According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( 1984 ) and the Basic Law, Hong Kong will retain its political, economic, and judicial systems and unique way of life and continue to participate in international agreements and organisations as a dependent territory for at least 50 years after retrocession.

According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.

According to legend, the name was chosen because Hong Taiji's father, Nurhaci, had believed himself to be a reincarnation of the bodhisattva Manjusri.

According to Xijing Zaji ( 西京雜記 ) by Hong Ge, Qi had a maid named Jia Peilan ( 賈佩蘭 ) who escaped and later married to a commoner named Duan Ru ( 段儒 ) from Fufeng Prefecture ( west of present-day Xi ' an, Shaanxi ).

According to that the territories comprise the mainland area north of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as over 200 outlying Islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong.

According to the 2001 census, the population of the New Territories was 3, 343, 046, representing 49. 8 % of Hong Kong's total population.

According to one view, the name Abakhai is wrong: Hong Taiji never mentioned under this name in Manchu and Chinese sources ; it was a mistake done by Russian Sinologist G. V.

According to another view, Hong Taiji was mistakenly, referred to as Abahai in Western scholarly literature, the result of a confusion with Nurhaci's favorite concubine.

According to half historian and half writer Jin Yong, Hong Taiji had the broad and wise views of Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song, Kublai Khan, the Hongwu Emperor, and the Yongle Emperor.

According to Octopus Cards Limited, operator of the Octopus card system, there are more than 20 million cards in circulation, nearly three times the population of Hong Kong.

According to the Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations in September 2002, the daily circulation of the newspaper was 302, 197 copies, making it the third largest daily newspaper in Hong Kong.

According to QS World University Rankings 2011 / 2012, it was at 22nd in the world and the best in Hong Kong as well as Asia ..

According to a recent study published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research in 2008, PolyU ranks as the fourth most productive institution among all Asian countries in publishing research papers in the area of Operations Research and Management Science, topping other universities in Hong Kong.

According to a Media Credibility Survey conducted by Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006, Ming Pao was selected as the most credible Chinese language newspaper.

According to the Reporters Without Borders, Hong Kong enjoys " real press freedom " and ranks the second in Asia after Japan in the Press Freedom Index.

According to the company's financial figures from 2010, Tsingtao saw a 6. 6 % year on year revenue increase from sales to Hong Kong and other overseas markets

According to the Crime Ordinance, a seditious intention is an intention to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the person of government, to excite inhabitants of Hong Kong to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in Hong Kong as by law established, to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffection against the administration of justice in Hong Kong, to raise discontent or disaffection amongst inhabitants of Hong Kong, to promote feelings of ill-will and enmity between different classes of the population of Hong Kong, to incite persons to violence, or to counsel disobedience to law or to any lawful order.

According to the March 2003 ACNielsen RARD Report, Next Magazine had the second highest readership among weekly magazines in Hong Kong after Sudden Weekly, its sister entertainment news magazine under the same company.

According to a survey conducted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2001, the Hong Kong Economic Journal as well as Ming Pao were regarded as the newspapers with the highest degree of credibility in Hong Kong.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

According to this game, Peach was classified as lighter than Yoshi and Bowser was classified heavier than Donkey Kong, although most Mario games classify Peach being heavier than Yoshi while Bowser is lighter than Donkey Kong.

According to Fay Wray, who played Ann Darrow in 1933's King Kong, Harlow was the original choice to play the screaming blonde heroine.

According to The Challenge of Hong Kong ’ s Reintegration With China, a book written by Ming K. Chan, Wen Wei Po is a " mouthpiece " of the PRC government.

According to Riotur, the Tourism Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro, there are 63 hotels and 10 hostels in Copacabana.

According to the World Tourism Organization, international tourism receipts in 2002 were only US $ 73 million ( compared with US $ 730 million for Tanzania ).

According the USDA, Cooperative State, Education and Extension Service, " Tourism is becoming increasingly important to the U. S. economy.

According to the Henry County Tourism Bureau, " Colona is named after its founding family, Patriarch: Eric Colona, Matriarch: Natasha Colona, Children: Abdul Colona, and Elaine Colona.

) According to a roster developed by the Council of Tourism and Sport of Andalusia on 27 March 2003, there are officially six traditional or touristic comarcas ( provincial areas or counties ) in the Province of Cádiz:

According to World Travel and Tourism Council, India will be a tourism hot-spot from 2009 to 2018, having the highest 10-year growth potential.

