Kwun Tong

alternative Kwuntong

1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
2. A district of Hong Kong.

   The construction of the fountain in the city’s Kwun Tong district went ahead despite the district council passing a motion to halt the project last year.

   2021 April 26, Candice Chau, “Water margins: Hong Kong music fountain with a HK$50 million price tag opens to underwhelmed public”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2023

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   Mr Li's business interests already extend into the strategic Kwun Tong area after he joined Kumagai Gumi, the main Japanese contractor for the second harbour tunnel, and his present partner CITIC, in developing a multi-billion dollar housing complex in Lam Tin.

   1987 February 9 [1987 February 9], Lulu Yu, “PRC, Local Group Plan Further Investment”, in Daily Report: China, number 026, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, p 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, China Hong Kong & Macao, page W 3

   The paper trail left behind by $2 million (1.38 million pounds) stolen from a hacked Ecuadorian bank runs cold in a windowless gamers’ crash pad in a gritty industrial area of Hong Kong. The room, in a former factory in the Kwun Tong district, is the registered address for Jiushun Group Co., Ltd., the firm that received the largest single transfer of the $12 million reported missing from Ecuador's Banco del Austro (BDA) in January 2015.

   2016 June 1, Clare Baldwin, Nathan Layne, Tris Pan, “Insight - Trail in Ecuador cyberheist leads to gamers’ crash pad in Hong Kong”, in David Greising, Kevin Krolicki, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2025, World

   Protesters are expected to return to Hong Kong international airport on Saturday, despite a court ban. Later in the day, protesters are due to march through the city's eastern district of Kwun Tong.

   2019 August 23, “Hong Kong protesters form a 'Baltic chain' across the city”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2019, Politics

   The clashes in the district of Kwun Tong, in eastern Kowloon, were a marked departure from the peaceful, if sometimes tense, gatherings that had taken place over much of the last two weeks.

   2019 August 24, Raymond Zhong, Steven Lee Myers, “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Turn Violent”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2019, Asia Pacific

   During her 38-year tenure, Winnie Poon made history as the first popularly elected female council member in Kwun Tong district and witnessed the councils become more democratic.

   2023 December 7, KANIS LEUNG, “Hong Kong’s new election law thins the candidate pool, giving voters little option in Sunday’s polls”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2023, World News