Meaning of Pok Fu Lam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village in Southern district, Hong Kong.
2. An area of Southern district, Hong Kong.

Examples

“Battersea Power Station is among a host of world monuments that have been placed on a list of threatened heritage. It is one of 67 cultural sites in 41 countries deemed to be at risk from the forces of nature and social, political and economic change. They range from Venice to the little-known village of Pok Fu Lam in Hong Kong, and include sites dating from prehistory to the twentieth century.”

“When social worker Benjamin Sin Chiu-hang was posted to the Caritas office in Pok Fu Lam Village, he knew he had arrived somewhere special. “The people living there were somehow different from the people elsewhere in Hong Kong,” he says. “It’s a horizontal community, very vernacular and organic.””

“The organiser of another fire dragon dance performance, which traditionally took place in Pok Fu Lam Village on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, said on the same radio programme that they were yet to receive a formal reply from the government as to whether the event can go ahead.”

“Hong Kong Cyberport Management, landlord of the government-backed flagship hi-tech facility in Pok Fu Lam, will invest HK$100 million ($12.9 million) in the next three years to make the Cyperport an Asia-Pacific information and communications technology hub, said Chairman Paul Chow.”

“When they bought a penthouse in Pok Fu Lam, a leafy neighborhood on the western edge of Hong Kong island, Will Toye and Nicole Schoeni wanted to make the most of their roof, which they use frequently for entertaining.”

“An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.”

“The woman went to the waterfall inside a park in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island on Sunday night with the suspect, but he rushed off alone in a taxi after staying there for about half an hour, police said.”

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