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.

They would not be pleased to have it published back home that they planned a frolic in Paris or Hong Kong at the Treasury's expense.

Then Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, India, Pakistan, Damascus, Beirut, and to Rome, London, and Paris `` to look over wonderful talent ''.

`` Science In Action '', San Francisco's venerable television program, will be seen in Hong Kong this fall in four languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chiuchow and English, according to a tip from Dr. Robert C. Miller.

Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines.

Hong Kong, India and Pakistan have been limiting exports of certain types of textiles to Britain for several years under the `` Lancashire Pact ''.

The Japanese want to increase exports to the U.S. While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong step in and capture an expanding share of the big U.S. market.

Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly.

he wore a brown tweed sports jacket obviously tailored in Hong Kong, and he was of an age that marked him as a lieutenant.

This deprived him of liberty in Hong Kong, but he told Boats McCafferty that Hong Kong was a book he had read before, and the Navy would always bring him there again, some day.

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* Aberdeen, Hong Kong

* Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Hong Kong Anglican Church ( Episcopal ))

Buddha's Birthday is celebrated in April ( here is pictured the Tian Tan Buddha in Hong Kong )

* 1971 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer

* 1936 – Patrick Tse, Hong Kong director

* 1974 – Stephen Fung, Hong Kong actor and director

* 2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer ( b. 1956 )

* 1975 – Teresa Mak, Hong Kong actress

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.

The series did, however, allow her to travel extensively outside of Canada, as she recorded segments for the show in locations such as South Africa ( where she interviewed Nadine Gordimer and Helen Suzman ), and her native Hong Kong.

Unlike the 2003 flights, the 2005 flights did not have to touch down in Hong Kong or Macau, but still must enter its airspace.

Even now, when the United States navy visits Hong Kong, the crews congregate in this area, though their ships no longer land in Wanchai, as they formerly did.

He therefore kept hundreds of back lot carpenters at work creating realistic sets, as he did for fifteenth-century Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ), or with China Seas ( 1935 ), to replicate the harbors of Hong Kong.

Chinese users seem to have fewer objections to Han unification, largely because Unicode did not attempt to unify Simplified Chinese characters ( an invention of the People's Republic of China, and in use among Chinese speakers in the PRC, Singapore, and Malaysia ), with Traditional Chinese characters, as used in Hong Kong, Taiwan ( Big5 ), and, with some differences, more familiar to Korean and Japanese users.

Wong's plan to make a film set primarily in Hong Kong did not simplify matters when it came to the shoot, because the city's appearance was much changed since the 1960s, and Wong's personal nostalgia for the time added to his desire for historical accuracy.

Bảo Đại left shortly afterward since he did not agree with the policies of the Vietminh and went into exile in Hong Kong.

Under British rule, Hong Kong had a number of controversial laws regarding national security, which among other things allowed the Hong Kong government to ban organizations, which it did in regard to both the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang.

Attempts at modernising the area did not become fully committed until the late 1970s, when many new towns were built to accommodate the population growth from urbanized areas of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island.

Hong may have briefly looked over these pamphlets, but did not pay much attention to them at the time.

Chinese who were wealthy did not educate their children in Hong Kong, instead they sent them back to the mainland for traditional Chinese education.

Jurchen-Manchu ( Jurchen and Manchu are simply different stages of the same language ; in fact, the ethnonym " Manchu " did not come about until 1636 when Emperor Hong Taiji decreed that the term would replace " Jurchen ") is the only Tungusic language with a literary form ( in Jurchen script and later the Manchu alphabet ) which dates back to at least the mid-to late-12th century ; as such it is a very important language for the reconstruction of Proto-Tungusic.

In 1973, he did the voice of Goober the Dog on the H-B show Goober and the Ghost Chasers and also guest starred as the rain-making villain on an episode of Hong Kong Phooey.

