"Tsim Sha Tsui" meaning in English

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          "word": "East Tsim Sha Tsui"
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          "word": "Yau Tsim"
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          "ref": "[1886 December 9, Dr. W. Doberck, “The Law of Storms in the Eastern Seas”, in Nature, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 139, column 1:",
          "text": "This arrangement will, however, be found to be of very little use until the Observatory is placed in direct communication with the telegraph offices in Hong Kong, as the connections between the police stations generally break down in bad weather,[…]\nIn the course of the summer of 1884 the writer invented and started a system of meteorological signals, which continue to be hoisted on the mast beside the time-ball tower at Tsim-sha-tsui.",
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          "ref": "[2003, Fiona Campbell, “Finding a Home”, in Setting Up in Hongkong: A Relocation Guidebook for Expatriates, 6th edition, FDC Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 84:",
          "text": "Think of Tsimshatsui and you think shopping! This is Kowloon's internationally renowned shopping district, where anything can be bought at the right price.",
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          "ref": "2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19, In Transit:",
          "text": "But back to snacks that will test that iron stomach. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central. All these pictures were taken one evening in my neighborhood of Hung Hom.",
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          "text": "Saturday’s march — the ninth weekend of sustained protests — deviated from a route authorized by police and went into the tourist-heavy shopping district of Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, which looks onto Victoria Harbor.[…]\nTsim Sha Tsui is where dozens of Hong Kong’s luxury hotels and malls are located and is popular with foreign tourists.",
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          "ref": "2019 October 20, “Clashes as fresh anti-government protests hit Hong Kong”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 2019-10-20, NEWS:",
          "text": "The march ended in violent exchanges, with Hong Kong police firing tear gas canisters at protesters from inside a police station in Tsim Sha Tsui.",
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          "ref": "2022 November 23, Tom Howard, “New Bond Street rents slip in 2022”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-23, Business:",
          "text": "Shop rents on the upper section of Fifth Avenue in New York remain the dearest in the world, with the average up 7 per cent this year to $2,000 per sq ft. Tsim Sha Tsui, in Hong Kong, is the second most expensive area, with rents of $1,436 per sq ft.",
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