Ho Man Tin

alternative Homantin

1. A residential area of Kowloon City district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

   The plot, in the Kowloon neighbourhood of Ho Man Tin, sold for HK$6.4 million ($823,204) to a company owned by Goldin Financial Holdings Ltd.

   2016 March 2, “Hong Kong residential plot sells for higher price than forecast”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2023, Financials

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   One of my informants (born 1897) was a member of their church from his earliest years and his father was a member before him. The son told me that early in this century the Ho Man Tin area was known as ‘the Christian Valley’, presumably because of the sustained efforts made by members of the Basel Mission.

   1983, James Hayes, “Old British Kowloon”, in The Rural Communities of Hong Kong: Studies and Themes, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 60

   Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.

   2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2022, Sinosphere

   “Forgive me, the book you're reading ... Do you ... did you find it in Hong Kong?” “Yes,” I replied. “At a second-hand place in Ho Man Tin. Have you read it?”

   2016, Claire North, chapter 39, in The Sudden Appearance of Hope, Orbit Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 159–160

   Inspector MacLennan was to be arrested on the morning of 15 January 1980 on eight counts of gross indecency. An arrest party went to his quarters in Ho Man Tin.

   2022, Stuart Wolfendale, “Two Reports”, in More When I Know You Better: The Life of Albert Sanguinetti, 1923–2009, City University of Hong Kong, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 150

   Live rounds were used twice during the 2019 protests and unrest. And in March 2009, Dil Bahadur Limbu – an unarmed Nepalese man – was shot dead by a policeman in Ho Man Tin. The incident caused a public outcry among the South Asian community after a coroner ruled his death was “a lawful killing.”

   2023 January 27, Hillary Leung, “NGO raises questions over ‘racial and cultural insensitivity’ as Filipino man shot by Hong Kong police charged with assault”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2023, Hong Kong