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Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a town built on a bay in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and fleets of fishing boats in the area. The modern city is centered the Tsuen Wan station of the MTR.
Chan comes from one of the oldest indigenous clans in the New Territories of Hong Kong. His Hakka family ancestral hall, Sam Tung Uk Museum, situated at the centre of Tsuen Wan, is now a museum of local traditions and culture. Chan's father Chan Lau Fong (陳流芳), JP., BBS., had served as district board chairman of Tsuen Wan from 1994 to 1999.
Tsing Yi Estate (Chinese: 青衣邨) is the only public housing estate on Tsing Yi Island which name does not start with the character Cheung (長). This is due to the fact that the estate was named in the memory of Tsing Yi Town (青衣墟), a traditional market town which was demolished in the 1980s to make way for new town developments ...
Tsing Yi (Chinese: 青衣), sometimes referred to as Tsing Yi Island, is an island in the New Territories of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan. With an area of 10.69 km 2 (4.13 sq mi), the island has been extended drastically by reclamation along almost all its natural shore and the annexation of Nga Ying ...
At the time of the construction of the Shek Pik Reservoir on Lantau Island, in the late 1950s, most of the villagers of Shek Pik Village moved into five-storey apartment blocks in the urban Shek Pik New Village (石碧新村) in Tsuen Wan. The two temples, Hau Wong Temple and Hung Shing Temple, were combined into the current Hung Hau Temple.
Central (Chinese: 中環; Cantonese Yale: Jūngwàan) is an MTR station located in the Central area of Hong Kong Island.The station's livery is firebrick red but brown on the Tsuen Wan line platforms.
The Cliveden (Chinese: 寶雲匯) is a private housing estate in mid-level of Route Twisk, Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, next to The Cairnhill. It is a low-density European-style luxury residential development project in the mid-levels of Tsuen Wan District, with a total of 9 residential buildings (there is no 4th block).
Located on the hillside of Tai Mo Shan, Chuen Lung Village is one of the oldest Hakka villages in the area. The village is mainly inhabited by the Tsang Clan (Chinese: 曾氏), the indigenous inhabitants of the New Territories, whose ancestry is from Longchuan County in Guangdong Province (west of Wuhua County today), and who migrated southwards to settle in the Tsuen Wan District (including ...