Tai Po

Proper noun

Tai Po

1. An area and town in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • Although there is very little information in either their written or oral records about how Ho Chung was settled, it is interesting that the immigrant Wai-Pun was discriminated against in Tai Po, a market town dominated by Cantonese, and that his son moved to Cheung Shue Tan, a large Hakka village...1981, C. Fred Blake, “Development of Sai Kung Society: 1842–1872”, in Ethnic Groups and Social Change in a Chinese Market Town (Asian Studies at Hawaii), number 27, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN...
   • On Friday, police found body parts in an apartment near Tai Po, in Hong Kong’s outlying New Territories.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 Feb 2023, Asia
2. A district of Hong Kong.
   • 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 February 12, Charles Homans, “Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2019
3. A rural committee in Tai Po district, New Territories, Hong Kong.