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The Shamrock was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center. It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. [ 1 ]
The road was initially named Chater Road, after Paul Chater, who developed the southwest point of Tsim Sha Tsui through The Wharf.To avoid confusion with Chater Road on Hong Kong Island, the road was renamed as Peking Road in 1909, [1] where Peking is an alternative way of romanising the name of the Chinese city Beijing.
Nathan Road (Chinese: 彌敦道) is the main thoroughfare in Kowloon, Hong Kong, aligned south–north from Tsim Sha Tsui to Sham Shui Po.It is lined with shops and restaurants and throngs with visitors, and was known in the post–World War II years as the Golden Mile, a name that is now rarely used.
MOUNTAIN VIEW/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Alphabet's YouTube on Tuesday said it would comply with a court decision and block access inside Hong Kong to 32 video links deemed prohibited content, in what ...
The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, composed of classical Chinese instruments, is the leading Chinese ensemble and plays a significant role in promoting traditional music in the community. [349] Hong Kong has never had a separate national anthem to the country that controlled it; its current official national anthem is therefore that of the People ...
The road was laid out after 1901 and named after William Julius Gascoigne, [2] Commander British Troops in China and Hong Kong from 1898–1903. It was reported in 1908 that "All the roads on the [Kowloon] peninsula are wide and lined with trees, and two in particular—Robinson Road [today's Nathan Road] and Gascoigne Road—are noticeable by reason of their width" and "Gascoigne Road, which ...
International Plaza is the site of the former Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, which opened in 1969 and closed on January 1, 2006. The owner, Hyatt Regency International, and Tandem Properties jointly announced on October 20, 2004, the redevelopment of the former Hyatt Regency Hong Kong into a retail-led building named “International Square”, or “iSQUARE” in English.
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