Sai Ying Pun

alternative Sei Ying Poon · alternative Sei-ying-poon · alternative Sai Ying Poon · alternative Sy-ing-poon

1. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

   The two schools at Sai Ying-pʻun suffered severely by their removal[.]

   [1878 July 11 [1878 February 8], Frederick Stewart, “EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.”, in China Mail, volume XXXIV, number 4686, →OCLC, page 3, column 5

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   The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.

   2012, Timothy Choy, “Air's Substantiations”, in Kaushik Sunder Rajan, editor, Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123

   Voters wait in line outside a polling station in the Sai Ying Pun district of Hong Kong.

   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

   Sage Ip, a 29-year-old flight attendant who cast her ballot on Sunday in the Sai Ying Pun district, said she voted in the primary because she was worried that she would never get a chance to do so again. “Voting is something that is still within our capacity. We can’t express ourselves at protests anymore.”

   2020 July 13, Austin Ramzy, Elaine Yu, Tiffany May, “Hong Kong Voters Defy Beijing, Endorsing Protest Leaders in Primary”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2020

   Hong Kong’s health department told a briefing that around 47 cases were related to the outbreak at Ursus Fitness, a gym in the city’s trendy Sai Ying Pun district, which is popular with expatriate lawyers, bankers and hedge fund executives.

   2021 March 12, Farah Master, Twinnie Siu, “COVID-19 outbreak at Hong Kong gym sends shivers through expat community”, in Simon Cameron-Moore, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2021, Emerging Markets

   Following the outbreak at the Ursus Fitness gym in Sai Ying Pun, the government announced two ambush lockdowns on Saturday, and another on Sunday, in the Mid-Levels district.

   2021 March 15, Candice Chau, “Covid-19: 2 cases found after almost 3,500 people tested in Mid-Levels ‘ambush’ lockdowns”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 03 Mar 2024, Hong Kong

   Synonyms: SYP