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Yau Kam Tau
Yau Kom Tau Village (), sometimes transliterated as Yau Kam Tau Village, is a village located in the Yau Kom Tau area, west of Tsuen Wan, in Tsuen Wan District, Hong Kong. Administration Yau Kom Tau is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within the Tsuen Wan Rural Committee. For electoral purposes, Yau Kom Tau Village is part of the Lai To constituency, which was formerly represented by Ronald Tse Man-chak until July 2021. History Yau Kom Tau Village was established in 1864 and settled by the Yeung family from Yuen Long. It was originally located at the place of the current Nan Fung Centre, next to Tsuen Wan station. The village was resited to the present location in 1984, following the development of the MTR. Features An ancestral hall, rebuilt in 1984, is located at the entrance of the village. A Tin Hau Temple is located in Yau Kom Tau Village. It is a single storey stone house. It lies by the side of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HK YauKomTau TinHauTemple
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] |
