Kowloon Tong
English
Etymology
From Cantonese 九龍塘 / 九龙塘 (gau2 lung4 tong4).
Proper noun
Kowloon Tong
- A residential area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
- 2007, Hong Kong 2006[1], Information Services Department of the Hong Kong SAR Government, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 332:
- The department continued to plan and build fire stations and ambulance depots to cope with the city's growing development and service needs and to adhere to the Government's policy of providing the fastest response possible to emergencies. During the year, a new fire station in Kowloon Tong and two ambulance depots in Mong Kok and Kwai Chung were commissioned.
- 2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 June 2015, Asia Pacific[3]:
- At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes.
- 2018 January 16, Venus Wu, Joy Leung, “Hong Kong's Wharf Holdings sets new record for land in prime area”, in Jacqueline Wong, editor, Reuters[4], archived from the original on 16 January 2018, Markets[5]:
- The plot, located in the high-end neighbourhood of Kowloon Tong, has a site area of about 11,300 square metres, with a maximum gross floor area of about 40,500 square metres.
- 2019 October 6, Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin, “Ignoring a ban on face masks, masked Hong Kongers march in huge numbers”, in The Washington Post[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2019, Asia & Pacific[7]:
- Personnel on the roof of the barracks of the People’s Liberation Army in the Kowloon Tong neighborhood raised a yellow flag warning marchers they were breaking the law and could be prosecuted — the first time protesters have elicited a reaction from the Chinese military.
Synonyms
- (obsolete) Kau Lung Tong