Sham Shui Po

alternative Shamshuipo

1. An area of Sham Shui Po district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

   On Au’s rooftop in the gentrifying neighborhood of Sham Shui Po, the metal hut traps heat inside the 300-square-foot space.

   2022 September 12, Theodora Yu, Louise Delmotte, “Climate change in Hong Kong worsens housing crisis for city’s poor”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2022, World

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   Another proposal some years ago was for a line to be constructed from Canton to Sham-shui-po near the Cosmopolitan Docks in British territory, on the mainland opposite Hongkong.

   [1900, J. Dyer Ball, “Railways”, in Things Chinese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with China, 3rd edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 506

   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

   Sham Shui Po might be one of Hong Kong’s poorest neighbourhoods but it has a rich immigrant history and a glut of fantastic street-food joints.

   2021 August 18, Lee Cobaj, “Best things to do in Hong Kong”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2021

   Once largely insulated from the coronavirus pandemic, Hong Kong is facing a citywide outbreak, with businesses buckling and some losing patience with the government's "zero COVID" policies. In the cluster of working-class districts in nearby Sham Shui Po, some residential blocks and public housing estates have been sealed off, crowds in malls and street markets have thinned, and once teeming diners known as dai pai dongs and stalls selling knick-knacks are quieter after dark.

   2022 February 18, James Pomfret, Joyce Zhou, “Hong Kong working-class district reels as COVID runs rampant”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Karishma Singh, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2022, Asia Pacific

   Lee, a Catholic, grew up poor in Sham Shui Po -- one of wealthy Hong Kong's working-class districts -- but made his way to an elite boys' school run by Jesuits.

   2022 July 1, “John Lee: the former Hong Kong cop Beijing trusts is sworn in”, in France 24, sourced from Hong Kong (AFP), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022

2. A district of Hong Kong.

   Synonyms: SSP