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Sai Ying Pun
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English
Alternative forms
en Sei Ying Poon Sei-ying-poon Sai Ying Poon Sy-ing-poon
Etymology
From en yue 西營盤 West Camp.
Pronunciation
en /saɪ jɪŋ puːn/
Proper noun
1
en area district/Central and Western sar/Hong Kong.
en July 11, 1878 February 8, 1878 Frederick Stewart Frederick Stewart (colonial administrator) EDUCATION IN HONGKONG. w:China Mail XXXIV !4686 https://archive.org/details/NPCM18780711/ 12488501 3 https://archive.org/details/NPCM18780711/page/5/ 5 The two schools at Sai Ying-pʻun suffered severely by their removal[.] on
en 2012 Timothy Choy Kaushik Sunder Rajan Air's Substantiations Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780822348207/ w:Duke University Press 978-0-8223-4820-7 741103656 123 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780822348207/page/123/ The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.
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 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 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.ph/ko7dY Voters wait in line outside a polling station in the Sai Ying Pun district of Hong Kong.
en July 13, 2020 Austin Ramzy; Elaine Yu; Tiffany May Hong Kong Voters Defy Beijing, Endorsing Protest Leaders in Primary w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20200714145358/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/asia/hong-kong-elections-security.html 0362-4331 1645522 https://archive.is/XfEZo Sage Ip, a 29-year-old flight attendant who cast her ballot on Sunday in the Sai Ying Pun district, said she voted in the primary because she was worried that she would never get a chance to do so again. “Voting is something that is still within our capacity. We can’t express ourselves at protests anymore.”
en MARCH 12, 2021 Farah Master; Twinnie Siu COVID-19 outbreak at Hong Kong gym sends shivers through expat community Simon Cameron-Moore https://web.archive.org/web/20210312104548/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hongkong-idUSKBN2B413N w:Reuters Emerging Markets https://archive.li/X4yJs Hong Kong’s health department told a briefing that around 47 cases were related to the outbreak at Ursus Fitness, a gym in the city’s trendy Sai Ying Pun district, which is popular with expatriate lawyers, bankers and hedge fund executives.
en 15 March 2021 Candice Chau Covid-19: 2 cases found after almost 3,500 people tested in Mid-Levels ‘ambush’ lockdowns w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.li/5ReGl 03 March 2024 https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/15/covid-19-2-cases-found-after-almost-3500-people-tested-in-mid-levels-ambush-lockdowns/ Hong Kong Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district.
en March 24, 2021 Zen Soo Hong Kong halts use of Pfizer vaccine, cites defective lids w:AP News https://web.archive.org/web/20210324170451/https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-halts-pfizer-vaccine-defective-lids-a023ea13b2fbb0d8131d6c53f8dd1c28 March 24, 2021 https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-halts-pfizer-vaccine-defective-lids-a023ea13b2fbb0d8131d6c53f8dd1c28 https://archive.ph/xTFsZ Some residents who had appointments to receive the Pfizer shots stood in line outside a community center in the city’s Sai Ying Pun neighborhood at about 10.30 a.m. They eventually left when it became clear the vaccines would not be administered.
Synonyms
area in Hong Kong en SYP
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 西營盤
Further reading
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23889964 1995 Alfred Y.K. Lau The Origin of Sai Ying Pun: A Pirate's Fortification or a British Military Encampment? Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 35 59-73
Sai Ying Pun, Sai Ying Poon