date in Hong Kong. It is located on Old Bailey Street in Central, Hong Kong Island. Named in honour of Queen Victoria, it was originally known as Victoria Gaol and was renamed into Victoria Prison in 1899. Victoria Prison has been redeveloped into a cultural and shopping destination generally called Tai Kwun (). Tai Kwun is composed of three declared monuments: the former Central Police Station, former Central Magistracy and Victoria Prison. History The prison was completed on 4 August 1841. It was originally known as the Victoria Gaol and is said to be the first western building constructed of durable material in Hong Kong. The prison still retains the facade of Victorian architecture, having been built mostly of granite and brick. Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary, was imprisoned there from 1931 to 1933. During World War II, the prison was occupied by the Japanese and most of its buildings were damage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secretary For Home Affairs
The Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs is the head of the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau of the Government of Hong Kong, which is responsible for local issues, and the provision of community and youth services. List of office holders Registrars General, 1845–1912 Secretaries for Chinese Affairs, 1913–1941 Secretaries for Chinese Affairs, 1946–1969 Secretaries for Home Affairs, 1969–1985 ; Home affairs were handled by Secretaries for District Administration between 1985 and 1989. Secretaries for Home Affairs, 1989–1997 Secretaries for Home Affairs, 1997-2022 Political party: Secretaries for Home and Youth Affairs, since 2022 Political party: References Notes External linksGovernment of HKSAR {{HK Principal Officials |
Declared Monuments Of Hong Kong
Declared monuments of Hong Kong are places, structures or buildings legally declared to receive the highest level of protection. In Hong Kong, declaring a monument requires consulting the Antiquities Advisory Board, the approval of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong as well as the publication of the notice on the ''Hong Kong Government Gazette''. As of February 2013, there were 101 declared monuments, of which 57 were owned by the Government and the remaining 44 by private bodies.Report No. 60 of the Director of AuditChapter 1: "Conservation of monuments and historic buildings" 28 March 2013. As of 10 March 2022, there were 132 declared monuments in Hong Kong, with 56 listed on Hong Kong Island, 53 on New Territories, 14 on Kowloon, and 9 on the Outlying Islands. Under Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance, some other buildings are classified as Grades I, II and III historic buildings, and are not listed below. Monument declaration and historic buildings grading system There wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Colonial Prisons In Asia
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Correctional Services
Hong Kong Correctional Services (also called Correctional Services Department (CSD)) is responsible for the management of prisoners and prisons in Hong Kong. The Commissioner of Correctional Services reports to the Secretary for Security. Although the Chief Magistrate (now Commissioner of Police) was given control over prisons in 1841, the legislation to create the department did not come into being until 1853. CSD was part of the Hong Kong Police Force until 1879 when the role of Superintendent of Victoria Gaol was created. The department has been financially independent from the Hong Kong Police Force since December 1920, when the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol was re-titled as the Superintendent of Prisons. History In February 2021, it was reported that the CSD had worked with the Security Bureau to reduce "collusion" between foreign governments and those in custody. The CSD began to ask those in custody to produce both their HKID and foreign passports, or else con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Struan Tonnochy
Malcolm Struan Tonnochy ( Chinese: 杜老誌) (5 December 1841 – 14 December 1882) was an Indian colonial major official serving in British India and in Hong Kong. He was acting Governor of Hong Kong in March 1882. Early years Tonnochy was born in Bengal, India in December 1841 to Thomas Tonnochy (a colonial collector in Bulundshahr) and Caroline Kemball. He was of Scottish and Indian extraction: his paternal grandfather was a Scot ( Bengal Army Sergeant Major Thomas Tonnochie) and his paternal grandmother, Catharine, was probably Indian. His maternal grandfather was a Conductor of Ordnance and maternal grandmother most likely Indian too. He was sent to England for education at Blackheath Proprietary School followed by Trinity College, Cambridge. Colonial Service in Hong Kong It seems that Tonnochy did not complete his studies at Cambridge, choosing instead to try for a new cadetship in the Hong Kong Civil Service, by competitive examination in 1862. In this he was success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places Named For Queen Victoria
Many places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant period, Queen Victoria. As such, Victoria is one of the most commemorated individuals in place-names around the world. Other places that have the name "Victoria", without the association with Queen Victoria, tend to be derived from the Spanish language-word for 'victory', see Victoria (other). Commonwealth Australia Australian Capital Territory *Queen Victoria Terrace, Canberra New South Wales * Queens Park, the urban park **, the Sydney suburb located adjacent to the urban park *Queen's Square, Sydney **Statue of Queen Victoria by Joseph Boehm * Queen Victoria Building, Sydney **Statue of Queen Victoria, Sydney *Queen Victoria Street, Bexley *Queen Victoria Street, Drummoyne *Victoria Street, Ashfield **One Victoria (1-7 Victoria St) *Victoria Bridge (Penrith) *Victoria Bridge, Picton * Victoria Road, Sydney Que ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix Rising (Hong Kong TV Series)
