Portal:Hong Kong/Did you know/2


 * ... that Tung Chung Battery (pictured) was built to protect its eponymous bay from pirates, but now faces towards Hong Kong International Airport?
 * ... that 11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara, was lost in a typhoon in 1892?
 * ... that La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle?
 * ... that the rise in the manufacturing of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s was partially due to the United States' embargo on China?
 * ... that Leung Kar Yan, one of the best-known kung fu film stars in Hong Kong action cinema, actually knew no martial arts, and simply copied moves shown to him?