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The Hong Kong Government has also set up the Hong Kong Tourism Board with offices in other countries and regions to promote tourism.
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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
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After its brick-by-brick relocation to Stanley, the site was sold by the Government for " only HK $ 1 billion " in August 1982 amidst growing concern over the future of Hong Kong in the run-up to the transfer of sovereignty.
* Sir Mark Evelyn Heath-Diplomat, British Ambassador to Chad ( 1975 – 1978 ), the first British Ambassador to Holy See ( 1982 – 1985 ) and Head of Protocol for the Hong Kong Government ( 1985 – 1988 ).
* The Lands Department of the Government of Hong Kong
The Chief Executive is the head of the special administrative region, and is also the highest-ranking official in the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and is the head of the executive branch.
On 29 January 1999, the Court of Final Appeal, the highest judicial authority in Hong Kong interpreted several Articles of the Basic Law, in such a way that the Government estimated would allow 1. 6 million Mainland China immigrants to enter Hong Kong within ten years.
The NPCSC issued an interpretation in favour of the Hong Kong Government in June 1999, thereby overturning parts of the court decision.
It has become the annual platform for demanding universal suffrage, calling for observance and preservation civil liberties such as free speech, venting dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong Government or the Chief Executive, rallying against actions of the Pro-Beijing camp.
Many in Hong Kong saw this as an adverse impact on one country, two systems, as the Central People's Government interpret the Basic Law to serve its need, that is, a two-year probation for Tsang, instead of a five-year term.
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The territory has nevertheless maintained a Government Flying Service, formerly the Royal Hong Kong Auxiliary Air Force, that is responsible for search and rescue operations, air ambulance services, and other air services for the Hong Kong Government.
It was funded by and was a branch of the Hong Kong Government, under command of the Commander British Forces.
Under the Basic Law of Hong Kong, its diplomatic relations and defence are the responsibility of the Central People's Government of the PRC.
At present, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices under the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in countries that are the major trading partners of Hong Kong, including Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, the United States and the European Union.
These offices serve as the official representative of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR in these countries.
The Hong Kong Government has also a liaison office in Beijing, and an HKETO at Guangzhou, Guangdong.
The Central People's Government of the PRC also maintains a liaison office in Hong Kong.
With the authorisation of the Central People ’ s Government of the PRC, Hong Kong also concluded 12 bilateral agreements with foreign states on air services, investment promotion and protection, mutual legal assistance and visa abolition during the year.
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The Hong Kong-based firm, Hutchison Whampoa, has opened a container port in Freeport.
The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.
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.
References to cannibalizing the enemy has also been seen in poetry written in the Song Dynasty, ( for example, in Man Jiang Hong ) although the cannibalizing is perhaps poetic symbolism, expressing hatred towards the enemy.
They were once used by Chinese mathematicians, and later in Chinese markets, such as those in Hong Kong before the 1990s, but has been gradually supplanted by the Arabic numerals.
The CWC has been held every two years since 2001, and to date the competition has been held in Japan, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany and Hong Kong.
The DTMB standard has been adopted in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), including Hong Kong and Macau.
Erkes 1950 ) has a preface written by Ge Xuan (, 164-244 AD ), granduncle of Ge Hong, and scholarship dates this version to around the 3rd century AD.
In China it has CFDA approval and over 180 treatment centres have been established in China, Hong Kong, and Korea.
Hong Kong has 263 islands over 500 m < sup > 2 </ sup >, including Hong Kong Island, Lantau Island, Cheung Chau, Lamma Island, Peng Chau and Tsing Yi Island.
Despite its small size, Hong Kong has a relatively large number of mineral occurrences.
Offshore sand bodies have been dredged for aggregate sand and reclamation fill in Hong Kong as the rate of urban development has increased.
Hong Kong has one of the world ’ s lowest birth rates — 0. 9 per woman of child-bearing age, far below the replacement rate of 2. 1.
In accordance with Article 31 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong has Special Administrative Region status, which provides constitutional guarantees for implementing the policy of " one country, two systems ".
As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade, and the currency, Hong Kong dollar, is the ninth most traded currency in the world.
Hong Kong has remained as the world's freest economy, according to Index of Economic Freedom since the inception of the index in 1995.
Hong Kong's gross domestic product, between 1961 and 1997, has grown 180 times while per capita GDP rose by 87 times.
Hong Kong has also had an abundant supply of labour from the region nearby.
As of 2006, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing ( HKEX ) has an average daily turnover of 33. 4 billion dollars, which is 12 times that of Shanghai.
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