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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.
The heads of four yeuks formed the Tsuen Wan Security Council (荃灣安全局) to secure the area of Tsuen Wan. The area was historically occupied by villages, which were relocated to Wo Yi Hop Road near Lei Muk Shue Estate in Kwai Chung and called Shek Wai Kok Sun Village ( 石圍角新村 ; 'Shek Wai Kok New Village'), since the construction ...
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 ...
Tsuen Wan West (Chinese: 荃灣西約) is situated at the west of Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, along Castle Peak Road between Yau Kom Tau and Chai Wan Kok. There are mainly private residential estates, including Belvedere Garden, Bayview Garden, Greenview Court, the Panorama and Serenade Cove. The largest one is Belvedere Gardens.
On 7 January 1964, the Chinese Character Reform Committee submitted a "Request for Instructions on the Simplification of Chinese Characters" to the State Council, mentioning that "due to the lack of clarity on analogy simplification in the original Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (汉字简化方案), there is some disagreement and confusion in the application field of publication”.
Luk Yeung Galleria (Chinese: 綠楊坊), formally known as Luk Yeung Sun Chuen Mall, is one of the largest shopping centres in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, located in Luk Yeung Sun Chuen, above MTR Tsuen Wan station. It has a total area of 16,500 square metres (178,000 sq ft). [1]
[1] [2] After Tsuen Wan was gazetted as a satellite town in 1961, the first proposal to build footbridges in Tsuen Wan appeared in a special report in the Overseas Chinese Daily News on 29 October 1962, which discussed the need to build footbridges in satellite towns. The first footbridge in Tsuen Wan was completed in 1979.
Tsuen Wan District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. It is located in the New Territories and is served by the Tsuen Wan line of the MTR metro system. Its area is 60.7 km 2. [2] Its residents, who mostly live in Tsuen Wan Town, enjoy the highest income in the New Territories. [citation needed] Part of the Tsuen Wan New Town is located in ...