Yau Tong

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Etymology[edit]

From Cantonese 油塘 (jau4 tong4).

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Yau Tong

  1. An area in Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    • 2011, Alvin Y. So, “The Development of Post-Modernist Social Movements”, in Jeffrey Broadbent, Vicky Brockman, editors, East Asian Social Movements: Power, Protest, and Change in a Dynamic Region‎[1] (Social Sciences / Sociology), Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 370:
      When angry construction workers seeking unpaid wages stormed a site office in Yau Tong in July 2002, their violent clash with the police set alarm bells ringing in the corridors of power.
    • 2017 March 30, Mike Ives, “As Hong Kong Ponders Its Future Under Beijing, Politics Infuses Its Art”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-10, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      “When people see my work, they can respond because they can really feel it,” she said on a recent evening in Yau Tong, an industrial area in eastern Kowloon. “They feel that they’ve been understood.”
    • 2019 July 11, Joyce Zhou, John Ruwitch, Tyrone Siu, Felix Tam, Vimvam Tong, “Imagine all the Post-its: Hong Kong protesters come together with 'Lennon Walls'”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters‎[4], archived from the original on 11 July 2019, World News‎[5]:
      On Wednesday night, police intervened when note posters scuffled with men trying to remove them in Yau Tong, a working class neighborhood on the eastern side of Kowloon, across the harbor from Hong Kong island.

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