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This short street includes, at its southern end, a flight of granite steps that were built between 1875 and 1889; [1] [a] these lead up to Ice House Street.The street was named in honour of brothers George and Frederick Duddell, who were landowners in the early days of the colony, having emigrated from Macau after the British Empire annexed Hong Kong Island in 1841. [3]
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [191] [192] [193] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [194]
Gage Street (Chinese: 結志街; Cantonese Yale: git3 ji3 gaai1) is a street in Central, Hong Kong. It is on the lower hill and between the junction with Cochrane Street and Lyndhurst Terrace, Graham Street and Aberdeen Street. The street is mainly a market. It is named after William Hall Gage.
The requirement to locate servers in China has created a problem for Google in China, which insists on controlling its data and servers.In 2009, Google’s mainland servers experienced major cyberattacks (presumably from the Chinese government), and in March 2010, Google re-directed its search engine from Google.cn in mainland China to Google.com.hk in Hong Kong.
Kowloon Peninsula. Map of Convention of Peking. Great Britain took Kowloon Peninsula from China in 1860 under Convention of Peking.The development started from Tsim Sha Tsui, nearest location to the City of Victoria of Hong Kong Island and extended northward, Kwun Chung, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok Tsui, Mong Kok, and Tai Kok Tsui.
No. 1: Hong Kong Police Club, former Central Magistracy; No. 2: Cafe O, Ovolo Hotels; No.s 3-5a: Universal Trade Centre including the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and South-East Asia [3] and the St Luke Cathedral of Hong Kong; No.s 4-8: Philia Lounge; No.s 4-8: G/F La Kasbah (North African Food), 1/F Wild Grass (Western Restaurant)
Aberdeen Street is a border street dividing Sheung Wan and Central on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. [1] It ascends from Queen's Road Central to Caine Road in Mid-Levels. The street is named after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary at the time of the cession of Hong Kong Island to the United Kingdom in 1842. [2]
The area east of Nathan Road, comprising Cameron Road, Granville Road and Carnarvon Road has been described as having "teeming shops" and likely the main reason that Hong Kong acquired the "shopping paradise" tag, a phrase first put into print in an ironic manner by author Han Suyin, [3] in her 1952 novel A Many-Splendoured Thing.