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Lam Tin
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English
,+ Resite Village
Etymology
From en yue 藍田.
Proper noun
1
en area district/Kwun Tong region/Kowloon sar/Hong Kong.
en 1977 Frank Leeming Kwuntong Street Studies in Hong Kong: Localities in a Chinese City East Asian Social Science Monographs https://archive.org/details/streetstudiesinh0000leem/ w:Oxford University Press 0195803396 3664022 127 https://archive.org/details/streetstudiesinh0000leem/page/127/ Sau Mau Ping and Lam Tin are not the only contributors to the growth of the hinterland of Kwuntong. In all, government housing projects on the east side of Kowloon Bay, counting only those to the south of Ping Shek, and not including Kwuntong itself, have a total population of about 400,000 people; Kwuntong itself contributes about 80,000 in government or Housing Society housing, and about 150,000 in private accommodation.⁶ All these people live in an area which is in some sense tributary to Kwuntong. In the resettlement estates like Lam Tin whose communications with Kowloon are necessarily through Kwuntong, most people visit Kowloon only exceptionally, at holiday times and for special reasons.
en 1 FEBRUARY 2021 Candice Chau In Pictures: Hong Kong imposes third overnight Covid-19 lockdown, no cases found after 400 tested https://archive.ph/fb893 26 October 2021 https://hongkongfp.com/2021/02/01/in-pictures-hong-kong-imposes-third-overnight-covid-19-lockdown-no-cases-found-after-400-tested/ w:Hong Kong Free Press The Hong Kong government imposed a third “ambush-style” lockdown at a housing estate in Lam Tin on Sunday night, as two building blocks recorded 15 coronavirus infections in 12 days.
en March 24, 2023 Kanis Leung Hong Kong traffic accident leaves 87 people injured w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230421151146/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:db3-tz1JY1AJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/24/hong-kong-bus-traffic-accident/120a7990-ca1b-11ed-9cc5-a58a4f6d84cd_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/24/hong-kong-bus-traffic-accident/120a7990-ca1b-11ed-9cc5-a58a4f6d84cd_story.html 0190-8286 2269358 World https://archive.is/OKijo The accident occurred after midday near a tunnel entrance on Tseung Kwan O Road in Lam Tin, a residential area in Kowloon. A taxi carried out a “careless lane change” and the other vehicles could not stop in time, causing the collision, senior police inspector Lee Pok-kit said.
en
en village of rural committee/Tsing Yi district/Kwai Tsing region/New Territories sar/Hong Kong.
Synonyms
village en Lam Tin Tsuen
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 藍田
See also
en Lantian
Further reading
Lam Tin