Meaning of So Kon Po | Babel Free

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An area of Wan Chai district, Hong Kong.

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“Not far from here in So Kon Po is the new Hong Kong Stadium, completed in 1994, where the annual International Rugby Sevens tournament in March brings in visitors from all over the world.”

“Miura was cremated in the Japanese crematorium at So Kon Po. A local historian has been in contact with his descendants back in Japan who provided photographs of Miura and his assistants in Hong Kong, and expressed amazement that his grave still existed in the Cemetery.”

“At the end of the year, in recognition of the fact that the villagers of Wong Nai Chung and So Kon Po had nothing to do, the Surveyor General issued a proclamation assuring them that contractors would consider them first 'when employing coolies on government works'.”

“The Race Course Fire Memorial, which is located on the hillside above the present Hong Kong Stadium in So Kon Po near Causeway Bay, was erected in 1922 to commemorate the victims of a disastrous fire which broke out at the Happy Valley Racecourse in February 26, 1918.”

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