Yuen Long

Proper noun

Yuen Long

1. An area and town in Yuen Long district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • On Sunday in Yuen Long, a part of the city near the overland border with China, a pro-Beijing group of a few hundred men dressed in white shirts entered the subway station and pummeled people with sticks and bats, targeting anti-government protesters returning from the march as well as journalists.2019 July 21, Shibani Mahtani, “Police dramatically increase security in Hong Kong as protests continue unabated”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2019...
   • More than 100 men, wearing white T-shirts and wielding sticks and clubs, stormed the station in Yuen Long, on Hong Kong’s northwestern outskirts, and assaulted people, including passengers on a subway car.2021 July 23, Vivian Wang, Joy Dong, Tiffany May, “Men Who Beat Hong Kong Protesters in Mob Attack Are Sentenced to Prison”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jul...
2. A district of Hong Kong.
   • Each district is divided in turn into rural township units, which usually include from ten to thirty villages. In Yuen Long District, these smaller administrative units are called hsiang.1968, Jack M. Potter, “The Setting”, in Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 11
   • The wetland park is situated on the northern tip of Tin Shui Wan^([sic – meaning Tin Shui Wai]) in the Yuen Long District near the Chinese border.2009, Helen Oon, “New Territories”, in Hong Kong (Globetrotters Travel Guide), 1st edition, New Holland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80