Tseung Kwan O en · PROPN
Etymology
From Cantonese 將軍澳 (zoeng¹ gwan¹ ou³).
Meanings
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An area and town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
On Sunday, thousands of demonstrators had dressed in black and marched peacefully in the town of Tseung Kwan O.
2019 August 5, “Hong Kong leader warns city in a 'very dangerous situation'”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019, News:Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.
2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Sinosphere:Participants chanted slogans against the reclamation project as they marched in the rain with banners in the eastern district of Tseung Kwan O, where the project is slated to be built.
2023 March 26, Jessie Pang, Xie Yu, James Pomfret, “Hong Kong police keep tight tabs on first authorised protest in years”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 26 Mar 2023, Asia Pacific:At Sunday’s rally, local environmentalists and residents in the Tseung Kwan O neighborhood in the New Territories demonstrated against the construction of six facilities that they say could be intrusive and bring nuisance to the community. They held signs that read, “No to constructing a cement factory and refuse collection point!”
2023 March 27, Theodora Yu, “Hong Kong sees first protest in three years — under strict controls”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2023:Separately, a recently completed consultancy study has recommended the provision of 22 ha of land in the southeastern part of Hong Kong at Tseung Kwan O for deep waterfront industries, high value-added chemical processing, and manufacturing of bulk chemical storage facilities.
1996, Yip Chi Wai, “Hong Kong”, in Developing Supporting Industries in Asia-Pacific, Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86:Suzette Foo, a senior superintendent of the Hong Kong Police Force, said earlier this week that police officers had fired 44 rounds of tear gas, 11 rubber bullets, three beanbag rounds and one sponge grenade during operations in the Tseung Kwan O district near where Mr. Chow fell.
2019 November 7, Austin Ramzy, Ezra Cheung, Elaine Yu, “Hong Kong Student Dies From Fall After Police Clash With Protesters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2019, Asia Pacific:
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A bay in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
9. Port Shelter. Good anchorage for any size of ships. Chiefly useful as being deep close to shore, and divided from Tseung Kwan O by a small neck of land ¼ miles wide.
1899, Commander de Horsey, R.N., Report on the Harbours in Mirs Bay:
Synonyms
Junk Bay (bay in Hong Kong)
Translations (1)
yue 將軍澳 /将军澳 (area in Hong Kong)