Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

In the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, a person born on February 29 legally attains the age of 18 on March 1 in the relevant year.

Thus, in England and Wales or in Hong Kong, a person born on February 29, 1996, will have legally reached 18 years old on March 1, 2014.

Fay Wray ( born Vina Fay Wray ; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004 ) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong.

In 1968, Hussain Najadi the Bahraini born banker, acquired the Supramar AG and expanded its operations into Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK, Norway and the US.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917 to Tsuyee Pei and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.

* August 20 – Agnes Chan, Hong Kong born TV personality in Japan

Lee was born in Chinatown, San Francisco on 27 November 1940 to parents from Hong Kong and was raised in Kowloon with his family until his late teens.

Anders was born to U. S. Navy Lt. Arthur F. Anders and Muriel Adams Anders in Hong Kong, and was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second-highest rank, Life Scout.

Ringo Lam Ling-Tung (, Cantonese: Lam Ling-tung ), born in 1955 is a Hong Kong film director, producer and scriptwriter.

He was born in Hong Kong and studied film at York University film school in Toronto.

Sammo Hung ( born Hung Kam Po, 7 January 1952 ) is a Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director, known for his work in many martial arts films and Hong Kong action cinema.

Wang's third daughter, Wenxun, was born in Guangzhou in 1922, and died in 2002 in Hong Kong.

* King Kong Bundy ( born 1957 ) retired American professional wrestler, stand-up comedian and actor.

* Berg Ng ( born 1960 ), Hong Kong actor

*** Martin Lee 李柱銘 / 李柱铭 ( 1938 -; Huiyang, Guangdong ; born in Hong Kong ), Founding chairman, Democratic Party, 1994 – 2002 ; Leading figure of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong

*** Lee Wing Tat 李永達 / 李永达 ( 1955 -; Huiyang, Guangdong ; born in Hong Kong ; Hakka pronunciation: Lee Yun Tat ), Chairman, Democratic Party, 2004 – 2006

*** Tam Yiu Chung 譚耀宗 / 谭耀宗 ( 1949 -; Huiyang, Guangdong ; born in Hong Kong ; Hakka pronunciation: Tham Yau Tsung ), Chairman, Democratic Alliance for Betterment of Hong Kong, the largest pro-Beijing political party in Hong Kong, 2007 -

** Lee Kuan Yew 李光耀 ( 1923 -; Dabu, Guangdong ; born in Singapore ; Hakka pronunciation: Lee Kong Yau ), Founding father of modern Singapore ; Prime Minister of Singapore, his mother Chua ( 蔡 ), is a Min Nan Nyonya 1959-1990

* Adrienne Louise Clarkson ( née Adrienne Louise Poy ) 伍冰枝 ( 1939 -; born in Hong Kong ), First Canadian-Chinese ( and first visible minority ) Governor General of Canada ( 1999 – 2005 )

* Raymond Chow 鄒文懷 / 邹文怀 ( 1929 -; Dabu, Guangdong ; born in Hong Kong ); Founder, Golden Harvest ; Producer who launched the careers of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Tsui Hark

Restaurants specializing in Cantonese, Sichuanese, Hunanese, Northern Chinese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong traditions are widely available, as are more specialized restaurants such as seafood restaurants, Hong Kong-style diners and cafes ( also known as Cha chaan teng ( 茶餐廳 chácāntīng )), dim sum teahouses, and hot pot restaurants.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

They were once used by Chinese mathematicians, and later in Chinese markets, such as those in Hong Kong before the 1990s, but has been gradually supplanted by the Arabic numerals.

In Chinese, he is most often known as " Kongzi " ( 孔子, literally " Master Kong ").

One of the main lineages fled from the Kong ancestral home in Qufu during the Chinese Civil War in the 1940s, and eventually settled in Taiwan.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006.

In late August, 1552, the Santa Cruz reached the Chinese island of Shangchuan, 14 km away from the southern coast of mainland China, near Taishan, Guangdong, 200 km south-west of what later became Hong Kong.

Stained glass church window in Béthanie ( Hong Kong ) | Béthanie, Hong Kong of St Francis Xavier baptizing a Chinese man.

:* UK: Hong Kong, Chinese treaty ports, Irish treaty ports, Singapore

The demographics of Hong Kong mainly consists of ethnic Chinese, making up more than 90 % of the population.

