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The West Kowloon Immigration office in Yau Ma Tei processed 5,000 advance contract renewals and 7,400 regular renewals in August 2008. Despite the availability of online booking for slots at its five branch offices, the daily quota on the number of applications being processed resulted in overnight queues.
The shore of Yau Ma Tei in 1880 The old shore of Yau Ma Tei in 2008. Yau Ma Tei was a village in Kowloon. It was mentioned that a Chinese burial ground was assigned at a mile northeast of a village of Yau-ma-Tee at 2 December 1871. [2] The name Yau Ma Tei is not thought to pre-date British rule. However, Kwun Chung is mentioned in many historic ...
Yaumati is the alternative transliteration of Yau Ma Tei. Until the Ferries Ordinance of 1917, there was no regulation set by the government as to who can run a ferry service. After the Ordinance was enacted, no one can operate a ferry service without securing a licence from the government through public tender. [3]
Yaumati was the old name of Yau Ma Tei, which is rarely used today. [1] [unreliable source?] The station was renamed Mong Kok on 31 December 1968 on the grounds that it was actually in Mong Kok District. [2] [3] In 1983, the station was rebuilt. A temporary station was in use just to the south (towards Hung Hom) during reconstruction.
The Yau Ma Tei Tin Hau Temple is visible behind the trees in the background. Yau Ma Tei Community Centre Rest Garden. Yung Shue Tau (Chinese: 榕樹頭) is the public square in front of the Tin Hau Temple in Yau Ma Tei of Kowloon in Hong Kong. The name in Cantonese means banyan tree head, and many banyan trees are still there. [1]
Yaumatei Ferry Pier (Chinese: 油麻地碼頭), also known as Public Square Street Ferry Pier (Chinese: 公眾四方街碼頭) (1924–1933) was a ferry pier at the junction of Public Square Street and Ferry Street (now Prosperous Garden) in Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The seaside outside Ferry Street is now reclaimed. [1]
Yau Ma Tei North (Chinese: 油麻地北) is one of the 19 constituencies in the Yau Tsim Mong District of Hong Kong which was first created in 1982 and recreated in 2015. The constituency loosely covers Yau Ma Tei with the estimated population of 12,817.