Word: kowloon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They line up at the side of warehouse no. 1 and carry their possessions on their backs and heads. From here, they will be taken by double-decker bus or truck to one of eight residential camps operating in Kowloon. And of course, these are the lucky ones. For every refugee that makes it this far, experts estimate that five have died along...
...exchange for all they took from China, the English gave the Chinese people opium. British ships would anchor off Kowloon or slip up the forbidden coast and run the drug ashore with small launches. In the late 1830s, the famous Commissioner Lin Tse-hsu launched an effective campaign to end this illegal trade. A death penalty for opium dealing was extended to foreigners and Lin sent an urgent plea to England...
...Hong Kong three days of torrential rains-26 inches in all, the heaviest downpour in 83 years-triggered a series of landslides that killed at least 100 people and left another 71 missing. The highest death toll was recorded in the Kowloon quarter, across Hong Kong harbor, where slides swept away a squatters' village. Three buildings on Hong Kong's Victoria Peak, where many of the colony's most expensive residential areas are situated, were also destroyed. One twelve-story building, with all its lights burning, seemed to tilt slowly before it plunged down the hillside like...
...Kowloon, Hong Kong...