Since the 1997 handover Hong Kong's economic future became far more exposed to the challenges of economic globalisation competition directly from mainland China.

Since 2006, Warner Bros operated a joint venture with China Film Group Corporation and HG to form Warner China Film HG to produce films in Hong Kong and China, including Connected, which is a remake of the 2004 thriller film Cellular, they have co-produced many other Chinese films as well.

Since 2002 Smale is a Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago ; starting August 1, 2009, he is also a Distinguished University Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.

Since the return of Hong Kong and Macau to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and 1999, respectively, the two territories have retained their legal, political, and economic systems.

Since 1997 Vietnam has been connected by two gateways: one in Hanoi which connects with Hong Kong and Australia, and the other in Ho Chi Minh City, which connects with the United States by Sprint.

Since that time, however, China ( Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong ) has been the leading issuer, raising $ 73 billion ( almost double the amount of money raised on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ combined ) up to the end of November 2011.

Since the 1930s, the Baak Doi label heaquartered in Shanghai had been published under the EMI banner and since then, EMI had also been the dominant label in the cantopop market in Hong Kong until the genre's decline in the mid 1980s.

Since mainland China's economic reforms led by Deng Xiaoping land reforms have also played a key role in the development of the People's Republic of China, with the re-emergence of rich property developers in urban areas ( though as in Hong Kong, land in China is not privately owned but leased from the state, typically on very long terms that allow substantial opportunity for private speculative gain ).

Since the late 1980s, McDonald's in Hong Kong has offered a Teriyaki sandwich dubbed the Shogun Burger, where the teriyaki sauce is a coating on the burger patty.

Since 1994, Hong Kong district board elections are further sub-divided into smaller districts.

Since then, and until 1989 the PRC translated " Chinese Taipei " as " Zhongguo Taipei " ( simplified chinese: 中国台北, traditional chinese: 中國臺北, hanyu pinyin: Zhōngguó Táiběi ), similar to " Zhongguo Hong Kong ", connoting that Taipei is a part of the Chinese state.

Since the manufacturing sector of Hong Kong is in decline, many factories have been torn down and commercial buildings are being constructed to replace them.

Since the return, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong now exercises the power to grant pardons and commute penalties under section 12 of article 48 Basic Law of Hong Kong.

Since Hong Taiji felt compassion for the king, he mercifully sent the king back to the capital and rapidly withdrew the army without doing harm to the people.

Since Korea still displayed disobedient behavior, Hong Taiji commenced the first Manchu invasion of Korea in 1627.

Since the facility was built in 2001, it has managed to reduce the amount of E. coli in the water by 99 percent, while other pollutants are reduced by 70-80 percent, allowing coral to return to Victoria Harbour and made Hong Kong's beaches safe for swimming again.

The Royal Navy in Hong Kong Since 1841.

Since the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong, the popularity of horse racing has declined possibly due to economic conditions in the region ; the HKJC's revenue has substantially declined in recent years.

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Since teenagers in Hong Kong are interested in local entertainment and show business, Easy Finder puts a lot of emphasis on entertainment news.

Since the Hong Kong government does not have its own television station, its agency Radio Television Hong Kong ( RTHK ) requires the two domestic free television stations to broadcast their programmes and advertisements.

Since the 2002 / 2003 academic year, TVB Pearl has been in partnership with SCOLAR ( The Standing Committee on Language Education and Research ) in a pilot project to promote language education in Hong Kong.

Since people are usually not willing to perform complicated procedures to apply for visas before visiting another place, the Individual Visit Scheme helps encourage visitors to Hong Kong.

Since King Kong was seen as the bigger draw ( at the time, he was even more popular in Japan than Godzilla ), and since Godzilla was still a villain at this point in the series, it led to the decision to not only give King Kong top billing, but also to present him as the winner of the climactic fight.

Since their introduction, Koopa Troopas have become the iconic enemy of the Mario franchise, often referenced in popular culture relating to the series: in 2007's The Simpsons Game, a Koopa Troopa appears as the apparent bride of the eccentric geek Professor Frink after Bart and Lisa rescue him from Donkey Kong in a parody of the popular arcade game.

Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.

Since then, he has filmed several other Jackson-directed films, including King Kong and The Lovely Bones, and will also film the upcoming The Hobbit films directed by Jackson.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

Since 1954 the Negro's desire for social justice has led to an ironically anarchical rebellion.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Since then nothing has happened to save the life of Pope.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.

Since the Industrial Revolution, when factories emerged, this classical pattern has been followed.

Since Af are linearly independent functions and the exponential function has no zeros, these R functions Af, form a basis for the space of solutions.

Since C is rational, this correspondence has K coincidences, each of which implies a line of the pencil which meets its image.

Since the course, one member has lost her husband.

Since her bereavement this individual has reported to the writer on numerous occasions about how helpful the class discussions were to her in this adjustment crisis.

Since on the one hand school desegregation has come in Virginia hand-in-glove with pupil assignment, shall we support the plan??

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.

Since 1948 the working headquarters has been the Department of Geology and Mineralogy.

Since the removal force is a function of coating thickness, a differential transformer pickup has been incorporated into the instrument to accurately measure film thickness.

Since the mid 1950s, when urethane foam first made its appearance in the American market, growth has been little short of fantastic.

Since interviewing is the basic therapeutic and diagnostic instrument of modern psychiatry, the recording of interviews for playbacks and study has been a boost of Redstone proportions in new research and training.

Since 1949, the St. Louis club has been below on May 1 just four times.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.