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Ho Man Tin
Ho Man Tin is a mostly residential area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, part of the Kowloon City District. History Section of lists of villages in the book ' (literally ''The History of Bao'an County, Xin'an County'') published in twenty fourth year of Jiaqing Emperor, Jiaqing era (A.D. 1819) did not have any record of Ho Man Tin. The original Ho Man Tin was quite different from today's Ho Man Tin. It was located in the heart of nowaday Mong Kok. With cultivated lands, it was surrounded in the north by Argyle Street, Hong Kong, Argyle Street, west by Coronation Road (present-day Nathan Road, Hong Kong, Nathan Road), and east by Quarry Hill, Hong Kong, Quarry Hill, No. 12 Hill and Tai Shek Kwu (present-day Kadoorie Hill). Southeast from its original location is Fo Pang and to the south Mong Kok. Streams from those hills in the east offered water for cultivation, the latter reflected in the area's name last Chinese character, i.e. ''tin'', , which means field. The "Ho" () and "Man" () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kowloon Hospital
Kowloon Hospital is a general care hospital located in Kowloon City District, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The complex was built on land between Argyle Street and Prince Edward Road. The hospital used to be an acute hospital with accident and emergency service. It was later converted to a chronic hospital to provide extended supportive care to patients from Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The hospital has specialist services in psychiatry, rehabilitation, respiratory medicine and geriatrics. The respiratory medicine unit provides teaching opportunities for medical students from the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of .... With 1,281 beds, the hospital was the first to establish a rehabilitation unit in Hong Kong. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Children Secondary School
Scientia Secondary School () is a secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was formerly called Workers' Children Secondary School () and, before that, Mongkok Workers' Children School (). History Establishment In 1946 the missionary bishop Ronald Hall proposed to various trade unions that they should band together to form a society for the education of workers' children. The "Education Advancement Society for the Children of Workers in Hongkong and Kowloon" was thus formed. The society opened seven schools in 1947, at Mong Kok, Wan Chai, Apliu Street (Sham Shui Po), Hing Man Street (Shau Kei Wan), Sai Wan Ho, Jaffe Road, and Portland Street. The Mongkok school was housed in government premises and had 556 students in April 1947. More schools opened in 1948. These schools were often not in permanent premises but in rented flats. The government was still working to rehabilitate schools ruined during the Japanese occupation of World War II. A few years after opening, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shun Tak Fraternal Association Seaward Woo College
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Pui Ching Middle School (Hong Kong)
Pui Ching Middle School ( zh, t=香港培正中學) is a Baptist secondary school in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Founded in 1889, it currently has sister schools in Macau and Guangzhou. History The Hong Kong branch was established in 1933 in Ho Man Tin. Initially, only primary school education was offered; a junior high school division using Chinese as medium of instruction was established in 1938, a senior high division was established in 1940. The school was suspended during Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. Students and staff went to Macau and mainland China. In 1945, the school moved back to a temporary site in Kowloon Tong and in 1946, the school moved back to Ho Man Tin. In 1950, the school was renamed from a Hong Kong branch of the Canton school to the present name. In 1952, a new extension on the land donated by Hong Kong Government was built and completed in September 1953. The premises are located at Pui Ching Road which was named after the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentecostal School
Pentecostal School () is an Anglo-Chinese secondary school founded by the Kowloon Pentecostal Church in Hong Kong in 1973. The school first started off as a non-profit making private school and then became fully subsidized in 1982. The school logo is a flying pigeon symbolizing the Holy Spirit, and with the school motto "Love, Faith and Hope" beneath it. Location Pentecostal School is located at 14 Perth Street in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It consists of two main buildings, one hall, one sheltered sports area beneath the hall, two basketball courts and a badminton court. Education Pentecostal School is divided into seven forms, with students aged from 13 to 18. From Forms one to three, students are taught the compulsory subjects of Chinese, English, Mathematics and general science. Forms four and forms five prepare students for the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE). Upon qualifying for the A-Level The A-level (Advanced Level) is a subject-bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kowloon Junior School
