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Sai Kung

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From Cantonese 西貢 / 西贡 (sai1 gung3).

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Sai Kung

  1. A town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2021 May 26, Nick Perry, “Earth’s shadow creeps across moon ahead of super blood moon”, in Reuters‎[1], archived from the original on 26 May 2021‎[2]:
      In Hong Kong, Dickson Fu left work early to watch the eclipse from a seaside promenade in the Sai Kung neighborhood.
  2. An area of Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2011 January 18, Jonathan Spollen, “Hong Kong's Forgotten Villages”, in The New York Times‎[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 January 2011‎[4]:
      A number of villages have been given a new lease of life. In the former Hakka village of Sheung Yiu in Sai Kung, the biggest house has been turned into a museum. Originally from mainland China, many Hakkas moved to Hong Kong in the 17th century, where they established fishing and farming villages, mostly in the New Territories.
    • 2025 November 27, Jiang Chuqin, “Village in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung struggles without water for more than 10 days”, in South China Morning Post‎[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 December 2025, Hong Kong/Society‎[6]:
      Eight village houses and some temporary structures in Kai Hang Tun village in Sai Kung lost stable water supply on November 14, and the problem remained unresolved as of Wednesday, the Post learned.
  3. A peninsula in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 2020 August 31, Shibani Mahtani, Nick Aspinwall, Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, “Hong Kong refugees captured at sea spent months plotting daring dash to freedom”, in The Washington Post‎[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 September 2020, Asia & Pacific‎[8]:
      Reaching Taiwan would mean traversing Chinese territorial waters that surround Hong Kong. Hours after they embarked from the verdant Sai Kung Peninsula on the morning of Aug. 23, their speedboat was seized by China's Guangdong coast guard bureau about 50 miles southeast of their departure point.
  4. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 2023 August 1, Kanis Leung, “Hong Kong official vows to mull legal changes after discovery of whale carcass sparked anger”, in AP News‎[9], archived from the original on 01 August 2023, World News‎[10]:
      On Monday, many commenters on social media blamed the whale’s death on sightseers who had flocked to the area over the past two weeks after the whale was discovered in waters off Sai Kung, a district known for its hiking trails and beaches.
  5. A rural committee in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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