Tai Po

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Etymology

From Cantonese 大埔 (daai6 bou3).

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Tai Po

  1. An area and town in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 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 February 2023, Asia‎:
      On Friday, police found body parts in an apartment near Tai Po, in Hong Kong’s outlying New Territories.
  2. A district of Hong Kong.
    • 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 2019-02-12‎:
      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 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 September 2021, 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.
  3. A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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