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* Hong Kong's skyscrapers in comparison
The map also shows Hong Kong's maritime boundaries.
Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and monsoonal with cool dry winters and hot wet summers.
Hong Kong's terrain is hilly and mountainous with steep slopes.
Due to Hong Kong's nearly 150-year colonial history that saw the stationing of English, Indians and Russians among other ethnic groups as civil servants or traders.
The Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitutional document, was approved in March 1990 by National People's Congress of the PRC.
Donald Tsang described the appointments as a milestone in the development of Hong Kong's political appointment system.
Hong Kong is a favorable destination especially for international firms and firms from Mainland China to be listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange from Hong Kong's highly internationalized and modernized financial industry along with its capital market in Asia, its size, regulations and available financial tools are comparable to London and New York.
Hong Kong's gross domestic product, between 1961 and 1997, has grown 180 times while per capita GDP rose by 87 times.
Since the 1997 handover Hong Kong's economic future became far more exposed to the challenges of economic globalisation competition directly from mainland China.
Communications in Hong Kong includes a wide-ranging and sophisticated network of radio, television, telephone, Internet, and related online services, reflecting Hong Kong's thriving commerce and international importance.
The production of Hong Kong's soap drama, comedy series and variety shows have reached mass audiences throughout the Chinese-speaking world.
Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, ATV and TVB, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).
The Peak Tram connects Central, Hong Kong's central business district, with the Victoria Peak.
They are jointly operated by Hong Kong's MTR Corporation and the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China.
Hong Kong's constitutional document, the Basic Law, for example, specifies the Chief Executive as the head of the special administrative region, in addition to his role as the head of government.
Upon completion, Hopewell Centre surpassed Jardine House as Hong Kong's tallest building.
The proposed site in Hong Kong's Central District for the tower was less than ideal ; a tangle of highways lined it on three sides.
* 1998 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
The name of Yee Wo Street in Hong Kong's East Point and Causeway Bay Districts comes from Jardine's Chinese name " Ewo " whilst other locations associated with the company include Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon-day Gun.

Hong and principal
* George Smith ( bishop ) ( 1815 – 1871 ), 2nd principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, 1849 – 1864
Under the Basic Law the Chief Executive is the chief representative of people of Hong Kong and is the head of the government of Hong Kong, whose powers and functions include leading the government, implementing the law, signing bills and budgets passed by the Legislative Council, deciding on government policies, advising appointment and dismissal principal officials of the Government of Hong Kong to the Central People's Government, appointing judges and holders of certain public offices and to pardon or commute sentences.
Kwai Chung is the home of the principal commercial cargo handling area of Hong Kong, the Kwai Chung Container Terminal, one of the largest and busiest port facilities in the world.
Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
From 1999 to 2002 she was the principal Hong Kong Economic and Trade Representative in Tokyo, Japan.
Under the Chief Executive of Hong Kong as President, the Executive Council comprises 15 principal officials ( ministers ) and 14 non-official members.
He was a Council Member of the Open University of Hong Kong, a non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission, and the Supervisor of Pui Kiu Middle School, where he formerly served as the principal.
During his latter years Brown remained in his home but was cared for by a network of friends, including Surinder Punjya ( Later the principal of The Nesbitt Centre, Hong Kong ), Gunnie Moberg, and Renée Simm.
Full front page colour photographs of her have appeared as advertisements in several Chinese language newspapers ; Minute-long advertisements for the development have been aired on primetime television in Hong Kong with Hawkins as the principal subject.
Since 1973, he has taught in the Holy Spirit Seminary College of Hong Kong-1976 to 1978 of Macao Salesian School ( Instituto Salesiano ) ( 澳門慈幼中學 ) as principal ; In 1978, he became the Provincial Superior of Salesians ( which includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan ), then resigned in 1983.
It links the principal urban areas of Hong Kong to Hong Kong International Airport and the associated AsiaWorld-Expo exhibition and convention centre.
During the 1960s and ' 70s, Garnethill became the principal centre of Scotland's Chinese community, with Cantonese speaking immigrants from Hong Kong settling in the area.
Through that alliance he both gained control of the whole Thai-Burma border area from Mae Hong Son to Mae Sai and became one of the principal figures in opium smuggling in the Golden Triangle.
Heng Boey Hong, former principal of Nanyang Primary School.
The High block once housed Hong Kong's principal public library, until a new Central library was opened in 2001 ; the Hong Kong art gallery ( which became the Hong Kong Art Museum in 1969 ) began life there on the tenth and eleventh floors.
Western classical music was, on the other hand, the principal focus amongst British Hong Kongers with the Sino-British Orchestra being established in 1895.
In Hong Kong, James Legge, the principal of the Anglo-Chinese College invited Wang Tao to stay at the London Mission Society hostel and to assist him in the translation of The Thirteen Chinese Classics.
* ordinarily resident in Hong Kong, and the residential address in his application for registration is his only or principal residence in Hong Kong ;

