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Yuen Chau Kok
Yuen Chau Kok () is an area in Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Sha Tin Road and Prince of Wales Hospital and is within walking distance of City One station of the MTR Tuen Ma line. The island was a major station for travellers and goods plying between Guangdong and Kowloon. Wong Uk Village () was a trading station for merchants and travellers until the late 19th century. Most of the old buildings of the village were ruined or demolished due to the reclamation of Tide Cove for the development of the Sha Tin New Town. One branch of Tse village of Sha Tin Wai Sha Tin Wai () is an area in Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong, named after Sha Tin Wai Village (). Name The name of the Sha Tin area allegedly comes from the fact that British colonial officials mistook the name of Sha Tin Wai villa ..., also relocated to Yuen Chau Kok and built their own village over there. Education Yuen Chau Kok is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 91. Withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HK Yuen Chau Kok Shing Mun River
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 resumed after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
