North Point

Colonel Shoji's 230 Regiment was soon in considerable confusion among several concrete pill-boxes half a mile to the west at North Point.

2005, Oliver Lindsay, The Battle For Hong Kong 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune, The History Press, →ISBN, page 104

Three masked explorers appeared atop an apartment tower in Hong Kong’s North Point district and sent a black drone flying, over a clothesline, until it was buzzing more than 10 stories above the cars, trams and pedestrians on the street below.

2017 February 7, Mike Ives, “Using Stealth, and Drones, to Document a Fading Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2017, Asia Pacific

The rally on Sunday in Victoria Park, in the Causeway Bay district, was authorized in advance by the police. But protesters were also expected to begin marching later in the day from Sham Shui Po, a working-class neighborhood on the Kowloon peninsula, across the harbor from North Point. The police rejected their application for a permit.

2019 August 11, Mike Ives, “Hong Kong Protesters Gather Amid Fears of Mob Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2019

Even in pro-Beijing strongholds such as North Point, fresh-faced candidates running on an explicitly pro-democracy platform unseated longtime incumbents.

2019 November 24, Shibani Mahtani, Simon Denyer, Tiffany Liang, Anna Kam, “Hong Kong’s pro-democracy parties sweep pro-Beijing establishment aside in local elections”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2019, World

Densely packed with dilapidated, high-rise apartment blocks looming above bustling neon-lit streets, North Point has long been known as one of the “reddest” – or most pro-Beijing – districts in Hong Kong.

2019 December 23, Kate Lamb, Jessie Pang, “Young democrats shake up pro-Beijing stronghold in Hong Kong”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023, Top News