Sai Kung North
English edit
Etymology edit
Partial calque of Cantonese 西貢北／西贡北 (“Sai Kung North”).
Proper noun edit
- An area in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong, occupying the northern part of Sai Kung Peninsula.
- A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
- 2001, Denis Bray, “The Heung Yee Kuk and Reservoirs”, in Hong Kong Metamorphosis[1], Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 95:
- When I arrived in the District Office at Tai Po, Rural Committees had recently been set up for Sha Tin and Sai Kung North.
- 2019 October 16, Kang-chung Ng, “How an abandoned village deep in a Hong Kong country park, inaccessible by road and poorly served by ferries, could be saved”, in South China Morning Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-10-16, Hong Kong economy[3]:
- They blamed the rigid land zoning policy, which restricts infrastructure development, for forcing many remote villages to become deserted.
Sai Kung North rural committee chairman Li Yiu-ban said: “It’s a waste of our scarce land resources.”