In the 2000s, the Hong Kong Harmonica Association ( H. K. H. A.

South Korea had one of the world's fastest growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s, and South Korea is still one of the fastest growing developed countries in the 2000s, along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, the other three members of Asian Tigers.

Some of the influential and popular directors from the 1980s to 2000s include James Cameron ( the first two Terminator films, Aliens, True Lies ); Andrew Davis ( Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege ); John Woo ( Hong Kong action films such as Hard Boiled and US-made English-language films such as Hard Target, Broken Arrow and Face / Off ); John McTiernan ( the first and third Die Hard films, Predator, The Last Action Hero ); Ridley Scott ( Black Rain, Black Hawk Down ); The Wachowski Brothers ( The Matrix trilogy ), Andrzej Bartkowiak ( Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li ), Robert Rodriguez ( Mexico trilogy, From Dusk till Dawn, Machete ) and Michael Bay ( the first two Bad Boys films, The Rock, Transformers trilogy ); Louis Leterrier ( the first two Transporter films, Unleashed ).

Hung found renewed success in Hong Kong film industry in the 2000s, beginning with The Legend of Zu ( 2001 ), the long-awaited sequel to the 1983 hit Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain.

Originally built in the present-day business district of Central in 1844 as officers ' quarters of the Murray Barracks, the building was relocated to the south of Hong Kong Island during the 2000s.

Since the early 2000s, helpers from Indonesia have come to predominate, in and around the western end of the Park, as their numbers in Hong Kong have increased relative to those from the Philippines.

* Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong-Festival Walk ( Opened November 24, 1998 ; Closed in the 2000s ( decade ))

Much of this was related to significant migration from Hong Kong during the 1990s and migration from Mainland China during the 2000s.

It functioned as a police station, dormitory, and prison, and was used as both the Hong Kong Island Regional Police Headquarters and the Central District Police Headquarters until 2000s.

The clones were a more affordable alternative to the more expensive Tamiyas, which gained popularity in the Philippines in the early 2000s ( decade ), as well as several other nations like Indonesia, Malaysia, Italy & Hong Kong.

Yen continued to be active in the Hong Kong cinema in the 2000s, starring as Chu Zhaonan in Tsui Hark's wuxia epic film Seven Swords, and as Ma Kwun in Wilson Yip's brutal crime drama film SPL: Sha Po Lang in 2005.

The mid to late 2000s saw the opening of many galleries in the area including Amelia Johnson Contemporary, Cat Street Galleries, Gallery Exit, Input / Output, Sin Sin Fine Art, and the Hong Kong branches of CAIS, Sundaram Tagore, and Tang Contemporary.

The urban development of the northern part of the town was relatively late ( mid-1980s to 2000s ) comparing to Cheung Ching Estate and Cheung Hong Estate in the south hilly area ( mid-1970s to mid-1980s ).

At the end of the 2000s, the International Commerce Centre ( ICC ), at 484 m ( 1, 588 ft ) high, was the tallest building in Hong Kong.

Both Hong Kong and China were the center of international attention during the early 2000s.

Until the early 2000s, Salem was a sponsor of the Hong Kong Open, an ATP tennis tournament, which attracted a number of top ranking professional players.

In the 2000s ( decade ), Vietnamese cuisine became popular in Hong Kong, and the phrase, which had faded out of memory after the resolution of the refugee problem, resurfaced in an advertising campaign for a Vietnamese restaurant.

England began to recover in the early 2000s and were undefeated in Test matches through the 2004 calendar year.

By the early 2000s ( decade ), however, the university quietly reexamined its position on accreditation as degree mills proliferated and various government bureaucracies, such as law enforcement agencies, began excluding BJU graduates on the grounds that the university did not appear on appropriate federal lists.

Meanwhile, with the advent and popularity of the MP3, sales of CDs began dropping in the 2000s.

Telecom companies, such as Afghan Wireless and Roshan, began boasting rapid increase in cellular phone usage in the mid 2000s.

Traditional cocktails and gin began to make a comeback in the 2000s.

Since the 2000s, guitar amplifiers began having built-in multi-effects units or digital modeling effects.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, HTTPS began to see widespread use for protecting page authenticity on all types of websites, securing accounts and keeping user communications, identity and web browsing private.

In the 2000s Zimbabwe's economy began to deteriorate due to various factors, including mismanagement and corruption, the imposition of sanctions, such as among others the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001, following the switch from Willing Buyer, Willing Seller to Fast Track land reform.

In the late 2000s, Kiribati began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

In the 2000s, the musical film began to rise in popularity once more, with new works such as Moulin Rouge !, Across the Universe, and Enchanted ; film adaptations of stage shows, such as Chicago, 8 Mile, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Fame, Repo!

In the 1990s and 2000s the personal defense weapon, a compact submachine gun-like firearm which can fire armor-piercing, higher-powered ammunition began to replace the machine pistol as a self-defence side arm for artillery crews, tank crews, and helicopter pilots ( for more details, see the section below on military tactics ).

Search engines began dropping support for metadata provided by the element in 1998, and by the early 2000s, most search engines had veered completely away from reliance on elements.

In the mid-to-late 2000s artists and hackers began to rediscover pen plotters as quirky, customizable output devices.

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

Starting in the 2000s ( decade ), genre shows began to offer more prominent female characters.

Beginning in the early 2000s, many ski manufacturers began designing skis and bindings together, creating an integrated binding system.

In the 2000s, Trip-Hop began expanding its influence more prominently into other genres.

A lot of producers began to show their Trip-Hop influence with several albums that came out in the early 2000s.

Extraction of natural gas began in the 2000s.

In the late 2000s, Vanuatu began to strengthen its relations with Cuba.

The 2000s was a decade that began on January 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2009.

In December 2009, the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) announced that the 2000s may have been the warmest decade since records began in 1850, with four of the five warmest years since 1850 having occurred in this decade.

In the 2000s, the Weiquan movement began in the PRC, seeking to advance citizens ' rights partly by petitioning for enforcement of existing laws, and partly through activism.

With the Diamond Rio player in 1998, the mass market began to eschew physical media in favor of file-based systems, rendering cassette-and disc-based formats obsolete by the end of the 2000s.

ABC Radio began using the SEDAT satellite distribution system in the mid-1980s, switching to Starguide in the early 2000s.