"So Kon Po" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007 June 18, Michael Ingham, Hong Kong: A Cultural History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Not far from here in So Kon Po is the new Hong Kong Stadium, completed in 1994, where the annual International Rugby Sevens tournament in March brings in visitors from all over the world.",
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          "ref": "2011 February 1, Patricia Lim, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 525:",
          "text": "Miura was cremated in the Japanese crematorium at So Kon Po. A local historian has been in contact with his descendants back in Japan who provided photographs of Miura and his assistants in Hong Kong, and expressed amazement that his grave still existed in the Cemetery.",
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          "ref": "2013 December 16, Christopher Munn, Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94:",
          "text": "At the end of the year, in recognition of the fact that the villagers of Wong Nai Chung and So Kon Po had nothing to do, the Surveyor General issued a proclamation assuring them that contractors would consider them first 'when employing coolies on government works'.",
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          "ref": "2015 October 23, Karen Cheung, “Three locations including ‘High Street Haunted House’ declared as monuments”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 2024-01-15, Community & Education, Hong Kong:",
          "text": "The Race Course Fire Memorial, which is located on the hillside above the present Hong Kong Stadium in So Kon Po near Causeway Bay, was erected in 1922 to commemorate the victims of a disastrous fire which broke out at the Happy Valley Racecourse in February 26, 1918.",
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        "An area in Wan Chai district, Hong Kong"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "Sookun Poo"
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          "text": "Not far from here in So Kon Po is the new Hong Kong Stadium, completed in 1994, where the annual International Rugby Sevens tournament in March brings in visitors from all over the world.",
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          "ref": "2011 February 1, Patricia Lim, Forgotten Souls: A Social History of the Hong Kong Cemetery, Hong Kong University Press, →ISBN, page 525:",
          "text": "Miura was cremated in the Japanese crematorium at So Kon Po. A local historian has been in contact with his descendants back in Japan who provided photographs of Miura and his assistants in Hong Kong, and expressed amazement that his grave still existed in the Cemetery.",
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          "text": "At the end of the year, in recognition of the fact that the villagers of Wong Nai Chung and So Kon Po had nothing to do, the Surveyor General issued a proclamation assuring them that contractors would consider them first 'when employing coolies on government works'.",
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          "text": "The Race Course Fire Memorial, which is located on the hillside above the present Hong Kong Stadium in So Kon Po near Causeway Bay, was erected in 1922 to commemorate the victims of a disastrous fire which broke out at the Happy Valley Racecourse in February 26, 1918.",
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