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.

* 1839 – The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

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

The Bank of China Tower ( abbreviated BOC Tower ) is one of the most recognisable skyscrapers in Admiralty, Hong Kong.

It houses the headquarters for the Bank of China ( Hong Kong ) Limited.

Ownership has since been transferred to BOCHK, although the Bank of China has leased back several floors for use by its own operations in Hong Kong.

After the communists took over mainland China, the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao became independent of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, and continued to use the edition issued in Shanghai in 1938 with a revision in 1959.

When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, Hong Kong retained the common law through a reception statute in Chapter I, Article 8 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong:

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.

In ancient China, large canals for river transport were established as far back as the Warring States ( 481 – 221 BC ), the longest one of that period being the Hong Gou ( Canal of the Wild Geese ), which according to the ancient historian Sima Qian connected the old states of Song, Zhang, Chen, Cai, Cao, and Wei.

These scholars have held that, if not for Confucianism's influence on these cultures, many of the people of the East Asia region would not have been able to modernize and industrialize as quickly as Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and even China have done.

In mainland China, wubi ( shape-based ) and pinyin methods such as Sogou Pinyin and Google Pinyin are the most popular ; in Taiwan, Boshiamy, Cangjie, and zhuyin predominate ; and in Hong Kong, Cangjie is most often taught in schools.

Phonetic methods are based on standard pinyin, Zhuyin, and Jyutping in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, respectively.

Vegetarian cuisine is known as zhāicài ("( Buddhist ) vegetarian food ") in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan ; đồ chay in Vietnam ; in Japan ; sachal eumsik (" temple food ") in Korea and by other names in many countries.

The building surpassed the Bank of China Tower as the tallest building in Hong Kong until the completion of 2IFC.

* Clementi Secondary School, Hong Kong SAR, China

The DTMB standard has been adopted in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), including Hong Kong and Macau.

Examples are the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Offices that represent the government of the Republic of China, Somaliland's Representative Offices in London, Addis Ababa, Rome, and Washington, D. C. and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices that represent the government of that territory.

In China it has CFDA approval and over 180 treatment centres have been established in China, Hong Kong, and Korea.

The Cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the Cinema of Hong Kong and the Cinema of Taiwan.

The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

Te-cheng's sister, Kong Demao, lives in mainland China and has written a book about her experiences growing up at the family estate in Qufu.

Falun Gong is practiced by tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands outside China, with the largest communities found in Taiwan and North American cities with large Chinese populations, such as New York and Toronto.

Davidson Black, FRS ( born July 25, 1884, Toronto, Ontario, Canada died March 15, 1934, Beijing, China ) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis ( now Homo erectus pekinensis ).

" Recognition and the Toronto Chinese Community " in Reluctant Adversaries: Canada and the People's Republic of China, 1949-1970.

Specific programs are also run by the association, including those that permit recent graduates to volunteer as mentors to students, and Old Boy reunions are set up around the world by the association's fifteen branches outside of Toronto: Calgary, Halifax, Kingston, London, Montreal, Ottawa, and Vancouver in Canada ; Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco in the United States ; London in the United Kingdom ; Hong Kong in China ; and Budapest in Hungary.

" It acts as Canada's chamber of commerce in China, with offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Chengdu and Shenyang.

* The zoo will bring back the panda exhibit for 2013, under an agreement with China that will have two giant pandas at the Toronto Zoo for five years at a cost of $ 20 million.

In 2012, on a trade mission to China, it was announced that the Toronto Zoo and the Calgary Zoo would be lent 2 pandas from China for the span of 10 years.

Observation sites for Sunday afternoon included Gippsland, Australia ; Sable Island ; Toronto, Canada ; Bermuda ; Bighorn Basin, Wyoming ; Chung Li, China ; and Mammoth Mountain, California.

Beginning in 1996, Kellogg established joint Executive MBA programs with the Recanati Graduate School of Management at Tel Aviv University in Israel ; WHU-Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management in Vallendar, Germany ; the School of Business and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in China ; INSEAD Campuses in France and Singapore ; and the Schulich School of Management at York University in Toronto.

The tour included stops in Toronto Canada, and various cities in mainland China.

Wo Shing Wo was established in 1930, in 1931 it moved its base from China Town in Toronto, Canada to Hong Kong with a goal to establish an anti-British colonial governance and by 1932 was already established in 15 subdivisions in Chinatowns of cities around the world.

Surgical masks were widely used in China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Toronto, Canada during outbreaks of the SARS virus, during the 2007 avian bird flu pandemic in Japan, and more recently in the United States and Mexico City during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak, also known as the swine flu.

Some papers that use Dyer's column regularly include the Japan Times, The Courier ( Ballarat ), the Straits Times ( Singapore ), the South China Morning Post ( Hong Kong ), the Bangkok Post, the Canberra Times, the New Zealand Herald, The Pioneer ( New Delhi ), DNA ( Bombay ), Dawn ( Karachi ), the Tehran Times, Arab News ( Saudi Arabia ), the Jordan Times, Monday Morning ( Beirut ), Egypt Today, the Jerusalem Post, Hurriyet Daily News ( Istanbul ), the Moscow Times, Telegraf ( Kiev ), Lidove Noviny ( Prague ), Adevarul ( Bucharest ), Helsingin Sanomat ( Finland ), Information ( Copenhagen ), NRC Handelsblad ( Rotterdam ), De Standaard ( Brussels ), Zeitpunkt ( Switzerland ), Internazionale ( Rome ), The New Vision ( Uganda ), The Star ( Nairobi ), Zimbabwe Independent, The Citizen ( Johannesburg ), the Cape Times, Le Droit ( Ottawa ), NOW ( Toronto ), La Presse ( Montreal ), Georgia Straight ( Vancouver ), Dawson Creek Daily News ( Dawson Creek ), Fast Forward Magazine ( Calgary ), the Winnipeg Free Press the Jamaica Daily Gleaner, the Trinidad Express, the Barbados Advocate, Buenos Aires Herald, and the Visayan Daily Star ( Philippines ).

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He had joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation while living in Toronto on sabbatical from 1941 to 1944, and campaigned for the party in the 1942 federal by-election in which Joseph Noseworthy won an upset victory, but his membership lapsed when he returned to China.

Based in Toronto, Canada, Sun Life and its partners provide insurance, retirement and investment solutions for individuals and businesses around the world including Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China and Bermuda.

In February 2006, Marchi joined the Toronto law firm of Lang Michener LLP as a senior advisor, and also became President of the Canada China Business Council, and Chairman of the Canadian Services Coalition.

It also has operations in Australia ( Westbus Group, Holroyd Bus Lines, Toronto Bus Services and Kefford Group ) and China.

Parasiuk has remained active in health-care policy research in Canada, having been a Director of Interhealth Canada Ltd. from 1994 to 2002 and Chairman of Interhealth Canada ( China ) Inc. from 1995 to 2003 and Chairman of the Beijing Toronto International Hospital Co-operative Joint Venture from 1996 to 2001, the first-ever private healthcare facility in Beijing, China.

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