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The following is a list of fire stations of the Hong Kong Fire Services. All but one of Hong Kong's fire stations are located in Hong Kong (Shenzhen Bay is located across the border in Shekou, Shenzhen) Hong Kong Command West Division Name Photographs Location Notes/References Kennedy Town Fire Station (堅尼地城消防局) 6 Kennedy Town New Praya, Kennedy Town Aberdeen Fire Station ...
The history of the Hong Kong Fire Service began in the Government Gazette dated 9 May 1868. Charles May became the first Superintendent of the Fire Brigade. At the time, the Fire Department was part of the Hong Kong Police Force. It had a total strength of 62 with a supplement of 100 Chinese volunteers. The fire department expanded to 140 ...
Following the appointment of district officers in urban Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Kowloon since 1968, [7] the District Administration Scheme was implemented in 1982 with the establishment of a district board and a district management committee in each of the districts in Hong Kong, including Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and aforementioned the New ...
The centre of Lok Fu contains the Lok Fu Place shopping centre. The shopping mall was renovated in 2008-9 [7] while the market was renovated in 2013. [8] The anchor tenant of the shopping mall is the Japanese department store Uny. [9] Besides the shopping mall, Lok Fu primarily consists of public housing estates: Lok Fu Estate; Wang Tau Hom Estate
Sui Fai Factory Estate (穗輝工廠大廈) in Fo Tan Fo Tan Nullah The Palazzo and Fo Tan Railway House, next to Fo Tan station. Fo Tan (Chinese: 火炭; Cantonese Yale: Fótaan) is an area of Sha Tin District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed as a light industrial area, but this activity has declined markedly in recent years.
A fire in a residential building in Hong Kong's bustling Kowloon district disrupted morning rush hour traffic on Wednesday, authorities said, in a rare incident in the global financial hub that ...
The Cantonese they speak is substantially different from the Hong Kong version considered standard. In China, people in many regions learn Mandarin in school while speaking another dialect at home.
The name Shek Wu Hui appeared in Qing dynasty Jiaqing Year's Xin'an Xianzhi (Gazetteer of the Xin'an County), [3] with footnote: "舊誌天崗，今移石湖", literally means the market town was relocated from another place Tin Gong (Chinese: 天崗; Jyutping: tin1 gong1; Cantonese Yale: tīn gōng) to Shek Wu (Chinese: 石湖; Jyutping: sek6 wu4; Cantonese Yale: sehk wùh; lit. 'stone lake ...