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Lok Wah Estate is a public housing estate located in Ngau Tau Kok, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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Ping Shan is a hill in Kwun Tong District, eastern Kowloon that lies between the communities of Ngau Chi Wan, Kowloon Bay and Jordan Valley, Hong Kong. Most of it was the Ping Shan Stone Quarry before redevelopedment into a new neighbourhood with numerous public housing estates and schools. Being unlabelled in most maps, it was often mistaken as part of the forementioned neighbourhoods and Ngau Tau Kok.
Choi Tak Estate, formerly Choi Wan Road Site 2 and Choi Wan Road Site 3A, is a public housing estate in Ping Shan, Kowloon, Hong Kong next to Choi Ying Estate. Choi Tak Estate is a part of the housing development near Jordan Valley. It is developed into two phases and all blocks were completed in 2010 and 2011 respectively.
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- ↑ "Chronicle". www.catholicheritage.org.hk. Retrieved 2020-06-17.