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Sau Mau Ping
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English
Etymology
From en yue 秀茂坪.
Proper noun
1
en area district/Kwun Tong region/Kowloon sar/Hong Kong.
en 20 March 2006 Andy Cheng Deities have given 40 years of good advice and healing https://web.archive.org/web/20150402161935/https://www.scmp.com/article/541164/deities-have-given-40-years-good-advice-and-healing w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 Hong Kong https://archive.li/HzVOx 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.
en 2007 December Kevin Sinclair Kevin Sinclair (journalist) Top Ten: Stories Tell Me a Story: Forty Years Newspapering in Hong Kong and China https://archive.org/details/tellmestoryforty0000sinc/ SCMP Book Publishing Limited 978-962-17-9400-0 190850934 68 https://archive.org/details/tellmestoryforty0000sinc/page/68/ 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.
en 2017 Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths https://archive.org/details/introductiontomy0000thur_n3w6/ 4th w:Oxford University Press 978-0-19-026298-3 2015020917 946109909 137 https://archive.org/details/introductiontomy0000thur_n3w6/page/137/ 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.
en 7 March 2023 Lea Mok Contractor among 67 prosecutions over Hong Kong construction site crane collapse that killed 3 w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/1DzBo 02 February 2024 https://hongkongfp.com/2023/03/07/contractor-among-67-prosecutions-over-hong-kong-construction-site-crane-collapse-that-killed-3/ Hong Kong 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.
en 5 December 2023 14 people were injured in a two-vehicle collision in Sau Mau Ping The Standard https://web.archive.org/web/20231207203806/https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/211085/14-people-were-injured-in-a-two-vehicle-collision-in-Sau-Mau-Ping https://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news/section/4/211085/14-people-were-injured-in-a-two-vehicle-collision-in-Sau-Mau-Ping December 07, 2023 Local https://archive.ph/TqLdM A rehabus collided with a double-decker bus, injuring at least 14 people in Sau Mau Ping on Tuesday afternoon.
Synonyms
en So Mo Ping, en So Mau Ping
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 秀茂坪
Mandarin: cmn 秀茂坪
Further reading
Sau Mau Ping