Tai Po

alternative Taipo

1. An area and town in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

   On Friday, police found body parts in an apartment near Tai Po, in Hong Kong’s outlying New Territories.

   2023 February 26, Joyce Lau, “Ex-husband’s relatives charged in Hong Kong model’s slaying”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2023, Asia

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   Although there is very little information in either their written or oral records about how Ho Chung was settled, it is interesting that the immigrant Wai-Pun was discriminated against in Tai Po, a market town dominated by Cantonese, and that his son moved to Cheung Shue Tan, a large Hakka village, two kilometers southeast of Tai Po.

   1981, C. Fred Blake, “Development of Sai Kung Society: 1842–1872”, in Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town (Asian Studies at Hawaii), number 27, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23

2. A district of Hong Kong.

   A 19-year-old was left seriously wounded after being attacked near the “Lennon Wall” pro-democracy message board in Tai Po on Saturday afternoon.[…] Police said the case was classified as wounding, and was under investigation by the District Investigation Team of Tai Po District.

   2019 October 19, Holmes Chan, “19-year-old stabbed in neck and stomach at Tai Po ‘Lennon Wall’ as assailant declares Hong Kong is ‘part of China’”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2021, Hong Kong

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   It was after dark on a Tuesday evening in December 2017 when the vans pulled onto Island House Lane, a placid side street of residential complexes and community garden plots in the suburban Tai Po district.[…] The pangolin’s value has increased with its rarity — the shipment seized in Tai Po had a street value of around $300,000.

   2019 February 12, Charles Homans, “Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2019

3. A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.