People from Hong Kong generally refer to themselves, in Cantonese, as Hèung Góng Yàhn (); however the term is not restricted to those of Chinese descent.

Furthermore Chinese population were largely unable to learn English due to the lack of proper educational facilities in pre-1970 Hong Kong.

Arguments over this issue seemed to be responsible for a series of Mainland Chinese newspapers commentaries in February 2004 which stated that power over Hong Kong was only fit for " patriots.

However, Hong Kong registered vehicles may apply for secondary mainland Chinese registration plates, and these can be driven across the border to mainland China ; likewise, left-hand drive cars seen in Hong Kong are usually primarily registered in mainland China and carry supplementary Hong Kong registration plates.

Residents of Hong Kong holding licences issued by other Chinese authorities and some foreign countries can get a Hong Kong driving licence exempt from tests if they can adequately show that they obtained their licence while residing in the place concerned ( common proofs are school transcripts or employer's documentation ).

All signage on highways and roads in Hong Kong are bilingual ( traditional Chinese below and English above ).

# Between non-Chinese ethnicities: most non-Chinese ethnic groups came to Hong Kong as traders, civil servants or soldiers in which one's race played a significant role in the determination of class.

Naturalised citizens, residents of Hong Kong, Macao or the People's Republic of China, soldiers and election officials are not eligible.

Taking on the name King Snake ( after a snake known for its immunity to other snakes ' venom, and a habit of eating other snakes ), he found willing soldiers in the Ghost Dragon Chinese youth gang of Macau, Kowloon, and Hong Kong.

As a military property, the PLA Forces Hong Kong Building is heavily guarded by very alert soldiers with machine guns.

Together with Kong Youde ( 孔有德 ) and Geng Zhongming ( 耿仲明 ), Dodo led an army of 200, 000, comprising both Manchu and Han Chinese soldiers, to attack the remnants of Li Zicheng's rebel army, defeating and driving the enemy from Henan to Shaanxi.

However, from 1942 soldiers were sent to Hong Kong ( 23rd Army ), the Philippines ( 14th Army ), Thailand ( 15th Army ), Burma ( 15th Army ), Dutch East Indies ( 16th Army ) and Malaya ( 25th Army ).

HK Museum of Coastal DefenceThe general view of Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, before entering the neo-classicism | neo-classical arch entrance. HK Museum of Coastal DefenceA memorial dedicated to several British soldiers

During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong beginning in 1941, most of the personnel at the school, including then-Headmaster Gerald Goodban were imprisoned, and the school building itself transformed into a military hospital for soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

On June 26, 1950 the Hong Kong Government's Social Welfare Office ( the predecessor of the Social Welfare Department ) settled a considerable number of refugees from China-former Nationalist soldiers and other Kuomintang supporters ( according to official government account, there were 6, 800 of them )-at Rennie's Mill, following the Chinese Civil War.

He also seems to have soldiers placed on countless rooftops and buildings in Hong Kong.

In 1856, Chinese soldiers boarded The Arrow, a Chinese-owned ship registered in Hong Kong flying the British flag and suspected of piracy, smuggling and of being engaged in the opium trade.

Before that, only British soldiers in Hong Kong could use British stamps while other local residents did not have any.

Kong sent Taishi Ci to seek help from Liu Bei, who agreed to lend Taishi 3, 000 soldiers to relief the siege.

The history of Hong Kong Chinese soldiers serving in the British Army can be traced back to the 1880s when Hong Kong locals were employed by the Royal Engineers in the building of barracks and defence work.

In January 1948 the Hong Kong Chinese Training Unit ( HKCTU ) was formed by Hong Kong Chinese who had served in the various artillery and coastal defence units during the Battle of Hong Kong in World War II, with the aim of recruiting and training Hong Kong Chinese soldiers to assist and support the British Garrison in Hong Kong.

Initially the Dragon insignia, which was a Division Sign, had represented the Hong Kong Garrison and all British army soldiers serving in Hong Kong wore a Dragon cloth-badge on their uniform.

The HKMSC offered Hong Kong Chinese soldiers the opportunity to pursue a full career in the British Regular Army up to and including a Queen's Commissioned officer rank of the General List ( HKMSC ).

HKMSC soldiers paid United Kingdom Income Tax ( a Hong Kong Tax-Rate ), via the MoD, to Her Majesty's Income Tax Office ( HMIT ), the same as their British counterparts.