''Phoenix Rising'' (Traditional Chinese: 蘭花刼) is a TVB period drama series released overseas in July 2007 and aired on TVB Pay Vision Channel in March 2008. The drama was well received from the viewer in international broadcast. The show has been compared to 1989's hit drama, Looking Back In Anger. The Series was subsequently released on 2 January 2009 on Cambodia cable TV, PPCTV as the last country in showing it. In an unprecedented move by TVB, 11 years after production, it has been announced that the drama will premiere from 29 May 2017 on TVB Jade TVB Jade (), or simply Jade, is a Hong Kong Cantonese-language free-to-air television channel owned and operated by Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) as its flagship service, alongside its sister network, the English-language TVB Pearl. Br ..., with footage and audio digitally remastered for broadcast. Plot Kong Lai-Nga, Yim Pui-Woo and So Fei are sisters. Their parents died at birth, so the three of them were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightrise
''Nightrise '' is the third book in ''The Power of Five'' series, written by Anthony Horowitz. It was published and released in the UK on 2 April 2007 by Walker Books Ltd. It is preceded by ''Evil Star'', released in 2006, and followed by ''Necropolis'', which was released on 30 October 2008. The title is a reference to both the fictional organisation represented in the book, and the Old Ones' eclipsing presence on Earth. Plot summary The story begins with fourteen-year-old identical twin brothers Jamie and Scott Tyler, performing in a theatre in Reno, Nevada. The Nightrise Corporation is to kidnap the boys, who are part of the magic show that has performed at the theatre for the past six months. Their foster father, Don White, sells the twins off to them for $150,000, but Jamie escapes and is pursued. Scott is captured but Jamie is rescued by a woman. He awakens at a motel in which the woman is renting a room. The woman, who introduces herself as Alicia, says that her son, Danie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Freeman (Power Of Five)
Matthew "Matt" J. Freeman is the protagonist of Anthony Horowitz's ''The Power of Five'' novels ''Raven's Gate'' and ''Evil Star'', and one of the main characters in ''Necropolis'' and ''Oblivion''. He also briefly appeared in the third book of the series, ''Nightrise''. He was born in London, England, to an English mother and a father from New Zealand. However, after the death of his parents he went to live in Ipswich, then York. He is 14 years old at the start of the series but turns 15 in ''Necropolis'' and is destined to become the leader of "The Five". He is described as having short dark hair, blue eyes, broad shoulders and a muscular body, like a model or footballer. Early life Matthew Freeman spent the primary years of his life growing up with his kind and loving parents, Mark and Kate Freeman, in Dulwich. They were of comfortable financial stature, though they were not very rich. On the morning of the wedding of a family friend, Matt claimed he was ill (when really ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necropolis (2008 Novel)
''Necropolis'' is a fantasy novel by British writer Anthony Horowitz. It is the fourth novel in his ''The Power of Five'' series. The book was released in the United Kingdom and Australia on 30 October 2008, and it had sold 190,000 copies worldwide before Christmas 2008. Plot On a school field trip to St Meredith's Church, Scarlett Adams finds herself magically transported to a monastery in Ukraine, where she is captured by monks who worship the Old Ones. Scarlett escapes and returns to St Meredith's. The media storm resulting from Scarlett's disappearance alerts Matthew Freeman in Peru that Scarlett is the new Gatekeeper. Matt, Jamie Tyler and Richard Cole travel to London, but narrowly miss meeting Scarlett. The Nexus informs them that Scarlett's father works for the Nightrise Corporation and has taken her to Hong Kong, a city that is suspected of housing the Old Ones. Matt, along with Jamie and Richard, travel to Macau in search of Scarlett, on the advice of the Nexus. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony John Horowitz, (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include ''The Diamond Brothers'' series, the ''Alex Rider'' series, and ''The Power of Five'' series (known in the U.S. as ''The Gatekeepers''). His work for adults includes the play '' Mindgame'' (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, '' The House of Silk'' (2011) and '' Moriarty'' (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Atticus Pünd, '' Magpie Murders'' (2016) and '' Moonflower Murders'' (2020); and four novels featuring a fictionalised-version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne, ''The Word Is Murder'' (2017), ''The Sentence Is Death'' (2018), ''A Line to Kill'' (2021), and ''The Twist of a Knife'' (2022). The Estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming also chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilizing unpublished material by Fleming, starting with ''Trigger Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
