Pok Fu Lam

Proper noun

Pok Fu Lam

1. A village in Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 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...2013 October 9, “Battersea Power Station ‘at risk’”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
   • 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.”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...

   Synonyms:

   PFL, Pok Fu Lam Tsuen

2. An area of Southern district, Hong Kong.
   • 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.2010 December 15, “PRESS DIGEST - Hong Kong - Dec 16”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2023, CONSUMER GOODS AND RETAIL
   • 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.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