* 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.

Hong Kong's principal trading partners remain to be China, United States, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Singapore, and South Korea.

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.

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 Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, TVB and ATV, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).

Under the digital terrestrial television platform, which formally commenced on 31 December 2007, J2 and iNEWS are new channels launched with standard definition, while HD Jade is Hong Kong's One-and-Only 24-hour broadcasting channel in high definition.

Not counting pay television channels, ATV's major competitor is Television Broadcasts Limited, the other terrestrial television station in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, TVB and ATV, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).

* ATV, a terrestrial channel in Hong Kong, made a 30-episode TV series also called Fist of Fury starring Donnie Yen as Chen.

As of 2005, some 54 species of terrestrial mammals have been recorded in Hong Kong.

It also relayed Seputar Indonesia news programme from Indonesian free-to-air terrestrial television channel's RCTI which is also available in Hong Kong.

The primary commercial uses for Bakelite today remain in the area of inexpensive board and tabletop games produced in China, India and Hong Kong.

Nonetheless, Hong Kong has retained considerable autonomy in all other aspects, including economic and commercial relations, and customs control.

In Hong Kong, the group owns and manages approximately of prime commercial space in the Central.

In addition to commercial properties, Hongkong Land also develops residential properties in key cities around the region including Hong Kong, mainland China, Macau and Singapore where its subsidiary MCL Land is a significant property developer.

* 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

Improving technology and increasing control of world markets allowed British traders to develop a commercial chain in which raw cotton fibers were ( at first ) purchased from colonial plantations, processed into cotton cloth in the mills of Lancashire, and then exported on British ships to captive colonial markets in West Africa, India, and China ( via Shanghai and Hong Kong ).

He also made claims regarding ASIS assistance to MI6 in the Falkland conflict, in Hong Kong and in Kuwait for the benefit of British interests ( including commercial interests ) and potentially to the detriment of Australian interests.

In some countries or regions such as the UK, Australia or Hong Kong, the laundry expenses of working-uniform or clothing can be partially deducted or rebated from the personal income tax, if the organization for which the person works does not have a laundry department or an outsourced commercial laundry.

His " slick, commercial " action movies have been panned as " so interchangeable — drugs, sleaze, chuckling supervillainy, and Hong Kong-style effects — that each new project probably starts with white-out on the title page.

Wan Chai is one of the busiest commercial areas in Hong Kong with many small and medium-sized companies.

Trading hours in China, including Hong Kong and Macau special administrative regions, are commercial decisions and not regulated.

* On May 15, 2010, at just before 11: 00am, a Cathay Pacific Airbus A340 commercial flight from Hong Kong was intercepted by two Canadian CF-18 Hornets in response to a bomb threat.

IFC, branded as " ifc ") is an integrated commercial development on the waterfront of Hong Kong's Central District.

Many in Hong Kong cried cronyism, as the Hong Kong Government, under chief executive Tung Chee Hwa, gave away the land to his new high-tech residential and commercial venture called Cyberport.

Wong's fourth movie, Ashes of Time ( 1994 ), released between Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, applied his approach to a star-studded wuxia ( martial arts swordplay ) story ; the desert shoot in Mainland China dragged on for over a year and resulted in one of contemporary Hong Kong cinema's most notorious commercial disasters.

In the 1990s Wong Kar-wai found some commercial success, much critical acclaim, and wide influence on other filmmakers throughout Asia and the world with films such as Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, both set in present day Hong Kong.

In 2001, CNBC Asia introduced localised tickers to audiences in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore and has since kept the ticker on the screen during commercial breaks.

* ( 19 July 2003 )-President Hu Jintao was quoted by Chinese media as stating that: " The Central Government is very concerned with the situation in Hong Kong ... Only by maintaining Hong Kong's social stability, can a good commercial environment be safeguarded and can Hong Kong's advantages as an international finance, trade and transport center be maintained.

International offices were established in South Korea, Hong Kong, and the United States under the SNK NeoGeo name for commercial, and later, consumer gaming distribution.

Somewhat like Mui's early attempts, many mainland Chinese artists often begin with some commercial success in Hong Kong or Taiwan and then attempt to re-introduce themselves into mainland China as part of the gangtai culture.

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.