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The Peninsula Hong Kong is a colonial-style luxury hotel located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is the flagship property of The Peninsula Hotels group, part of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Group. The hotel opened in 1928 and was the first under The Peninsula brand.
The Kadoorie family or "Khedouri" (Hebrew: כדורי, Arabic: خضوري) are a wealthy Hong Kong–based family, originally Jews from Baghdad, Iraq. [1] From the mid-18th century they were established in Mumbai (then known as Bombay), becoming one of the wealthiest families in Asia; their businesses were subsequently centered in Shanghai from ...
The Peninsula Hotels is a chain of luxury hotels operated by Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels. Founded by the Kadoorie family , the first hotel opened in 1928 and now stands as the oldest in Hong Kong. [ 1 ]
Hung Hom Bay Traditional Chinese 紅磡灣 Simplified Chinese 红磡湾 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hóngkàn Wān Yue: Cantonese Jyutping hung4 ham3 waan1 Hung Hom Bay Buildings in August 2014 Hong Kong map in 1915, indicated the Hung Hom Bay in the southeast of Kowloon Peninsula Hung Hom Bay was a bay in Victoria Harbour, between Tsim Sha Tsui and Hung Hom in the southeast ...
An Eastern Entrepot: A Collection of Documents Illustrating the History of Hong Kong. Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 293. ASIN B0007J07G6. OCLC 632495979. Tsang, Steve (1995). Government and Politics: A Documentary History of Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press. p. 312. ISBN 962-209-392-2.
Military encampments on Kowloon Peninsula in 1860, looking south toward Hong Kong Island. The Kowloon Peninsula is a peninsula that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong, alongside Victoria Harbour and facing toward Hong Kong Island. The Kowloon Peninsula and the area of New Kowloon are collectively known as ...
Map of Tai Tam (1845) Tai Tam or Tytam is an area in Southern District on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong.Tai Tam means a big pool in the Chinese language which illustrates a triangular bay, namely Tai Tam Bay between Stanley Peninsula, D'Aguilar Peak and Tai Tam Tuk ([tàːi tʰȁːm tók̚], lit. innermost of Tai Tam, also known as Tytam Took).
Hong Kong [e] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With 7.4 million residents of various nationalities [f] in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the world.