North Point

English Proper noun North Point en area district/Eastern sar/Hong Kong. en 2005 Oliver Lindsay The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune https://archive.org/details/battleforhongkon0000lind/ The History Press 9780750980548 104 https://archive.org/details/battleforhongkon0000lind/page/104/ Colonel Shoji's 230 Regiment was soon in considerable confusion among several concrete pill-boxes half a mile to the west at North Point. en 2014 Kwong Chi Man; Tsoi Yiu Lun The Fall of Hong Kong, December 1941 Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970 Hong Kong University Press 9789888208708 880565979 195 https://books.google.com/books?id=EphFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA195 The British positions at Mount Butler, Mount Parker, Braemar Hill and the urban area of North Point were all under heavy assault. en February 7, 2017 Mike Ives Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170215015557/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/asia/hong-kong-historical-preservation.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Three masked explorers appeared atop an apartment tower in Hong Kong’s North Point district and sent a black drone flying, over a clothesline, until it was buzzing more than 10 stories above the cars, trams and pedestrians on the street below. en August 11, 2019 Mike Ives Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20190811084003/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/world/asia/hong-kong-protest.html 0362-4331 1645522 The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit. en November 24, 2019 Shibani Mahtani; Simon Denyer; Tiffany Liang; Anna Kam Hong Kong’s pro-democracy parties sweep pro-Beijing establishment aside in local elections w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20191124225725/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/record-turnout-in-hong-kong-election-seen-as-a-referendum-on-the-pro-democracy-protest-movement/2019/11/24/31804b00-0df5-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html November 24, 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/record-turnout-in-hong-kong-election-seen-as-a-referendum-on-the-pro-democracy-protest-movement/2019/11/24/31804b00-0df5-11ea-8054-289aef6e38a3_story.html 0190-8286 2269358 World https://archive.ph/ko7dY Even in pro-Beijing strongholds such as North Point, fresh-faced candidates running on an explicitly pro-democracy platform unseated longtime incumbents. en DECEMBER 23, 2019 Kate Lamb; Jessie Pang Young democrats shake up pro-Beijing stronghold in Hong Kong https://web.archive.org/web/20230828102246/https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-protests-northpoint-idINKBN1YS059 28 August 2023 https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-protests-northpoint-idINKBN1YS059 w:Reuters Top News Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point has long been known as one of the “reddest” – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong. Synonyms now usually synonymous en Tsat Tsz Mui Descendants 1 zh 北角 - Translations area in Hong Kong Chinese: Cantonese: yue 北角 Further reading North Point