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At present, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices under the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in countries that are the major trading partners of Hong Kong, including Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and the European Union.
One of the original Hong Kong trading houses or Hongs that date back to Imperial China, as of December 2010, 41 % of the company's profits were still earned in China.
After China ceded Hong Kong to the British in 1842, Macau's position as a major regional trading center declined further still because larger ships were drawn to the deep water port of Victoria Harbor.
It allowed the opening of major five major Chinese ports, granted extraterritoriality to foreigners and their activities in China, indemnification for the opium destroyed and completed the formal acquisition of the island of Hong Kong, which had been officially taken over as a trading and military base since 26 January 1841, though it had already been used years earlier as a transhipment point.
Trade with China, especially in the illegal opium, grew, and so did the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co, which was already known as the Princely Hong for being the largest British trading firm in East Asia.
In Australia, the rights to the Magnavox brand are not owned by Philips but by Mistral Ltd, a Hong Kong trading company that uses it to sell audio / video equipment of a different make.
Iranian long-distance merchants from Fars developed marketing networks for these commodities, establishing trading houses in Bombay, Calcutta, Port Said, Istanbul and even Hong Kong.
Morgan Stanley managing director Du Jun was convicted of insider trading after a criminal trial in Hong Kong.
Later, the island became an important trading post for the British, long before they became interested in Hong Kong Island.
This 415-metre-tall building, currently Hong Kong's second tallest, is quoted as having 88 storeys and 22 high-ceiling trading floors to qualify as being extremely auspicious in Chinese culture.
Hong Kong held a vital position in protecting British trading interests in South China.
In the last decade of the 19th century increasing diplomatic and trade activity by France in Kwangtung ( now Guangdong ) Province and the granting of a concession to Belgian interests to construct a railway from Peking ( now Beijing ) to Hankow ( later extended to Canton ( now Guangzhou )), led to British diplomatic and commercial concerns about protecting Hong Kong as the major trading port for South China.
The British Government extracted a number of railway concessions from the Chinese Government for the British & Chinese Corporation, a joint venture formed in 1898 between the trading company of Jardine Matheson & Co and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
A former Yaohan department store in Macau is operating under the trading name New Yaohan ( 新八佰伴 ), operated by Yaohan International Company Limited in Hong Kong which is locally owned and no longer has a connection with the Wada family.
Tai-Pan is a Cantonese term for the leader of a Hong, a western trading company operating in China or Hong Kong in the 19th century.
When Hong Kong was established as a free trading port in 1841, there was no local currency in everyday circulation.
Mainland China was the most important trading partner, but commerce amounting to a few million dollars was also conducted with France, Britain, and with the United States through a Hong Kong intermediary.
Markets where program trading was not prevalent, such as Australia and Hong Kong, would not have declined as well, if program trading was the cause.
In 1970, TD became first Canadian bank to make a substantial investment in commercial banking in Hong Kong and by the end of the decade TD's role in international lending and money market trading was supported by operations in almost every corner of the globe.
In the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong ( and some parts of the United States ), the phrase trading as ( abbreviated t / a ) is used.

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