Kwun Tong

English

Alternative forms

  • Kwuntong

Etymology

From Cantonese 官塘 (gun1 tong4) or an earlier equivalent.

Proper noun

Kwun Tong

  1. An area of Kwun Tong district, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 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[1], archived from the original on 23 February 2025, World:
      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.
    • 2019 August 24, Raymond Zhong, Steven Lee Myers, “Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas as Protests Turn Violent”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 August 2019, Asia Pacific‎[3]:
      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.
    • 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[4], archived from the original on 15 September 2023:
      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.
    • 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[5], archived from the original on 08 December 2023, World News‎[6]:
      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.

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