According to the „ Statistical Report on Tourism in Laos 2008 “ by the „ Lao National Tourism Administration “, the number of tourists has increased from approximately 18. 600 to 102. 000 from 2001 to 2008.

According to Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Reports, Germany is rated as one of the safest travel destinations worldwide.

According to the World Tourism Organization, tourists are people who " travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from within the place visited ".

According to the Glossary of Tourism Terms, jungle tours have become a major component of green tourism in tropical destinations and are a relatively recent phenomenon of Western international tourism.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

According to the Board of Governors, the Federal Reserve is independent within government in that " its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government.

According to the U. S. National Transportation Safety Board, in 2005 general aviation in the United States ( excluding charter ) suffered 1. 31 fatal accidents for every 100, 000 hours of flying in that country, compared to 0. 016 for scheduled airline flights.

According to the Kenya Roads Board, Kenya has of roads with all but unpaved.

According to the Federal Board of Revenue's 2006-2007 year book, tax and customs units in Karachi were responsible for 46. 75 % of direct taxes, 33. 65 % of federal excise tax, and 23. 38 % of domestic sales tax.

According to Robin Blackburn, " The decline of CND by late 1961, however, deprived the New Left of much of its momentum as a movement, and uncertainties and divisions within the Board of the journal led to the transfer of the Review to a younger and less experienced group in 1962.

According to Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, President of the Board which recommended its formation, " The College is concerned with grand strategy and the utilization of the national resources necessary to implement that strategy ... Its graduates will exercise a great influence on the formulation of national and foreign policy in both peace and war ...."

According to the data of the Maritime Board ( Morskaya Kollegiya ) of the Russian Government for 2004, 136. 6 million tons of cargo have been carried that year over Russia's inland waterways, the total cargo transportation volume being 87, 556. 5 million ton-km.

According to the government's Economic Planning Board, the population density will be 530 people per square kilometer by 2023, the year the population is expected to stabilize.

According to the Australian Classification Board media release, the DVD was passed due to " the inclusion of 176 minutes of additional material which provided a context to the feature film.

According to the Board Chair, " with any charity created after 9 / 11, the farther you get away from the event, the more difficult it is to raise funds.

According to Dern, who ran twice as a Natural Law candidate for U. S. Senate and once for the Hartland Township Board of Trustees, the party will appear on the 2012 presidential ballot ticket In August 2012, the party nominated former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson for president.

According to one report, no operations have been carried out since 2000, although the Victorian Psychosurgery Review Board dealt with 3 applications between 2006 and 2008.

According to a report of the Louisiana Board of Regents published in December 2011, Louisiana Tech has the second-highest graduation rate among the fourteen public universities in the state of Louisiana.

According to the Board of Trustees, Colonel Rutgers was honored because he epitomized Christian values.

According to the Dauphin County Board of Elections, in 2008 Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Dauphin County since 1964, receiving 9. 0 % more of the vote than John McCain.

* Marie-Monique Robin: " The World According to Monsanto, A Film by Marie-Monique Robin " Image & Compagnie – ARTE France – Productions Thalie – National Film Board of Canada – WDR 2008

According to William D. Murray, who was a charter member of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA ) when it incorporated on February 8, 1910, the first " Troop " to form in Missouri was formed by an Englishman in Sedalia, MO sometime in 1908 or 1909.

According to the ICMA, the " Board found that Mr. Walker violated Tenets 2, 3, and 4 of the ICMA Code of Ethics.

According to a test report conducted by the United States Navy's Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board ( WSESRB ) established in the wake of the tragic 1967 USS Forrestal fire, the cooking off time for a Mk 83 is approximately 8 minutes 40 seconds.

According to the Toronto Board of Trade, in 2010, Toronto is ranked as the most congested city of 19 surveyed cities, with an average commute time of 80 minutes.

According to the project manager Selja Flink of the National Board of Antiquities, it was most probably the object noticed in the ground-penetrating radar investigations.

According to the USDA National Organic Standards Board ( NOSB ), organic agriculture is defined as " an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity.

According to Stefan Steinbrener, former chairman of an EPO Technical Board of Appeal, this means that:

According to the 2007 edition of the College Board ’ s Trend in College Pricing Report published October 2007: " College costs continue to rise and federal student aid has shown slower growth when adjusted for inflation, while textbooks, as a percentage of total college costs, have remained steady at about 5 percent.