He subsequently did so, and Crown Prince Hong took the throne as Emperor Xiaowen, while Emperor Xianwen took the title of Taishang Huang ( retired emperor ), although, due to Emperor Xiaowen's young age, Emperor Xianwen continued to be in actual control of important matters.

In 1636, Hong Taiji invaded the Joseon Dynasty ( see the Second Manchu invasion of Korea ), as the latter did not accept that Hong Taiji had become emperor.

China was allowed to continue to keep officials there as long as they did not interfere with the defence of British Hong Kong.

While medical clinics and schools went unregulated, the Hong Kong government did provide some services, such as water supply and mail delivery.

When Hong Taiji declared the new dynasty of Qing in 1636, Korea did not accept it even though the Empire announced a war.

When the Tung Chung Line was constructed, it became necessary to build an interchange so that passengers did not have to go to Hong Kong Island to change lines.

The Chinese did not however receive these new Hong Kong dollars well, and in 1868 the Hong Kong mint was closed down with a loss of $ 440, 000.

Now, however, due to the precession of the equinoxes, the feet of the Great Bear constellation do sink below the horizon from Rome and especially from Athens – so Ursa Major gets to cool her feet and legs in the sea, in spite of Ovid ; however, Ursa Minor ( Arcas ) does remain completely above the horizon, even from latitudes as far south as Honolulu and Hong Kong.

The absolute definition of morality in wuxia is understandably a reaction to the real world where it is not quite so clear what or who is purely good or otherwise, consider the context and the historicity of Hong Kong at the time of Louis Cha's works.

The Chinese were slow to accept unfamiliar coinage and preferred the familiar Mexican dollars, and so the Hong Kong government ceased minting these coins and sold the mint machinery to Japan.

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.

In addition, many citizens of Hong Kong hold citizenships or have current visas in other countries so if the need arises, they can leave Hong Kong at short notice.

Further away from Meixian, the Hong Kong dialect lacks the medial, so whereas Moiyen pronounces the character 光 as, Hong Kong Hakka dialect pronounces it as, which is similar to the Hakka spoken in neighbouring Shenzhen.

In Japan and Hong Kong, when people of Japanese or Hong Kong origin, respectively, write their personal name in the Latin alphabet, it is common to reverse the order of the given and family names for the convenience of Westerners, so that they know which name is the family name for official / formal purposes.

Although the term Little Hong Kong was used a long time ago to describe Manhattan's Chinatown relating to when an influx of Hong Kong immigrants were pouring in at that time and even though not all Cantonese immigrants come from Hong Kong, this portion of Chinatown has heavy Cantonese characteristics, especially with the Standard Cantonese, which is spoken in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China being widely used, so it is in many ways a Little Hong Kong.

In Singapore and urban Hong Kong, land prices are so high that almost the entire population lives in high-rise apartments.

In Hong Kong, many Chinese who grew up under the British occupation adopted English spelling conventions for their names: " Lee " for Li, " Shaw " for Shao, and so forth.

Hong Kong health officials warned that SARS had spread so far domestically and abroad that it was here to stay.

As a theatrical impresario, he took his own touring production ( Intercontinental Entertainment ) to 30 countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Oman and the UAE ( Abu Dhabi and Dubai ) and so provided himself with material for many stories on Just a Minute.

Despite involving many of Hong Kong's top stars, the film's profits had been modest, so Wong was not given the opportunity to follow it up, yet as he moved onto other films, he had always retained the dream of doing so.

In contrast to other countries in which stare decisis gives the power of both final interpretation and adjudication to a supreme court, within the People's Republic of China constitutional and legal interpretation is considered to be a legislative activity rather than a judicial one, and the functions are split so that the NPCSC provides legal interpretations while the Supreme People's Court and the Courts of Final Appeal of Hong Kong and Macau actually decide cases.

Why should Hong Kong people be under any less obligation to do so, or indeed feel uncomfortable in doing so, compared to citizens in other countries?