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Tsing Yi

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From Cantonese 青衣 (cing1 ji1).

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Tsing Yi

  1. An island in Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
    • 1997 January 5, Reuters, “Hong Kong to Build Port At Site of Sunken Liner”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-12-27, Section 1, page 7‎[2]:
      The police have not caught the arsonists who burned the ship off Tsing Yi Island on Jan. 9, 1972. The fire was officially attributed to sabotage.
    • 2018 November 30, Jennifer Creery, “Footage of deadly coach crash emerges, as Hong Kong leader says ‘too early’ to determine cause”, in Hong Kong Free Press[3], archived from the original on 06 October 2024, Hong Kong:
      A coach carrying Cathay Pacific employees to Hong Kong’s airport collided with a stationary taxi on Tsing Sha Highway in Tsing Yi island at around 4.54am, crushing both vehicles.
    • 2018 November 30, “Five dead, 32 injured in Hong Kong coach crash”, in France 24[4], archived from the original on 30 November 2018, Live news‎[5]:
      The back half of the taxi was completely crushed and both sides of the bus were damaged with traces of blood on the outside following the crash on the island of Tsing Yi.
    • 2021, Bridge Engineering Handbook[6], volume 3, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63-35:
      Tsing Ma Bridge (Figure 63.31), a highway-railway bipurpose suspension bridge on the freeway between the new airport and the urban district, connecting the Tsing Yi Island and Mawan Island in Hong Kong, is the world's longest of its kind.
  2. A town in Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  3. A village of Tsing Yi Rural Committee, Kwai Tsing district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
  4. A rural committee in Tsing Yi district, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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