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"word": "Kowloon Bay"
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"word": "Kowloon Tong"
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"ref": "1968, Jack M. Potter, Capitalism and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong Kong Village, University of California Press, page 36",
"text": "By the late 1930's some modern factories, built by outside interests and producing such goods as bricks, beer, and chinaware for export abroad, had already appeared in Tsuen Wan, a market town near Kowloon.",
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"ref": "2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Sinosphere",
"text": "Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.",
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"ref": "2019 November 17, “Hong Kong protesters fend off police with arrows, petrol bombs as unrest spreads”, in France 24, sourced from Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-11-17, Asia / Pacific",
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"ref": "2023 March 24, “Hong Kong warehouse fire forces thousands to evacuate”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-03-24, Society",
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"word": "Kln"
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
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"alt": "きゅうりゅう",
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"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "주룽"
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"word": "Kowloon"
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"ref": "2015 January 12, Austin Ramzy, “Firebombs Thrown at Jimmy Lai’s Home and Company in Hong Kong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-15, Sinosphere",
"text": "Next Media said two entryways to its headquarters in Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O neighborhood were hit with firebombs around 1 a.m. Monday. At about the same time, a masked man got out of a car outside Mr. Lai’s home in the Ho Man Tin neighborhood and threw a firebomb at the sidewalk outside the gate. Two cars suspected of being those used in the attacks were later found burning in nearby areas of Kowloon.",
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"text": "Several protesters took up positions on the rooftops of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, armed with bows and arrows, as unrest spread across the territory's central Kowloon district.",
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"ref": "2023 March 24, “Hong Kong warehouse fire forces thousands to evacuate”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2023-03-24, Society",
"text": "Hong Kong authorities evacuated at least 3,400 people from buildings after a fire broke out in a warehouse in the city's Kowloon district on Friday.",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "九龍"
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"code": "yue",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "九龙"
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"word": "九龍"
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"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "九龍"
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"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "九龙"
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"alt": "きゅうりゅう",
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"word": "カオルーン"
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"word": "クーロン"
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"roman": "Gauron",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "ガウロン"
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"roman": "Jiuron",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "ジウロン"
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"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "Jurung",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "주룽"
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"roman": "Koulún",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "Czjulún",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
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"word": "Цзюлу́н"
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"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "kao-lun",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "เกาลูน"
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{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "area of Hong Kong",
"word": "Cửu Long"
}
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"word": "Kowloon"
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