Mui Wo
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Cantonese 梅窩／梅窝 (mui4 wo1).
Proper noun[edit]
Mui Wo
- A town in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
- 2012, Timothy Choy, “Air's Substantiations”, in Kaushik Sunder Rajan, editor, Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics, and Governance in Global Markets[1], Duke University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 123:
- The winter of poor air had also forced my partner, Zamira, and me to relocate from our apartment in Sai Ying Pun, an aging urban district in Western Hong Kong where we had been living since arriving in the city, to a flat in a village house in Mui Wo, a rural town on the coast of Lantau Island.
- 2018 October 22, Jennifer Creery, “In Pictures: Mui Wo residents take to the beach in protest of Lantau reclamation plan”, in Hong Kong Free Press[2], archived from the original on 26 February 2024, Hong Kong:
- Residents of Mui Wo on Lantau Island took to Silvermine Bay Beach on Sunday to protest land reclamation plans, saying that the project will damage the environment and line the pockets of developers. […]
At 6am on Sunday, 17 Mui Wo residents gathered on the beach and held up a banner reading: “Oppose the East Lantau Metropolis plan.” A joint demonstration was also held the same day on Lamma Island and Sai Wan, in support of Mui Wo residents.
- 2019 November 22, Ilaria Maria Sala, “After the Protests: How Will Hong Kong Vote?”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, Opinion[4]:
- To reach Mui Wo, a small town on Lantau Island, you take a ferry from central Hong Kong, and after a 30-minute ride arrive at a small square with a car park and bus stops blackened by fumes.
- A rural committee in Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong.