Pok Fu Lam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pokfulam
form: Pok Fu Lum
form: Pokfulum
form: Pok-foo-lum
Etymology: From Cantonese 薄扶林 (bok⁶⁻³ fu⁴⁻⁶ lam⁴).
Senses: examples: text: Battersea Power Station is among a host of world monuments that have been placed on a list of threatened heritage. It is one of 67 cultural sites in 41 countries deemed to be at risk from the forces of nature and social, political and economic change.
They range from Venice to the little-known village of Pok Fu Lam in Hong Kong, and include sites dating from prehistory to the twentieth century.
ref: 2013 October 9, “Battersea Power Station ‘at risk’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
text: When social worker Benjamin Sin Chiu-hang was posted to the Caritas office in Pok Fu Lam Village, he knew he had arrived somewhere special. “The people living there were somehow different from the people elsewhere in Hong Kong,” he says. “It’s a horizontal community, very vernacular and organic.”
ref: 2017 January 11, Christopher Dewolf, “Stories behind Hong Kong districts: Pok Fu Lam Village, once a rural idyll, unbowed amid uncertain future”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Jan 2017, Travel & Leisure:
text: The organiser of another fire dragon dance performance, which traditionally took place in Pok Fu Lam Village on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, said on the same radio programme that they were yet to receive a formal reply from the government as to whether the event can go ahead.
ref: 2022 August 30, Kelly Ho, “Hong Kong’s iconic Tai Hang fire dragon dance cancelled for third consecutive year amid Covid-19”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Hong Kong:
glosses: A village in Southern district, Hong Kong.
examples: text: Hong Kong Cyberport Management, landlord of the government-backed flagship hi-tech facility in Pok Fu Lam, will invest HK$100 million ($12.9 million) in the next three years to make the Cyperport an Asia-Pacific information and communications technology hub, said Chairman Paul Chow.
ref: 2010 December 15, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - Dec 16”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, CONSUMER GOODS AND RETAIL:
text: When they bought a penthouse in Pok Fu Lam, a leafy neighborhood on the western edge of Hong Kong island, Will Toye and Nicole Schoeni wanted to make the most of their roof, which they use frequently for entertaining.
ref: 2011 October 17, Alec Frew McMillan, “Looking for Space in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Oct 2011:
text: An investigation is underway after some HK$800,000 in valuables was stolen from a detached house in Pok Fu Lam.
ref: 2023 June 9, “Burglars grab HK$800,000 in valuables from detached house in Pok Fu Lam”, in The Standard, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, Local:
text: The woman went to the waterfall inside a park in Pok Fu Lam on Hong Kong Island on Sunday night with the suspect, but he rushed off alone in a taxi after staying there for about half an hour, police said.
ref: 2024 October 30, Kanis Leung, “A man is arrested on suspicion of killing a woman in a Hong Kong park”, in AP News, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2024, World News:
glosses: An area of Southern district, Hong Kong.
Synonyms: word: PFL
sense: village
word: Pok Fu Lam Tsuen