Meaning of Sau Mau Ping | Babel Free

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An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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“Mr Wong, 80, who witnessed the building of the temples - Tai Sing Temple, the Temple of Guan Yin and the Shing Wong Temple - said the location on Anderson Road in Sau Mau Ping, Kwun Tong, was decided by the gods.”

“There can be few more ghastly deaths than to suffocate under a mudslide or be swept over the balcony into the abyss below when your block of flats suddenly topples over like a house of cards. Both happened that night. Police said 78 squatter huts were buried at Sau Mau Ping.”

“The erection of such new temples and statues can be seen as the manipulation of mythological material to accommodate the economic and political goals of the current government. For example, an event much touted on tourist sites on the Internet is a ritual performed at the temples at Sau Mau Ping in Kowloon, Hong Kong in honor of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, the subject of a reading in this chapter.”

“More than 60 prosecutions have been brought by Hong Kong’s Labour Department against the contractor, subcontractors and individuals involved in a fatal crane collapse that occurred at a building site in Sau Mau Ping last September. Three were killed and six were injured in the incident.”

“A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.”

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