The English Schools Foundation (ESF) manages 22 schools in Hong Kong: five secondary schools, nine primary schools, two "all through" schools, five kindergartens and one school for children with special needs. Kindergartens *Abacus International Kindergarten *Hillside International Kindergarten *Tsing Yi Kindergarten *Tung Chung Kindergarten *Wu Kai Sha Kindergarten Primary schools * Beacon Hill School * Bradbury School * Clearwater Bay School * Glenealy School * Kennedy School * Kowloon Junior School * Peak School * Quarry Bay School * Sha Tin Junior School Secondary schools * Island School * King George V School * Sha Tin College * South Island School *West Island School All through schools ''Note: these schools are run as private independent schools with no subvention from the Hong Kong Government.'' * Discovery College * Renaissance College Special needs schools *Jockey Club Sarah Roe School References External linksEnglish Schools Foundation {{International school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King George V School, Hong Kong
King George V School (KGV, pronounced "K-G-Five") is a coeducational international secondary independent school of the English Schools Foundation (ESF), located in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong. The school has more than 1,900 students and is one of the oldest schools in Hong Kong. Students take IGCSEs/GCSEs followed by the International Baccalaureate Diploma or the British BTEC programme. There is a Learning Enhancement Centre (LEC) for students with learning difficulties. The campus has an area of . The school is one of three ESF secondary schools in Kowloon and the New Territories, the others being Sha Tin College and Renaissance College. History Pre-WWII period KGV is the oldest of all schools in the English Schools Foundation. It first opened in 1894 on Nathan Road, and originally catered for the children of British people living in Kowloon. At the time, the school occupied just one small building. It was destroyed in a typhoon in 1896, and Kowloon College opened in its place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Metropolitan University
Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU, previously known as the Open University of Hong Kong) is a public university in Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is the only self-financing university set up by the Hong Kong government. The university opened in 1989 as the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong and gained university status in 1997 as the Open University of Hong Kong, focused on distance learning. It began to offer full-time programmes in 2001 and was renamed to Metropolitan University in 2021. HKMU has five schools and more than 13,700 students on its full-time programmes. The current president is Professor Lam Kwan Sing. History Early development The Hong Kong government established the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong (OLI) in May 1989 as the city's first tertiary education institution to provide distance learning. It was created to satisfy greater demand for education and re-training of working adults. Students did not need to satisfy any academic require ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong Housing Authority
The Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) is the main provider of public housing in Hong Kong. It was established in April 1973 under the Housing Ordinance and is an government agency, agency of the Government of Hong Kong. In the same year, the Resettlement Department and the Building Section of the Urban Services Department were merged to form the Housing Department, which acts as the Housing Authority's executive body. History The modern Housing Authority was founded in 1973. In 2005, most Housing Authority-owned shopping centres and car parks were controversially divested to The Link REIT. A citywide scandal erupted in 2015 after 2015 Hong Kong heavy metal in drinking water incidents, heavy metals were found in the water supply of some housing estates, schools, and private residential buildings. The contamination was first identified at Public housing estates in the Kai Tak development area#Kai Ching Estate, Kai Ching Estate, opened in 2013. A task force found that the contam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kowloon Public Library
The Kowloon Public Library () is a public library located in Ho Man Tin, Hong Kong. It was previously known as the Kowloon Central Library (). It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), and is one of the major public libraries in Hong Kong. The 12-storey building comprises about of floor space. History The first public library in Kowloon was the Waterloo Road Library, opened 1965. It was replaced when the first phase of the then-Kowloon Central Library opened on 16 November 1984, housed in the first purpose-built library building in the territory. The second phase was opened by Lady Youde, wife of then-Governor A governor is an politician, administrative leader and head of a polity or Region#Political regions, political region, in some cases, such as governor-general, governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the ... Sir Edward Youde, on 9 September 1985. This event is marked by a plaque at the ground lev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterloo Hill
Waterloo Road Hill () or Black Rock Hill is a hill near Ho Man Tin in Hong Kong. It is a quiet residential district. It is named from Waterloo Road, which is a major road in Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat .... History On 24 August 1967, Lam Bun was on his way to work, men posing as road maintenance workers stopped his vehicle and blocked his car doors and doused Lam and his cousin with petrol. Education * New Method College * Yu Chun Keung Memorial College References Mountains, peaks and hills of Hong Kong {{HongKong-mountain-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
