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14-411: Amoy Gardens comprises 19 blocks, lettered A to S, with heights ranging from 30 to 40 floors. The eight blocks A-H are 33 storeys/105 m high, and situated on a podium 14 m high, which houses a commercial centre. These eight blocks have eight flats per floor arranged in a cruciform shape. Each arm of the cruciform contains two apartments. There is a shopping arcade (Amoy Plaza) as well as a food square within

28-591: Is a manufacturer of cooking sauces and condiments in Hong Kong . Its products, which now include foodstuffs such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating in a microwave oven , are sold around the world. It was acquired in 2018 by CITIC Capital , a subsidiary of the CITIC Group . Its former factory site in Ngau Tau Kok was sold in the 1970s and has since been turned into an apartment complex called

42-453: Is represented as p . Students attending The Chinese University of Hong Kong 's New-Asia Yale-in-China Chinese Language Center are taught using Yale romanization. Some enthusiasts employ Yale romanisation to explore writing Cantonese as an alphabetic language . Modern Cantonese has up to seven phonemic tones. Cantonese Yale represents these tones using a combination of diacritics and the letter h . Traditional Chinese linguistics treats

56-1209: The Amoy Gardens . Amoy ( 廈門 ) is an English romanisation of the Min Nan pronunciation of the name of the city in Fujian province, China known in Mandarin as Xiamen . In 1908, Tao Fa, the predecessor of the company, was founded in Xiamen for producing soy sauce and soy milk . In 1928, Amoy was set up in Hong Kong. In a 1947 advertisement, the company was named as Amoy Canning Corporation, Ltd. ( Chinese : 香港淘化大同公司 ; Cantonese Yale : Hēunggóng Tòufa Daaihtùng Gūngsī ) with factory in Ngau Tau Kok and head office at Bonham Strand in Sheung Wan . In 1977, Sime Darby group acquired 50% of Amoy Canning. In 1980, Hang Lung Development acquired 63% of Amoy Canning Corp. (HK) Ltd In 1983, fifty percent of Amoy Food

70-592: The Yale romanization of Mandarin , it is still widely used in books and dictionaries, especially for foreign learners of Cantonese . It shares some similarities with Hanyu Pinyin in that unvoiced, unaspirated consonants are represented by letters traditionally used in English and most other European languages to represent voiced sounds. For example, [p] is represented as b in Yale, whereas its aspirated counterpart, [pʰ]

84-513: The Amoy Gardens estate. The site was purchased by Amoy Canning in the 1920s for use as a factory. Amoy put the site of approximately 222,560 square feet (20,677 m) up for auction in March 1977, intending to move their manufacturing operations elsewhere in stages. The auction failed as the reserve price was not reached. Subsequently, Hang Lung Development signed an agreement to purchase

98-401: The factors that contributed to the rapid spread of SARS in that complex. The estate was decontaminated and the residents were able to return. Later, the complex was retrofitted with an auxiliary floor drainage system that included fresh water interlocks to prevent regurgitation of sewer gases. According to the 2016 by-census , Amoy Gardens had a population of 10,721. The median age was 37.7 and

112-491: The final phase was completed in 1987. Toward the end of March 2003, an outbreak of SARS occurred among residents of Amoy Gardens. By 15 April 2003, there had been a total of 321 cases of SARS in the estate. A concentration of cases was recorded in block E, accounting for 41% of the cumulative total. Block C (15%), block B (13%) and block D (13%) recorded the second, third and fourth highest incidence of SARS infections. The other cases (18%) were scattered in 11 other blocks. Most of

126-447: The initial 107 patients from Block E lived in flats that were vertically arranged. All residents were subsequently moved to Lei Yue Mun and Lady MacLehose Holiday Village for isolation. In mid-2003, authorities found that the design of bathroom floor drains lacked a replenishment system to keep the water traps filled, allowing virus-laden aerosols to seep into bathrooms, exacerbated by the draw of bathroom exhaust fans. These were among

140-766: The majority of residents (95.6 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household comprised 2.4 persons. The median monthly household income of all households was HK$ 34,000. Amoy Gardens is served by the Kowloon Bay station of the MTR metro system. In addition, the estate is served by numerous bus routes. Amoy Gardens is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 46. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government primary schools are in this net. Amoy Food Amoy Food Limited

154-475: The site in April 1977 for about HK$ 200 million. Under the agreement, Amoy would take a share of the profits from the site's redevelopment. The estate was built in four phases. The construction contract for the estate's first phase, comprising seven residential blocks (blocks A-G) and retail space, was awarded to Hong Kong contractor Shui On Construction on 18 October 1979. The first phase was completed in 1981, while

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168-425: The tones in syllables ending with a stop consonant as separate " entering tones ". Cantonese Yale follows modern linguistic conventions in treating these the same as the high-flat, mid-flat and low-flat tones, respectively. Sample transcription of one of the 300 Tang Poems by Meng Haoran : Note concerning the jì in the last line of the poem that it is pronounced as high flat here because immediately followed by

182-656: Was acquired by Pillsbury . In 1987, a manufacturing plant was set up in Tai Po Industrial Estate in Tai Po . In 1988, it was reported to be the largest soy sauce maker in the area, producing 6,000 tonnes a year. In 1991, Amoy became wholly owned by the French dairy products company Danone . On 12 January 2006, Danone sold the company to Ajinomoto of Japan. In 2013, Amoy frozen food's factory in China

196-552: Was moved to Tai Po Industrial Estate in Hong Kong. In 2018, Ajinomoto sold the company to CITIC Group of China. In Europe, Amoy products are distributed by Kraft Heinz . This article about a Hong Kong company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Yale romanization of Cantonese The Yale romanization of Cantonese was developed by Yale scholar Gerard P. Kok for his and Parker Po-fei Huang's textbook Speak Cantonese initially circulated in looseleaf form in 1952 but later published in 1958. Unlike

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