Ho Man Tin
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Etymology edit
From Cantonese 何文田 (ho4 man4 tin4).
Proper noun edit
Ho Man Tin
- A residential area in Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Sinosphere[2]:
- Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.
- 2016 March 2, “Hong Kong residential plot sells for higher price than forecast”, in Reuters[3], archived from the original on 2023-04-20, Financials[4]:
- The plot, in the Kowloon neighbourhood of Ho Man Tin, sold for HK$6.4 million ($823,204) to a company owned by Goldin Financial Holdings Ltd.
- 2022, Stuart Wolfendale, “Two Reports”, in More When I Know You Better: The Life of Albert Sanguinetti, 1923–2009[5], City University of Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150:
- Inspector MacLennan was to be arrested on the morning of 15 January 1980 on eight counts of gross indecency. An arrest party went to his quarters in Ho Man Tin.
- 2023 January 27, Hillary Leung, “NGO raises questions over ‘racial and cultural insensitivity’ as Filipino man shot by Hong Kong police charged with assault”, in Hong Kong Free Press[6], archived from the original on 08 October 2023, Hong Kong[7]:
- Live rounds were used twice during the 2019 protests and unrest. And in March 2009, Dil Bahadur Limbu – an unarmed Nepalese man – was shot dead by a policeman in Ho Man Tin. The incident caused a public outcry among the South Asian community after a coroner ruled his death was “a lawful killing.”
- 2023 February 27, Didi Tang, “Abby Choi: Missing Hong Kong model’s skull found in soup pot”, in The Times[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 February 2023:
- Police believe the accused men planned the killing because Choi was going to sell a luxury property in the exclusive community of Kadoorie Hill in Ho Man Tin.
Translations edit
area in Hong Kong
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