Meaning of North Point | Babel Free

Definitions

An area of Eastern district, Hong Kong.

Examples

“Colonel Shoji's 230 Regiment was soon in considerable confusion among several concrete pill-boxes half a mile to the west at North Point.”

“The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault.”

“Three masked explorers appeared atop an apartment tower in Hong Kong’s North Point district and sent a black drone flying, over a clothesline, until it was buzzing more than 10 stories above the cars, trams and pedestrians on the street below.”

“The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.”

“Even in pro-Beijing strongholds such as North Point, fresh-faced candidates running on an explicitly pro-democracy platform unseated longtime incumbents.”

“Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point has long been known as one of the “reddest” – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong.”

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