Wong Chuk Hang
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Cantonese 黃竹坑／黄竹坑 (wong4 zuk1 haang1).
Proper noun[edit]
Wong Chuk Hang
- An area in Southern district, Hong Kong.
- 1954 April 5, “Sequel To Raid On Aberdeen Fishing Junk”, in China Mail[1], number 35783, →OCLC, page 10, column 6:
- Mr Blair-Kerr went on to say that the place where the offence occurred was just off Brick Hill, or Wong Chuk Hang, near Aberdeen. The complainant, Chan For-tai, would give evidence that he, his wife, mother and two brothers, set off in their fishing junk about 2 a.m., on January 5 to fish. They sailed south from Aberdeen, then eastwards towards Wong Chuk Hang, and were heading for an island further south, Po Toi.
Off Wong Chuk Hang, the junk was stopped by a small sampan, containing four occupants. The Crown's case was that two of them were the accused in the dock.
- 2020 July 10, Tiffany May, Austin Ramzy, “Hong Kong Police Raid Pollster on Eve of Pro-Democracy Camp Primary”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-10[3]:
- The police said that officers belonging to the Cyber Security and Technology Crime unit searched an office in the Wong Chuk Hang neighborhood on Friday afternoon on the suspicion that computers at the institute had been hacked, leading to a leak of personal information.
- 2021 January 28, Marianne Bray, “Hong Kong cooks up lab-grown fish as appetite for 'clean meat' rises”, in Reuters[4], archived from the original on 2021-01-29, APAC[5]:
- “Before I cooked the fish it was quite firm, but after I cooked it the texture changed to being like real fish,” Leung said of the culinary experiment that took place in the gritty Wong Chuk Hang neighbourhood late last year.
- 2022 August 18, Clifford Lo, Danny Mok, “Hong Kong police investigating after daughter of ex-assistant commissioner allegedly cheated on force exam”, in South China Morning Post[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-17, Law and Crime[7]:
- The female officer, who was attached to the patrol subunit at Central Police Station, was discovered cheating during the written test at the Police College in Wong Chuk Hang on Tuesday, a source on Wednesday said.